When we see a guy doing something stupid on a bicycle, we can at least be glad he’s doing it on a bicycle instead of behind the wheel of a 2-ton SUV.
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Johnny Harris redevelopment presents opportunity
In the words of Fred Kent, founder of the nonprofit Project for Public Spaces, “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic.”
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‘Fixing’ Hwy 80 isn’t the same as four-laning it
The research is clear: Widening lanes increases speeds, causing more crashes. And more of those crashes will be fatal due to higher speeds.
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Transportation issues are part of crime/poverty debate too
If you are struck by a driver, your survival and your family’s financial situation will be uncertain, but one outcome is easy to predict: You will be blamed for crossing outside of the crosswalk, even if it was hundreds of yards away, and for wearing dark clothing, even if the clothing in question is your work uniform.
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Unusual commute is part of an increasingly common trend
Savannah now has the seventh highest rate of bicycle commuting in the South, up from 10th last year.
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Greenway deserves green light
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 […]
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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.