From today’s Energy and Environment Daily (03/19/2009) Josh Voorhees, E&E reporter Creating “livable communities” by linking transportation planning with housing development is a top priority of the Obama administration, two of the president’s Cabinet members told lawmakers yesterday. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan told House appropriators of their
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From today’s ClimateWire MASS TRANSIT: Carrying more riders and getting less money, urban systems seek help (03/18/2009) Saqib Rahim, E&E reporter In two weeks, the van will stop coming. And at that point, Bren Pathenos doesn’t know how her son will get to work. Her son, 30-year-old William Jenkins, has cerebral palsy, a brain condition
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From Today’s Environment and Energy Daily (03/13/2009) Josh Voorhees, E&E reporter Increasing mass transit options around the country is a priority as the nation moves toward more sustainable transportation and land use, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told lawmakers yesterday. “To me, it is clear that our transportation system and the development it enables must be
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From Energy & Environment Daily(03/12/2009) Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Cycling advocates and their allies in Congress are fighting to ensure that provisions for biking projects will be included in the next federal transportation authorization bill. Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), a longtime supporter of bicyclists, has pledged to carve out provisions in the bill to provide
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Our guys at the bike summit! Good job! From today’s Energy & Environment Daily: Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Hundreds of bicycling advocates at the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C., are lobbying lawmakers to support projects they say will help the environment, create jobs and improve public health. “We have an opportunity that is unparalleled,”
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If  you didn’t join us last night for our advocacy meeting, you missed out on a great meeting!  We had a lively discussion about the proposed three-foot legislation and whether or not it would help cyclists in any way.  Those in attendence were generally in agreement that the current laws pertaining to cyclists don’t really
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The Providence Business News posted a recent article on the redesign plans for the Pawtucket I-95 bridge that’s caused so much trouble as of late.  One paragraph in particular caught my attention: To avoid a “dark and dreary” atmosphere such as that pedestrians encounter beneath the existing bridge, he noted, the task force spent a
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RIDOT published their list of projects to be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  This list includes the following bike related projects: Westminster St. Streetscape from I-95 Service Road No. 7 to Olneyville Square/Manton Ave./Plainfield St. (1.3 miles), which includes sidewalks, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, street trees and street lighting.  (Providence) Repair sidewalks on
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