FOR A magazine assignment more than a decade ago, I picked up a noted expert on commercial architecture and design at a hotel in Savannah and we drove south on […]
John Bennett
John Bennett is Safety Education Programs Manager at Georgia Bikes.
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College Guide: Thanks for riding your bike!
You never have to feed parking meters, pay parking citations or fork over cash to retrieve your car from impound. You won’t be late for class because you couldn’t find a parking place. You will discover lovely and fascinating parts of Savannah that you’d never notice from inside a car.
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Battle brewing over the ‘need for speed’
As of the six-month mark (ending June 30, 2015) there were a total of 662 traffic fatalities in Georgia — 114 more than the first half of last year.
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New tool will help recover stolen bikes in Savannah
Bike Index offers a simple way for owners to enter information about their bicycles, including photographs, online. If a person’s bike is taken, he or she can use the site to tag it as stolen, after filing a police report.
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Preservation study shows trouble in paradise
What the ‘Beyond Tourism’ report calls “emerging quality of life criteria,” were regarded very differently up until around 50 years ago, before we began reconfiguring our built environment exclusively around the needs of automobiles.
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Trails & Tribulations
Only 26 percent of streets in Savannah have sidewalks on one or both sides and most of those are in historic neighborhoods.
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‘Nudge him a bit’
THE CORRIDORS of Connect Savannah were abuzz last week. What was causing all the commotion? The fourth anniversary of the News Cycle column! Or maybe everyone was excited about the […]
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Matt’s Moon River Cruise continues focus on safer streets
The event is named for Matt Kohler, who was hit from behind and killed by a driver in Bloomingdale in 2012.
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Earth Day events highlight art & science of bicycling
Earth Day Wheelie was first major Savannah Bicycle Campaign event
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The car doesn’t have to be the ruler of Pooler
The crime card is frequently played, not just to argue against transit, but also to ward off bike trails and even sidewalks.
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Safer streets aren’t just about fighting crime
The details of crashes that kill and injure people on bikes or on foot differ, however, there is a common denominator. Most occur on streets configured to maximize motor vehicle speed and throughput.