Posts about Rahm Emanuel
Chicago pushes ahead without feds: Chicago Mayor Emanuel announced a $7 billion infrastructure investment, revamping the city's utilities and public transportation on a scale not seen in a generation—all without federal help. (Transport Politic) (Comment)
Mayors on transit: Toronto's Mayor Ford fired its transit chief for opposing the mayor's increasingly controversial policies to only focus on building subways, not light rail or streetcars. (Toronto Star) ... Chicago's Mayor Emanuel dedicated $7.3 million in tax increment financing to build BRT lines. (WBEZ) (Comment)
Gabe putting in bike lanes: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gabe Klein talk about protected bike lanes, the first of which are now going in. Emanuel promised 100 miles of them in 4 years, and discusses the value to businesses of bringing more people into and around downtown by bike. (NBC Chicago) (Comment)
Diffrent Democrats' attitudes on bike lanes: Former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, now a candidate for Chicago mayor, wants to build new bike lanes including cycle tracks as a major portion of his platform. Meanwhile, New York Senator Chuck Schumer is lobbying hard against a popular bike lane on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, where he lives. (Streetsblog) (Comment)
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Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits
- Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits
- Amid scandal, don't lose sight of Gray's policy achievements
- Montgomery plans 160-mile, "gold standard" BRT system
- VDOT ignores own data, pushes widening I-66
- DC's parks are 5th best in the nation, says "Park Score"
- Bethesda gets new but terrible bike racks
- DC's divide need not be black and white
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6:30 pm M Street SE/SW public meeting
Wed May 30
10:00 am Bike-ped safety enforcement hearing
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Wed Jun 6
6:30 pm WMATA Riders' Advisory Council
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