A few weeks ago on this blog, Felipe pointed out how incomplete streets are more than just an inconvenience for some people. For people like Lance, who rely on active transportation for exercise or just simple mobility, designing and maintaining our roads and sidewalks to accommodate everyone is the difference between being able to get [...]
Posts under ‘US Department of Transportation’
Americans Want Transportation Options
Since the US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that bicycling and walking were indeed forms of transportation whose proponents were worthy of consideration, the country’s ‘transportation’ lobby has largely responded with fury, hostility and name-calling, the likes of which almost merit comparison to Miami politics. Sec. LaHood has responded to all of this [...]
Sunset Drive: Driving Out Sensible Citizen Input
Just One Option FDOT Shelved
Have you traveled along Sunset Drive recently? Between SW 84 Place and SW 69 Avenue – right by three elementary schools, historic places of worship, a beautiful public park and several shops and restaurants – FDOT is pushing through a project without consideration of public opinion, the needs of the adjacent [...]
Tragedy on Our Streets – What You Can Do
This morning, an unidentified man was killed while riding his bicycle in a bicycle lane here in South Florida. We don’t know who the victim was, but we do know a little about his alleged killer.
The Miami Herald and MiamiBikeScene report that he is Carlos Bertonatti, a young twenty-something independent musician and Key Biscayne resident. [...]
2009 MUTCD Is Here
Now you’re probably asking, what’s the MUTCD? The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices sets the standards for striping, signage, and signalization across the country. If a traffic control feature you want is not in there, you’ll have a hard time getting it installed on your road. The US Department of Transportation just released a [...]
Obama’s Potential Secretary of Transportation
Many news sites have listed potential candidates that Obama may choose for cabinet positions. Since we’re most interested in the position of Secretary of Transportation, who might he choose for that all important post?
The Sun-Sentinel has R.T. Ryback, Mayor of Minneapolis, Representative James Oberstar from Minnesota, Ed Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania, and Representative Earl Blumenauer [...]
The week in transit
A lot happened this week behind the scenes and between the lines. Here is a review:
Kudos to this editorial today from El Nuevo Herald columnist Daniel Shoer Roth. I think he did an excellent job in highlighting how mismanaged our transit system is. Accountability goes out the window when ten different departments and municipalities are [...]
USDOT Blogs
Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters entered the blogosphere on April 29 with a blog called the Fast Lane. Looks like FHWA, FTA, and other DOT officials will also contribute to the blog. Comments are allowed on the blog, so they are interested in a two-way conversation.
It is good to see transportation officials embracing modern [...]
People Mover Systems: The Jacksonville Skyway
I had the opportunity this past weekend to finally ride one the nation’s three downtown fully automated people mover systems in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville skyway, is the most recently completed of the three automated systems (the others being in Miami and Detroit) opening up fully to the public in November of 2000. Like [...]
