Grumman has designed and built many American fighter aircraft and the Apollo Lunar Module, and unsuccessfully bid on the Space Shuttle contract. The company also created the Long Life Vehicle, which we all know as the U.S. Postal Service truck. Those toy-like, right-hand driving, blue-and-white…
I lived in Michigan for a year and let me just say that their winter roads are always clear. And a lot of their older cars are rusted. I was driving a 1991 Subaru Loyale at the time and more than one person asked to...
New York. San Francisco. Boston. Philadelphia. Miami. Not Spokane.
Later this year, a new bridge will span the Willamette River in Portland. Portland, like Spokane, is a bridge city, so any new bridge is notable. This one - called the Tilikum Crossing - is especially interesting, as it allows every mode of transport to...
Who loves the intersection at 4th and Maple? No one. That's who. But the city is beginning work on the intersection's traffic signals this morning, which will help ease the traffic congestion. According to the city: Currently, the eastbound and westbound signal phases operate simultaneously....
Washington state's Commute Trip Reduction program is working. That's the word from a post on the Atlantic's CityLab blog, which called the program to encourage commuters to get out of their cars "a model for the nation." According to the post: As much as people...
Spokane City Councilwoman Candace Mumm received a Walkable Washington Innovation Award this week for her work on a crosswalk ordinance the council adopted last year. At the time the law was passed, Mumm said she hoped to make pedestrian infrastructure a priority for the city....
; "You own a car, not the street. The street belongs to all of us. This is not a war. It's a city." That quote appears at the end of the film Bikes vs. Cars, by Swedish filmmaker Frederik Gertten - a seemingly polemical documentary...
This year will see the completion of Spokane's Downtown Bike Network, a loop and spurs of bikeways for the city's core. For the past few years, downtown cyclists have been able to ride on a few bike lanes and shared roadways (and the infamous "sharrows"),...
This week, I wrote an article about bikes and pavement, and all the new bikeways coming to town this year. In the story, I told of planned Cincinnati Greenway, first of three greenways the city is considering designating in coming years. For those unaware, a...
Finally, Google has mingled my childhood nostalgia with my map obsession by letting us play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Yes, it's awesome running from or chasing ghosts around the South Hill's tangle of streets around Cliff Park, Browne's Addition, Corbin Park, or just about anywhere....
In today's paper, we had an article looking at all the new bikeways coming to Spokane this year. We told you of the Addison-Standard bike corridor and the Cincinnati Greenway. We wrote of the Ben Burr Trail and Downtown Bike Network. But where are those...
A documentary coming this summer is all about the People's Car. The one designed by the Nazis. The one my mom drove around for the first ten years of my life. The inimitable Bug. It's called The Bug Movie and I can't wait, for multiple...
If you haven't heard, there's a highway being built on Spokane's eastside that some people, like those at the state Department of Transportation, call the North Spokane Corridor. Other people call it the North-South Freeway. If the Spokane City Council gets its way, we'll soon...
Wall Street is the cobblestone street in downtown Spokane, where buses, pedestrians, a ton of Jimmy John's cyclists and delivery trucks peacefully co-exist. There are very few signs telling people what to do in their respective transits, yet somehow the street is a pleasant place...
In our first installment of Flyday, where we put up videos of people going way too fast, we have this video from the Valparaiso Cerro Abajo 2013. (This illustrates how I feel riding down South Lincoln Street and into downtown Spokane.)
Bike to Work week is still a couple of months away, but its organizers are well underway to make sure everything works out splendidly. This year marks the eighth year of the week-long event, which features group rides, commute tutorials, a silent ride for cyclists…
Standing at corner once served by cable cars, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his plan Wednesday to ask voters to approve a $900 million transportation levy this fall. According to the Seattle Times, the mayor's Move Seattle plan focuses mainly on non-car transit, including a…
As a cyclist who doesn't wear a watch, I sometimes see red at red lights. I mean, come on, I have somewhere to be and I'm probably late! Drivers surely can sympathize. One thing folks in vehicles don't experience is an overly, at times interminable,...
As road construction season commences in Spokane, let's remember a time when roads were something less than they are now.
They were once the only form of mass transit, but do streetcars have a future? The New York Times suggests no, they don't, after Arlington, Virginia and the District of Columbia dropped plans for their streetcar networks. "Just a few years ago, the streetcar revival...
The Seattle Transit Blog took another turn at talking up Spokane's transit plans today, this time with a post praising the proposed Central City Line. The CCL, as I'll call it here because it's easier to type, is one of the many ideas in Spokane...
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