Seattle is switching gears from sharrows on
busy streets to neighborhood greenways.
(Photo:
Will Vanlue/BikePortland)
Here's the news that caught our eyes this past week...
- After telling a crowd at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting that it's, "very unlikely we will have a surface transportation bill during this year of Congress," USDOT Sec. Ray LaHood has changed his tune. He now, says "things are moving."
- San Francisco has started construction of a separated bikeway in Golden Gate Park on John F. Kennedy Drive. The bikeway is one component of San Francisco's planned crosstown bikeway network which they hope will include 100 miles of connecting facilities by 2020.
- Chicago's new coffee and bike shop, the Heritage Bicycles General Store, is now open. Along with looking like it could have been lifted from a Portland neighborhood, the shop will smell like Portland too: Heritage serves Stumptown coffee.
- Christine Grant lived in the world's most bike-friendly cities for six months and brought back 10 lessons for the Pacific Northwest in how we could make our cities better for bicycles.
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