• Pedestrians Checklist and Considerations for Temporary Traffic Control Zones - web page
• Accomodating Pedestrians in Work Zones - pamphlet

What do you all think of these?

I feel biking and bikers make people look at the streets as a community front yard and promote crime reduction and more vibrance in the people of the cities.

-Clayton Allen Keibler,
 Louisville, KY

Bicyclists on Main Street, Louisville KY

Transit

• Trying to pick up the pieces after Doomsday, St Louis voters again consider a transit sales tax - Streetsblog
• First major politician calls for 220 mph high speed rail in the midwest - IL Gov Pat Quinn - video - Midwest HSR
• Everyone wants more TIGER grants in the jobs bill - is the Senate listening? - Streetsblog
• 2009 a terrible year for freight rail - Streetsblog
• Baltimore creates new, free transit with parking revenue - Streetsblog
• Louisville's Incredible Elevated Rapid Transit Trains - Broken Sidewalk
• "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs"? According to Congress, transit creates twice as many jobs per $ as highways - Streetsblog

Motoring

• Talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as driving drunk; texting is worse yet - BikeLeague blog
• Americans believe Congress is raising gas taxes constantly. We should be so lucky. - How We Drive
• Video - the high cost of free parking - Human Transit
• Urban Speed Zones in England cut traffic deaths 41.9% - How We Drive
• Americans junk more cars than they buy - Streetsblog
• Your WunderCar will not save the planet - Streetsblog

Walking

• Woman in wheelchair killed while using crosswalk by turning truck. Driver "just didn't see her" - WHAS
• Self Sufficency: the conservative case for bicycling and walking - Streetsblog

Biking

• Bicycling hits 1% of all trips! - BikeLeague blog
• Bejing reverses course, moves to promote bicycling - Streetsblog

HB1182 - Complete Streets - passes in house 90-4.  
Next stop: the Senate!

Congratulations, Indiana Bicycle Coalition!!

The press release, reproduced in full:

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Steve Beshear today announced that the Federal Railroad Administration has approved a $250,000 grant to study the feasibility of high-speed passenger service on a rail corridor that includes Louisville.

Gov. Beshear joined with Govs. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee and Sonny Perdue of Georgia in supporting a study of the corridor that runs from Chicago to Atlanta, through Louisville and Nashville, Tenn.

“Our goal, ultimately, is to see the national high-speed rail system revised and enhanced to include this corridor,” Gov. Beshear said. “We believe this would correct an omission in the nationwide network – especially in terms of a continuous passenger rail corridor from Chicago to Florida.”

You may have seen our previous article about Moscow's wild dogs learning to use the subway. That article was from The Sun, a british tabloid, so we discounted it as a hoax. However, this article at Popular Science seems to support the earlier story.

"[B]eggar dogs have evolved the most specialized behavior. Relying on scraps of food from commuters, the beggar dogs can not only recognize which humans are most likely to give them something to eat, but have evolved to ride the subway. Using scents, and the ability to recognize the train conductor's names for different stops, they incorporate many stations into their territories.

The Alliance for Biking & Walking's Benchmarking Project is an ongoing effort to collect and analyze data on bicycling and walking in all 50 states and at least the 50 largest cities. They have just released their 2010 report. How does our region stack up?

= top third of states/cities (good)
= middle third of states/cities
= worst third of states/cities (bad)

	Mode Share	Safety	Funding	Staffing	Bike/Ped policies	Advocacy Capacity
Louisville
Indianapolis
Nashville				no data
Kentucky						no data
Indiana
Ohio

My take on this below the fold...

In the ranking for the top 50 car-free cities, there appears to be three main factors at hand. These factors include the age of the city, the poverty rate, and the prescence of a large university. Check out where cities ranked at wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_households_without_a_car

Update: new information from Tom Armstrong - click through.

Kentucky Representative David Osbourne has introduced a bill that would prohibit the transportation of people under the age of 18 in a bicycle trailer or "other apparatus."

The text of the bill is quite short and doesn't provide much specific information. However, what details are available can be found on the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission's website.  No one seems to know what prompted this bill's creation or what the likelihood is that it might pass and become law.

As more infomation becomes available, I will share it with cartky.org readers.

Thank you to Michael Jones, Doric Real Estate, Tom Owen, and Public Works for somehow managing to get the sidewalk clear two and a half weeks early! We really appreciate it!

Photo: Public Works