by meg | Feb 4, 2017 | Built Environment, Ideas from elsewhere, Planning & Design, Transportation
For the past few years I’ve been attending a conference in February called Saving Places. While historic preservation is the main focus of the event, a wide variety of urban development topics tend to surface including local economics, place building, and...
by meg | Jun 13, 2016 | Bikes & Peds, Ideas from elsewhere, Transportation
This summer my family took an “Our Nation’s History” tour of Washington DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. (We’ll have to go back another time to hit New York City and Boston.) While we traveled about from museum to historic site to the next...
by meg | Jun 5, 2016 | Bikes & Peds, Ideas from elsewhere, Transportation
My family and I just spent the past week in our nation’s capital. We had a wonderful time and are missing it already. While there, I snapped several photos of what traveling around Washington DC is like for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users. Given that...
by meg | Feb 8, 2016 | Ideas from elsewhere, Infrastructure, Transportation
Last week I attended a tour of the historic Five Points neighborhood in Denver, where I snapped photos of a bike shop and the light rail line (as well as several pictures of old buildings). And while at a historic preservation conference at the Denver Convention...
by meg | Jan 1, 2016 | Ideas from elsewhere
Bicycle related articles from the past month “Germany opens first stretch of bicycle ‘autobahn’,” by Alex Bowden in Road.cc. (29 Dec 2015) “AFP reports that Germany has just opened the first 5km stretch of a traffic-free bicycle highway that is set...
by meg | Nov 30, 2015 | Ideas from elsewhere
Bicycle related articles from the past month “Why do drivers hate cyclists?”, an interview between Jim Brown and Ian Walker on “The 180” on CBCRadio. (November 1, 2015) The long and short of it? Motorists that don’t bicycle don’t...
