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		<title>Cartoon Tuesday: Bike to Work Day</title>
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Bike to Work Day is Friday, May 16. Check Transportation Alternatives' Bike Month site for events. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/13/cartoon-tuesday-bike-to-work-day/</link>
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		<title>Streetfilm: The Diverter</title>
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&#160;From Streetfilms' animation division comes the third installment of traffic-calming shorts from Elizabeth Press. First she brought you chicanes, then the raised crosswalk. Now comes the diverter, which Elizabeth explains like so:Diagonal diverters, half closures, entrance barriers, median barriers,
semi-diverters; traffic calming techniques come in all shapes and
sizes. They can help ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/13/streetfilm-the-diverter/</link>
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		<title>Bus Rapid Transit Under Fire in Delhi, India</title>
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As a new class of automobile owners floods the streets of India with cheap cars, the city of Delhi is trying to stem the tide with a new Bus Rapid Transit program. Unfortunately, along with the cars has come the requisite sense of entitlement and modal prejudice, as EMBARQ reports:

This ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/13/bus-rapid-transit-under-fire-in-delhi-india/</link>
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		<title>Ken Coughlin, Leading Car-Free Park Activist, Suffers Heart Attack</title>
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Ken Coughlin, occasional Streetsblog contributor, long-time coordinator of Transportation Alternatives' Car-Free Central Park campaign and all-around mensch suffered a heart attack on Saturday. T.A. board member Jeff Prant and executive director Paul Steely White visited Ken at St. Lukes Roosevelt on the Upper West Side on Sunday. They say he's ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/13/ken-coughlin-leading-car-free-park-activist-suffers-heart-attack/</link>
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		<title>Got a Cycling Question for DOT? Ask Josh Benson.</title>
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Getting in on the Bike Month action, City Room has DOT bike program coordinator Josh Benson answering reader questions this week. As of this writing, over 100 comments have come in since the thread opened yesterday afternoon. While many concern the usual stuff -- cars encroaching into bike lanes, problems ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/13/got-a-cycling-question-for-dot-ask-josh-benson/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
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City Motorists Contemplate $5/Gal Gas; Many Turn to Transit (Post, News)Assembly Republican Jim Tedisco Takes Gas Tax &#34;Fight&#34; Online&#160;Bike-Share Coming to Convention Host Cities (USA Today)DOT Bike Coordinator Takes Questions (City Room)Staten Islanders Talk Cycling Safety (SI Advance) Vehicular Cycling Advocate Blames Lanes for Fatalities (BikePortland)&#160;Bloomberg and Schumer Spar Over ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/13/todays-headlines-402/</link>
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		<title>Cleveland Indians Ace Cliff Lee: The Southpaw Straphanger</title>
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Cliff Lee's $4 million arm hangs from a subway strap. 

With a 6-0 won-loss record and a 0.81 earned run average, Cleveland Indians southpaw Cliff Lee is, for the moment, the hottest pitcher in Major League Baseball. HIs delivery is so smooth, so perfect looking, it's hard not to think ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/12/cleveland-indians-ace-cliff-lee-the-southpaw-straphanger/</link>
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		<title>Historic Town Chooses to &#8220;Retain Its Charm&#8221; By Enabling Sprawl</title>
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On Friday, Streetsblog looked at how northern Virginia can't get enough road widening. As a follow-up, Gary Toth of Project for Public Spaces directed us to another example of how smart growth faces hurdles in the places that need it most -- in this case, the Trenton suburb of Bordentown, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/12/trenton-burb-chooses-to-retain-its-charm-by-enabling-sprawl/</link>
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		<title>Streetfilms Looking for Freelancers</title>
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With an enormous number of livable
streets stories and activities on the horizon in NYC this summer,
Streetfilms will be looking for help. So if you are very good with a
camera, know transportation issues and are familiar with the current
momentum of livable streets, send us your deets! The process to apply
is here;
as ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/12/streetfilms-looking-for-freelancers/</link>
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		<title>A Bridge and Tunnel Transit Solution</title>
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Historically, East River bridges have carried more transit -- and more people -- than they do today. View a larger version of this image.Last week, Cap'n Transit posted a series about running express bus lanes over bridges and tunnels, which would boost the capacity of crossings and put them on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/12/a-bridge-and-tunnel-transit-solution/</link>
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		<title>Eyes on the Street: A Death-Defying Walk to Prospect Park</title>
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The bloggers at Hawthorne Street put together this dandy little short -- you could even call it a Streetfilm -- to illustrate the dangers of crossing Ocean Avenue at the southeast entrance to Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Cars turning onto Ocean from Parkside Avenue pose a constant threat to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/12/eyes-on-the-street-a-death-defying-walk-to-the-park/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
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High Gas Prices Lead More Commuters to Opt for Transit and Biking (NYT, AP)Krugman: There Is No 'Oil Bubble'NYT: Time to Rethink EthanolTransit Improvements, 1,400 Parking Spots to Accompany Red Hook IKEA (Post)Viability of Rockaway Ferry Service Far From Certain (News)Hudson Yards Negotiation May Resume (Crain's, Sun)Hit-and-Run Drag Racer Turns ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/12/todays-headlines-401/</link>
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		<title>Streetfilm: Snackin&#8217; and Schwaggin&#8217; in Queens</title>
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Community board intransigence aside, cyclists abound in Queens, where Transportation Alternatives set up shop this week to hand out Bike Month snacks and schwag to commuters coming off the Queensborough Bridge. Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was there. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/09/streetfilm-snackin-and-schwaggin-in-queens/</link>
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		<title>Northern Virginia Locked In to Congested Roads</title>
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Suburbanites in northern Virginia are finding their streets more clogged with traffic than ever, and, as the Washington Post reported earlier this week, they aren't about to get bailed out by road-widening projects. Here's the crux of the problem, told from the Post reporter's decidedly windshield perspective: Thoroughfares like Rolling ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/09/northern-virginia-locked-in-to-congested-roads/</link>
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		<title>Beam Me Across the Street, Scotty</title>
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&#160;From online mag Yanko Design comes a wacked out concept in pedestrian safety:

The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren't powerful enough to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/09/beam-me-across-the-street-scotty/</link>
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		<title>CB2 Chairman Punts Queens Greenway Vote Over Loss of Parking</title>
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From Transportation Alternatives' Queens Committee Chair Mike Heffron: 

At the Queens Community Board 2 general meeting on Thursday, May 1, with no vote by board members, Chair Joe Conley delayed the board's input on the Department of Transportation's planned pedestrian and cyclist improvements to Vernon Boulevard, an important link ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/09/queens-cb-2-chair-unilaterally-delays-vernon-boulevard-upgrades/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Headlines</title>
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Hudson Yards Development Deal Hits a Snag (NYT, Sun, Post, NY1)Health Advocates Target Idlers (Metro)TLC to Crack Down on Illegal Fares for Black Cars (Post)Cab Fleets Want to Hang on to Crown Vics (News, Post)Straphangers Campaign Releases 'Ten Plagues of the Subway' (AMNY)Hit-and-Run Dragster Kills 5-Year-Old Passenger (News, Post)MTA Consolidates ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/09/todays-headlines-400/</link>
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		<title>How Happy Are Parisians With Vélib?</title>
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&#160;
The latest figures from the Paris Vélib bike sharing program are in. User stats and survey results are posted on the official web site, but for those who don't parlez Français, here's a summary:Rides to date: 20 millionAverage trips/day: 70,000Average trip time: 18 minutes190,000 annual pass holders42% of users are ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/08/how-happy-are-parisians-with-velib/</link>
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		<title>Video Contest Seeks Winning Pitch for Transit</title>
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Attention aspiring Streetfilm directors: U.S. PIRG has noticed that transit doesn't seem to be on the radar of most pols, so it's enlisting the YouTube generation to help lawmakers see the light. From the U.S. PIRG website:Are you tired of being stuck in traffic? Shouldn’t we ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/08/video-contest-seeks-winning-pitch-for-transit/</link>
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		<title>Streetfilm: City Officials Talk Up Bike Month</title>
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In contrast -- or, conceivably, as a complement -- to the L.A. Times portrait of city cycling, here's a Streetfilm from Elizabeth Press, shot yesterday at Transportation Alternatives' Bike Month NYC kick-off. At a press conference held in the new 14th Street plaza, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan talks about present ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/08/streetfilm-city-officials-talk-up-bike-month/</link>
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