[sustran] Citizen proejcts adn programs to helpguide city policiees

Eric Britton eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Wed Mar 14 18:59:32 JST 2007


Thanks Sean Roche for the heads-up on this excellent initiative of
Streetsblog and Aaron Naparstek, which we copy below in full text in the
hope of getting yet further additions.

My hope is that you will not only mail your leads here but that you will
also go to
http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in-
cities-outside-nyc/
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/>  to add them there as well.

For our part, we are in the process of developing a set of related links,
which you can find today if you go to the Agenda at http://newmobility.org
and click the link Citizens Speak Out at the top of the left menu. Your
thoughts and suggestions on all this are more than welcome.

Eric Britton



Help us Find Livable Streets Blogs in Cities Outside NYC
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/>

We are interested in creating a new feature -- a collection of links to
Streetsblog-ish web sites in other cities around the world. Ideally, this
collection of links will represent the best, most comprehensive, most
readable group of Livable Streets bloggers anywhere.
We could really use the help of the Streetsblog online community to build
this collection. If you know of a site that fits the bill, or if you
wouldn't mind spending a few minutes poking around online to find some good
potential sites in specific cities, please do. Just add your finds to the
comment section.

Here are some starter links to give you a sense of the kinds of sites we've
been finding so far...
Boston:
http://newtonstreets.blogspot.com
http://www.livablestreets.info
Toronto:
http://bikingtoronto.blogspot.com
Portland:
http://www.bikeportland.org
Cleveland:
http://www.gcbl.org
Washington DC:
http://washcycle.typepad.com
http://pedshed.net <http://pedshed.net>
San Fran:
http://bikecommutetips.blogspot.com
Berkeley:
http://www.localecology.org/localecologist
Miami:
http://www.transitmiami.blogspot.com
London:
http://www.kingscrossenvironment.com
Vancouver:
http://sfucity.wordpress.com/about/ <http://sfucity.wordpress.com/about/%20>
Filed by Aaron Naparstek <http://www.streetsblog.org/author/aaron/>  under
Livable Streets
<http://www.streetsblog.org/category/issues-campaigns/livable-streets/> ,
Pinned <http://www.streetsblog.org/category/pinned/>
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( latest by Fran Taylor
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-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29842> )
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23 Comments (leave a comment)
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1.       Here's a good one from Edinburgh, Scotland:
http://cyclingedinburgh.wordpress.com/
And, they're not blogs, but here are a couple sites from Scotland's biggest
city, Glasgow:
http://www.sustrans.org.uk
www.gobike.org/ <http://www.gobike.org/>
Comment by ddartley — February 22, 2007 @ 10:48 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29203>
2.       Atlanta, Georgia:
http://peds.org
Savannah, Georgia:
http://www.pacesavannah.org
Comment by john <http://bikeyear.blogspot.com/>  — February 22, 2007 @ 11:06
am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29204>
3.       From Berkeley:
http://www.preservenet.com/freeways/
Comment by Clarence <http://deleted>  — February 22, 2007 @ 11:56 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29209>
4.       Also from Portland, Oregon
http://www.portlandtransport.com
Comment by nuovorecord — February 22, 2007 @ 12:03 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29210>
5.       Not exactly localized, but This Place Is...
<http://www.thisplaceis.com/>  covers "people-centered place design."
Shin-pei from Bird to the North <http://northbird.blogspot.com>  just
started blogging for them about NYC public spaces.
Comment by Nick <http://www.wrkng.net>  — February 22, 2007 @ 12:29 pm |
Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29213>
6.       Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://www.wowflutter.com
Comment by sjt — February 22, 2007 @ 12:57 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29217>
7.       SF used to have San Francisco Cityscape (sfcityscape.org) which was
terrific until they stopped blogging and became a discussion forum. I'm
still looking for a good replacement one (the one you list is a bike blog
written by someone in SF but it doesn't seem to be about local SF issues in
particular).
DC has Richard Layman's Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
(http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/) and Beyond DC
(http://beyonddc.com/log)
It'd be nice to distinguish between bike blogs and more general livable
streets blogs. Streetsblog is great because it covers development, parking,
walking, transit, and biking, and everything from policy decisions in City
Hall to specific neighborhood incidents. Some of the blogs listed above are
just about how to pedal around the cities, which is great but less broad,
while others are more similar to StreetsBlog.
Comment by David Alpert <http://alpie.net/>  — February 22, 2007 @ 1:47 pm |
Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29220>
8.       (Oops, SF Cityscape is actually sfcityscape.com not .org).
Comment by David Alpert <http://alpie.net/>  — February 22, 2007 @ 1:51 pm |
Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29221>
9.       Los Angeles:
http://www.cicle.org/wordpress/
http://www.bike-los-angeles.com/ (looks to be just getting started)
Haven't found pedestrian or public space-focused blogs yet but I will keep
looking.
Comment by keri — February 22, 2007 @ 1:52 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29222>
10.   Yeah, that's kind of the challenge, David -- trying to find the blogs
that go beyond just being about bicycling. But I'm still interested in
getting links to the good bike blogs. So feel free to post those too.
Comment by Aaron Naparstek <http://www.streetsblog.org>  — February 22, 2007
@ 1:56 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29223>
11.   New Jersey (getting started)
http://walkbikejersey.blogspot.com/
Comment by keri — February 22, 2007 @ 2:05 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29224>
12.   San Francisco:
http://livablecity.org/path.html
Comment by carrie <http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org>  — February 22, 2007 @
5:35 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29253>
13.   It's an honor to be "Streetsblog-ish" -- thanks! Another great DC-area
blog is Rethink College Park: http://www.rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/. They
get into a lot of design details and development politics too. College Park
is small, but may have some useful lessons for other college towns.
Comment by Laurence Aurbach <http://pedshed.net>  — February 22, 2007 @ 7:21
pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29263>
14.   Kansas City, Missouri
KCBike.Info - http://kcbike.info
Clearing the Air - http://bikefriendlykc.blogspot.com/
Comment by eric <http://kcbike.info>  — February 23, 2007 @ 10:53 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29282>
15.   Thanks for the link... a really good one based in Toronto is the
Spacing Wire (http://spacing.ca/wire) <http://spacing.ca/wire/>  - "your hub
for daily dispatches from the streets of Toronto to cities around the world,
offering both analysis and a forum for discussion. The Wire covers news,
events, art, architecture, urban planning and just about anything that
involves the public realm of our cities.
Comment by Joe (BikingToronto) <http://www.bikingtoronto.com>  — February
23, 2007 @ 1:14 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29290>
16.   Aaron:
If you'll lower your standard from "good bike blogs" to just "bike blogs,"
I'd like to offer mine to your list.
Comment by John <http://bikeyear.blogspot.com>  — February 24, 2007 @ 9:00
am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29303>
17.   Thessaloniki, Greece (mostly Greek):
http://streetpanthers.blogspot.com/index.html
Comment by James — February 24, 2007 @ 11:15 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29305>
18.   The above post focuses on pedestrian and bicycle issues. You can
translate the site at http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr Choose Greek to
English
Comment by James — February 24, 2007 @ 11:19 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29306>
19.   Seattle:
http://friendsofseattle.typepad.com/blog/
http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/
Comment by Aaron Naparstek <http://www.streetsblog.org>  — February 26, 2007
@ 12:17 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29320>
20.   Actually, Its Just www.TransitMiami.com <http://www.TransitMiami.com>
I got rid of the blogspot address although it will still redirect you to the
proper site...
Comment by Gabriel Lopez-Bernal <http://www.transitmiami.com/>  — March 1,
2007 @ 8:43 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29510>
21.   Another good one from Down Under
www.spinopsys.com <http://www.spinopsys.com>
Comment by Clarence Eckerson Jr. <http://www.biketv.org>  — March 2, 2007 @
2:59 am | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29513>
22.   Philadelphia Bicycle News Blog
http://bcgp.blogspot.com
Comment by John <http://bcgp.blogspot.com>  — March 10, 2007 @ 1:17 pm |
Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29781>
23.   San Francisco
Monthly column on transportation issues:
http://www.missiondispatch.com/news/view_alt_category.html?category_id=406
Comment by Fran Taylor — March 13, 2007 @ 1:41 pm | Link
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/22/help-us-find-livable-streets-blogs-in
-cities-outside-nyc/#comment-29842>

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