Housing + Transportation Affordability
The Center for Neighborhood Technology released new data showing the affordability of housing when transportation expenses are included, which in many cases completely [...]
Another Walking School
A school in the Toronto area goes "walking only." http://spacing.ca/wire/2010/03/25/milton-school-forces-to-students-to-walk/
Review of "Traffic"
Tom Vanderbilt has written an entertaining and scary analysis of why people drive as they do. In Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do [...]
Getting More Women on the Bike
Please check out the Streetsblog post on women bicycling, at http://streetsblog.net/2010/03/19/getting-more-women-on-the-bike/.
Roop Street Widening Project – Phase 3
On March 10th, Muscle Powered attended the Carson City Regional Transportation Commission meeting to learn more about Phase 3 of the Roop Street Widening Project. [...]
A sea change for transportation
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood's Fastlane blog announces a new policy that puts walking and bicycling on equal footing with motor vehicles! He uses the [...]
National Train Day
What does National Train Day, May 8, have to do with walking and biking? Well, walking and biking are part of a rational transportation system [...]
Step by step: Join walkers on the path to physical and mental benefits
Here is a great article from the Sacramento Bee on walking, just walking - Step by step: Join walkers on the path to physical and [...]
Carson River Loop with Vickie
A group of eight rode the Carson River Loop this Sunday. We met at Mark Twain Elementary, rode out Nye to Deer Run [...]
Muscle Powered Ride this Sunday
Vicky Pritchett will be leading another Muscle Powered ride this Sunday, March 14th. The meeting location is at 10:00 AM at Mark Twain Elementary School [...]