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. 
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 »
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4th & 5th Graders Design
Posted by Joanna on Mar 20th, 2009
Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping with a design charette at the local elementary school. ORW, landscape architects, orchestrated a fascinating afternoon for 28 4th & 5th graders. The students’ charge was to collect information about their school yard. They were given a map and series of questions - how do walkers and bikers enter the school grounds? how much grass & mud? where do the buses go? etc. After gathering the data, the students returned to the art room to record their findings on the big site plan and share them with the group. Next Wednesday afternoon, the students return to the “studio” to re-design the space. Can’t wait!
Excellance in Motion at Stanford
Posted by Joanna on Oct 27th, 2008
From Metro-Magazine, October 27, 2008:
Stanford University’s Transportation and Parking Program was presented with an “Excellence in Motion” merit award by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in Oakland, Calif., last week.
The program was one of 11 people, projects and organizations to be honored by the commission for improving mobility and creating transportation alternatives for motorists who drive alone.
The department is credited with helping to reduce the drive-alone rate from 72 percent to 52 percent in the past six years, using a combination of incentives and targeted marketing.
Cash incentives are offered to Stanford students and staff who turn in their parking permits and switch to alternative transportation. The department also encourages car-free commuting by offering free rides on 13 shuttle routes that link the Palo Alto-based campus to bus and rail hubs and the surrounding community.
In addition, the department has doubled the cost of a parking permit over the past six years, which has helped to discourage car commuting, and expanded the number of on-campus bike rack spaces to 12,000.
“We have significantly reduced single-occupancy vehicle driving on our campus, cut air pollution and congestion, and made Stanford’s one of the most comprehensive university programs in the country,” said Brodie Hamilton, director of Parking and Transportation Services.
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