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...
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...
In today's paper, I wrote about this year's public works construction season in Spokane, which began yesterday with wastewater project on Northwest Boulevard. Due to the constraints of print, and the fact that most people don't want to read 10,000 words about road work, I...
Bruce Nourish, over at the Seattle Transit Blog, wrote his first of a promised series of articles examining Spokane's transit system today. I met Bruce a few weeks ago when he was passing through. Two things were clear: he loves talking transit, and he's taken...
The Spokane City Council is considering lowering the speed limit on a portion of Inland Empire Way that sees a lot less vehicular use, thanks to the new interchange at Cheney-Spokane Road and SR-195. From West 23rd Avenue south, Inland Empire Way will be 25...
There was a time when newspapers were delivered by children riding streetcars. Then kids piled their bikes high with the day's news and tossed the papers onto front porches - or as close as they could. This guy keeps the tradition alive in Delhi, India....
Did Spokane beat Copenhagen to an idea about using bike lanes to treat storm water? Seriously? The answer: Maybe. First off, in October, I wrote about the city's idea to build bike lanes using permeable pavement on the South Hill and near Gonzaga University. Put...
Come one, come all cyclists to hear about all the snazzy new bike lanes the city is considering putting downtown. Next week, the city of Spokane is is hosting an open house to talk about the second phase of work on the Downtown Bicycle Network....
War and conflict bring nations to their knees, but a bike still helps this elderly woman get around.
An article in this Sunday's New York Times examined an innovative project happening in Seattle that ties a passenger's income to the price of a ticket to use the city's transit system. From the article: "On Sunday, the county transit system for the Seattle metropolitan...
Another sign that Seattle coddles its bike-riding citizens like spoiled babies: leaning rails. Seriously, as if riding your bike to work wasn't already the easiest, laziest way to commute - especially during Seattle's mild winters - now they're building rails for them to lean on?…
In today's paper, we have an article about a proposal to increase the speed limit on I-90 to 75 mph between the Spokane County line and Ellensburg. We have a need for speed here at Getting There, so we decided to crunch the numbers a...
If you've been to the Portland International Airport, you've probably noticed the carpet. You also probably had one of two thoughts. Either, hey wow that's neat! Or, hey that's really ugly.
Which of these two images do you prefer? If the results of an Australian study are right, you probably picked the light rail. But why? According to an article on the Atlantic's City Lab, it probably only has to do with perception. Trains are sleek…
Ever had the desire to forgo winter tires for tread? Try these next winter (and be sure to give me a test ride). They may not be gentle on the roads, but you'll get where you need to go, even if that's on top of…
