“…while the city embraces its innovative bicycling culture, longtime riders argue that the capital still lacks infrastructure to support it. “

“…critics worry most about beginner urban riders navigating the segmented nature of the city’s designated bicycle lanes: They begin and end seemingly at random, forcing cyclists to veer into four-lane roads stippled with potholes and urban grit. Buses and hurried automobile traffic push them into the right-most lane, where doors of parked cars can swing open unexpectedly, catapulting cyclists.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/us/politics/washington-bike-share.html?_r=0

We have requested that Asbury Park be added to the data base.  Right now the score is low, but keep checking back!  We would qualify for a higher score  already with our bike share!

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/10/a-tool-to-track-all-the-mobility-modes/541545/?utm_source=nl__link1_100217&silverid=MzEwMTU3NTc5MzI5S0

Here’s the link to the app:

http://transitscreen.com/mobilityscore/

A new development in Mannheim, Germany, is the ultimate walkable community.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3059264/this-new-car-free-neighborhood-redesigns-suburbia

“…intersectional urbanism is an urbanism that (1) recognizes the diversity of experiences in a city, (2) acknowledges the oppression experienced by the marginalized and (3) endeavours towards building a city that meets the needs of everyone who lives in it.”

https://robinmazumder.com/2017/09/24/a-city-that-works-for-everyone-reflections-on-the-necessity-of-an-intersectional-urbanism/amp/

The author lives with issues of marginalization.  He is a person of color and has a physical handicap.  He also believes that he has privilege, being male, saying that privilege has sheltered him from the reality of misogyny .

He says,

“I try to be cognizant of how these elements shape how I see the world and determine the positions I take.”

“As someone who lives with a progressive degenerative neuromuscular disease, I am constantly examining accessibility in cities and trying my best to advocate for universal design.

As a person of colour, I reflect on how racism influences my experience of the city.”

“…privilege (has) sheltered me from that reality. I wasn’t naive to the misogyny

 

 

The U.S. gets failing grades on walkability in a withering new report [PDF] from the National Physical Activity Plan, a coalition that includes public health behemoths like the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association.

Survey open through September 30th.

Asbury Park City Transportation Manager Mike Manzella has submitted an application for Asbury Park to be recognized by the League of American Bicyclists as a “Bicycle Friendly Community.”

Part of that application process is a survey to nearby residents and visitors about riding a bike in Asbury Park:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BFC_FA17_AsburyParkNJ

Please take a few minutes to provide some input about biking in Asbury Park.

 

Introducing Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan, a rigorous national examination of creative placemaking in the transportation planning process. Released today by Transportation for America in partnership with ArtPlace America, this new resource identifies ways that transportation professionals can integrate artists to deliver transportation projects more smoothly, improve safety, and build community support.

Read more…

https://smartgrowthamerica.org/introducing-arts-culture-transportation-creative-placemaking-field-scan/

 

A great TED Talk by Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design, a federal program that helps state governors fight suburban sprawl.

He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as The Smart Growth Manual. His recent book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time – which the Christian Science Monitor called “timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work” – was the best-selling planning/design title of 2013 – 2015.

 

 

 

Surprise!  Cul de sacs are not safe!  A short humorous video by Adam Ruins Everything explaining why.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BzKrQDdQ5GA