The Week’s Links: 1.8.09
- Null Space has a cool article about the history of the Pittsburgh Skybus project, and how it sucked money away from more practical public transportation options that we subsequently never got
- The iBurgh App, an iPhone app that allows you to take a picture of problems, like a pothole, then geo-tag and send it directly to 311, is finally working
- Senators Dodd and Dorgan are retiring. What’s this mean for transportation policy?
- Can Electric Cars really save us?
- Bicycling Magazine takes a look at Philly’s anti-bicycling woes
- BikePortland has an interesting series on bicycle insurance and what options you have 1, 2, 3
- The Fed Department of Transportation launches distraction.gov, a “tool to promote common sense, fight distracted driving”
- A list of Bike Blogs written by women, and PGH’s own T.O.P. Ladies Blog
- A Yale Study claims that the popularity of online social networking has helped lead to a decline in US car sales. Really?
- Safe Routes to School gives out money to states, and Pennsylvania is finally getting some (more news soon).
- StreetsblogLA writes The Case Against Bike Paths, a thought-provoking article that calls into question trail-centric bicycle facilities
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