Almost Car-Free Community

Posted by Joanna on May 12th, 2009

Colin Smith from Resource Systems Group and the co-chair of the Lebanon Master Plan Transportation subcommittee sent around this very interesting article from yesterday’s NYT about an (almost) car free
residential development in Germany.  How about trying a similar experiment here in the Upper Valley?

Bicycles in Paris

Posted by Joanna on May 11th, 2009

Check out the great black and white photographs of Paris by Siobhan Mlacak.  Her bicycle images are fabulous.   Station Vélib - Gobelins • Paris, FranceCanal St Martin enneigé • Paris, France

Transportation Vision for Lebanon

Posted by Joanna on May 10th, 2009

Transportation Vision for My City

By Frank Gould

 

There is a fair city named Lebanon

whose by-ways have long known congestion

let’s make positive change

across the whole range

from bike-ped to car to ten ton. Continue Reading »

Sharrows coming soon to Hanover

Posted by Joanna on May 8th, 2009

Sharrows are coming soon to Lebanon Street in Hanover.  A number of shared lane arrows will be painted on the street in front of Hanover High School to more clearly define the bicycle route.  How cool is that.  More information will follow.   

Lebanon Master Plan Meetings

Posted by Joanna on May 6th, 2009

Every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Lebanon High School becomes a hub of planning activity.  Ten committees have been meeting for the past 5 weeks to discuss their respective master plan chapters.  Committees have been given the task of reviewing the vision for their chapter and making sure it reflects public forum and survey results.    One non-resident may serve on each committee. I’m representing Dartmouth on transportation committee.  It’s fascinating….

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