I’ve never turned down an opportunity to talk about how bicycling and walking can make our city safer, healthier, and an altogether better place to live
Bike Walk Savannah
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Cycling and diversity: The larger context
‘You really have to figure out what people enjoy doing already and then give them the opportunity and tools to do it more consistently’
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Remembering Matt Kohler
Georgia state law requires a driver to leave not less than three feet when passing or following someone riding a bike
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Strive for sustainability, not ‘balance’
Too many tourists descending on a destination can degrade and even destroy the cultural, environmental, and historic resources that made it a place people wanted to visit in the first place
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The economic — and political — power of trails
Those working on Savannah’s version of the BeltLine, the Tide to Town urban trail system, would seem to be on the right track by using canal banks for portions of the proposed route
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Widening the transportation focus: Lessons from DC
The annual National Bike Summit, organized by the League of American Bicyclists, attracts advocates, traffic engineers, urban planners, and transportation department officials from all over the country
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If you bike
While Savannah’s bicycling infrastructure is in many ways not as complete or as friendly as it could be, there are some key bike routes
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Tide to Town: An urban trail system for all of Savannah
This “urban trail system” is envisioned as a protected network of walking and bicycling trails connecting all of Savannah’s neighborhoods, from the heart of the city to marshes and tidal creeks
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Trash Warriors, to battle!
Jenna Bower, a self-proclaimed introvert, and Stacey Fuller, who declares herself an extrovert, combined their superpowers last fall to become superheroes
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Victim-blaming in crash coverage
We don’t often find out if the drivers involved were speeding, distracted, or impaired. Instead, the behavior of people who were riding bikes or walking becomes the focus of reporting.
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Bigger vehicles, bigger problems
Last Tuesday I heard the Trolley Problem mentioned by two different people in less than an hour
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Ardsley In Motion provides groundbreaking toolkit for neighborhood improvement
The result is a densely detailed Google Maps document with more than 2,000 site-specific recommendations for individual neighborhood improvements