In 1899, a madman/visionary/cyclist/entrepreneur named Horace Dobbins dreamed up an idea to build a nine-mile long bike highway in the middle of Southern California. It didn't work, but its idea presaged the highways we know today - those for motorists. Gizmodo tells the tale of…
Last weekend I bought a bike. I didn't intend on buying this particular bike, it was just sitting in the rack at Goodwill, but it was only $29 and I'm a sucker for a good thrift store deal. Here is my tale.
Bruce Nourish over at the Seattle Transit Blog has weighed in again on Spokane's transit system, this time with a post about Spokane Transit Authority's long-term plan for high performance transit. If you're unfamiliar with that term, it basically means frequent, all day transit service...
A third of urban highways in Washington are in poor condition, a quarter of the state's bridges are structurally deficient or obsolete and the state transportation department faces a backlog of $1.8 billion backlog in "pavement preservation," according to a report released this week by...
If you've ever walked around downtown Spokane, you won't be surprised to hear that the sidewalks are broken. Like really broken, deteriorating and hazardous, especially if you've got your nose buried in your smartphone. It may surprise you to hear that there's $40 million worth of repair...
Grumman has designed and built many American fighter aircraft and the Apollo Lunar Module, and unsuccessfully bid on the Space Shuttle contract. The company also created the Long Life Vehicle, which we all know as the U.S. Postal Service truck. Those toy-like, right-hand driving, blue-and-white…
I lived in Michigan for a year and let me just say that their winter roads are always clear. And a lot of their older cars are rusted. I was driving a 1991 Subaru Loyale at the time and more than one person asked to...
New York. San Francisco. Boston. Philadelphia. Miami. Not Spokane.
Later this year, a new bridge will span the Willamette River in Portland. Portland, like Spokane, is a bridge city, so any new bridge is notable. This one - called the Tilikum Crossing - is especially interesting, as it allows every mode of transport to...
Who loves the intersection at 4th and Maple? No one. That's who. But the city is beginning work on the intersection's traffic signals this morning, which will help ease the traffic congestion. According to the city: Currently, the eastbound and westbound signal phases operate simultaneously....
Washington state's Commute Trip Reduction program is working. That's the word from a post on the Atlantic's CityLab blog, which called the program to encourage commuters to get out of their cars "a model for the nation." According to the post: As much as people...
Spokane City Councilwoman Candace Mumm received a Walkable Washington Innovation Award this week for her work on a crosswalk ordinance the council adopted last year. At the time the law was passed, Mumm said she hoped to make pedestrian infrastructure a priority for the city....
; "You own a car, not the street. The street belongs to all of us. This is not a war. It's a city." That quote appears at the end of the film Bikes vs. Cars, by Swedish filmmaker Frederik Gertten - a seemingly polemical documentary...
This year will see the completion of Spokane's Downtown Bike Network, a loop and spurs of bikeways for the city's core. For the past few years, downtown cyclists have been able to ride on a few bike lanes and shared roadways (and the infamous "sharrows"),...
This week, I wrote an article about bikes and pavement, and all the new bikeways coming to town this year. In the story, I told of planned Cincinnati Greenway, first of three greenways the city is considering designating in coming years. For those unaware, a...
Finally, Google has mingled my childhood nostalgia with my map obsession by letting us play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Yes, it's awesome running from or chasing ghosts around the South Hill's tangle of streets around Cliff Park, Browne's Addition, Corbin Park, or just about anywhere....
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