What I'm about to describe here sounds almost like a parody of suburb street-development-by-plumbers, but this is what's on the table tonight at the Board of Public Works Meeting: *LETTER FOR GREENDALE RELATIVE TO A JOINT APPLICATION FOR S. 51ST STREET – RAWSON AVENUE TO COLLEGE AVENUE FOR...

The AP reports that driving in America has undergone its most dramatic decline in history, as Americans drove 100 billion fewer miles during the 12-month period ending October 2008 compared with the prior year. “The fact that the trend persists even as gas prices are dropping,� said Transportati...

A difficult pill to swallow for suburbanites - the culture of "happy motoring" and routine 45-minute daily commutes, one person to a car, is coming to an end. And we're stranded in suburbia without sane mass transit options. Heaven help us when we get too old to drive. Stranded in Suburbia...

My poor bicycle, I call her Hedwig, has been sat in the hallway looking a bit sad for the last sixth months, since we were both damaged in an accident that resulted in a broken jaw and smashed up teeth for me, and a blown tyre and a few scratches for her. I finally got round to taking her in to get ...

ABOVE: Nope, it's not turn three at Indy - - it's a residential subdivision street with a park path(!) opening right onto it. Because a right angle turn would SLOW US DOWN too much. Not so funny, from the  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Pedestrian deaths up in 2007 Milwaukee police get funds to ta...