Getting There archive for Jan. 1, 2015
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015
Riding a bike to work pt. 3 - The lateness 11
I didn't commute by bike today because I found the fatal flaw in bicycle commuting that is most likely the real root cause of why people drive everywhere.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015
STA shuttles a fifth of Bloomies
Spokane Transit Authority today reported that it provided shuttle rides to 9,000 Bloomsday participants.
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015
Riding a bike to work pt. 2 - The crampening 7
I dove in head first and rode almost 10 miles on my first day, the first time I had ever ridden a skinny road bike and the first day in approximately 17 years I had ever ridden a bike at all. Today, I tried it again.
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015
The Los Angeles bike highway that never was 1
In 1899, a madman/visionary/cyclist/entrepreneur named Horace Dobbins dreamed up an idea to build a nine-mile long bike highway in the middle of Southern California. It didn't work, but its idea presaged the highways we know today - those for motorists. Gizmodo tells the tale of…
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015
Riding a bike to work pt. 1 - The fatness 18
Last weekend I bought a bike. I didn't intend on buying this particular bike, it was just sitting in the rack at Goodwill, but it was only $29 and I'm a sucker for a good thrift store deal. Here is my tale.
Seattle Transit Blog discusses STA's high performance transit plan
Bruce Nourish over at the Seattle Transit Blog has weighed in again on Spokane's transit system, this time with a post about Spokane Transit Authority's long-term plan for high performance transit. If you're unfamiliar with that term, it basically means frequent, all day transit service...
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015
One-third of state's highways in poor condition 2
A third of urban highways in Washington are in poor condition, a quarter of the state's bridges are structurally deficient or obsolete and the state transportation department faces a backlog of $1.8 billion backlog in "pavement preservation," according to a report released this week by...
Mending downtown Spokane's sidewalks
If you've ever walked around downtown Spokane, you won't be surprised to hear that the sidewalks are broken. Like really broken, deteriorating and hazardous, especially if you've got your nose buried in your smartphone. It may surprise you to hear that there's $40 million worth of repair...
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015
A new mail truck? 3
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…
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2015
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015
Feds: Your car's dirty so wash it already 1
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...
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
Spokane's walk score still quite pedestrian
New York. San Francisco. Boston. Philadelphia. Miami. Not Spokane.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015
Portland's bridge for everything but cars 6
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...
MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015
4th and Maple gets new traffic signals, will ease traffic back-ups 1
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's effort to encourage alternative, non-car commutes is "model for the nation"
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...
SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2015
Mumm honored for crosswalk work
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....
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2015
A war or a 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...
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2015
More bike lanes are coming to downtown Spokane (with illustrations!) 2
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"),...
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015
Spokane's bicycle greenways 2
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...
Spokane Pac-Man
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....
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