Good Magazine looks at DC’s Booming Bike Share program

BikePGH Messageboard Thread of the Week

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The Links

• Pennsylvania Walks and Bikes highlights the “livability bills” that were introduced into this session of PA legislature, including a “4-ft passing bill”
• Speaking of Harrisburg, Next American City wonders how transparent is your State Government?
• As it turns out, Pittsburgh traffic is as bad as other cities.
• The Post-Gazette continues blaming pedestrians for the increase in pedestrian fatalities, but is this just more of the same “windshield perspective?”
• An Amtrak study of whether to put a bicycle-friendly stop near the Great Allegheny Passage in Somerset County could be finished by July.
• The House Transportation Committee shrinks, and the Obama administration is finally beginning to make some movement on the expired Transportation Bill while some lawmakers mock spending money on “bike paths,” but no one knows how any of it will be financed.  Meanwhile the Post-Gazette points out that, factoring in inflation, drivers have actually had steady years of gas tax cuts

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