Posts about Kansas

Outlaw sustainability?: A Kansas state legislator introduced a bill to ban spending any "public funds to promote or implement sustainable development" by the state or any city or town in Kansas. Fortunately, the bill didn't pass—yet. (Bloomberg) (Comment)

States opt back in to trail funding: Florida and Kansas, which previously had opted out of federal recreational trail funding, have now joined the 48 other states in welcoming the funds. Kansas even increased its funding towards trails. (Streetsblog) (Comment)

States keep trails funding: All but 2 states, Florida and Kansas, have chosen to keep their trail funding. The recent federal transportation bill let states instead transfer this money to other purposes, including highways. (Mobilizing the Region) (Comment)

Suburban scholars and museums: Suburbs have become a large part of American life, obviously. It's therefore little surprise that some schools are creating departments of Suburban Studies, and Johnson County, Kansas is creating a National Museum of Suburban History. (Seattle PI) (Comment)

Sillier merchants: Lawrence, KS merchants want to let their employees park in prime spaces in front of their stores, even though there are garages a few blocks away. They say it's unsafe to walk the few blocks, but then why is it safe for shoppers? (PT's Parking Blog, Michael P) (Comment)

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Dinner links: Kansas outdoes everyone else edition

by David Alpert • June 19, 2008 8:41 pm

Tom the Dancing Bug via Salon.

Buy a Chrysler now, and lock in your destructive lifestyle! A great Tom the Dancing Bug satirizes Chrysler's offer to lock in $2.99/gallon gas to new buyers. How long until they go bankrupt? Who cares! Since when did US automakers think about the future? Via Richard Layman.

What about the "character of the community"? Greensburg, Kansas was completely destroyed by a tornado. Every building was gone. Now, they are building a walkable, mixed-use town in its place. (But we still have to rebuild Klingle Road exactly as it is!)

Good at sports, bad at urban planning: Boston is planning a new TOD development at the Forest Hills subway, commuter rail, and bus station in Jamaica Plain. But the MBTA still insists the developers replace all the parking, and planners are thinking about making all the streets one-way and changing traffic signals to speed traffic. All this while the development seeks LEED certification. Can LEED please add "not building lots of parking and adding traffic" as a factor? Via Planetizen.

Please go away, Mary Peters: The FTA also doesn't like Baltimore's Red Line proposal. What else is new? The Baltimore Sun is eager for a new administration, as is The Overhead Wire.

Get inna the road: MyBikeLane, the site where people publish photos of cars parked blocking bike lanes, is now operating in DC. Via Matthew Yglesias.