Alert - MTA violates state law

[Senator Gladden's response]
Q: What part of a bus is allowed to be broken and go without repair, adversely affecting a segment of the ridership population?
A: The bike rack.

All 180 bike racks have been destroyed by MTA drivers and there have been ZERO effort for repair or replacement. MTA drivers have been destroying bus bike racks at a rate close to one a week and no one in MTA thought this is a problem to be dealt with by repair or replacement. It really gets my goat when we fight for a bike facility then it gets taken away, there really should be a law against this

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Joint Statement Regarding the Revised Transportation Outlook 2035

The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board has released for public review a revised Transportation Outlook 2035 long-range plan. Transit funding under this revised plan is only $238 million greater than in the plan released in July of this year, a mere 3% of the 22-year budget. This amount will barely begin to bring the region the vastly improved transit system appealed for so strongly to the Board in August by the citizens and organizations of the region.

Incredibly, transit expansion funding remains below that in the plan adopted by the Board only four years ago, and is a mere 26% of total expansion expenses

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I-95

[Note: that north is the right side of the picture.]
Hi Everyone,

As promised, we are sending this newsletter out to all of you because there are a lot of things going on that affect your bicycle travels here in Harford County. Speaking of news, I urge you all to attend the next Transportation Management Association Meeting on Thursday, November 27, 2007at 9:00 am at the HEAT Center in Aberdeen. Melissa Williams of the MdTA will be presenting the latest information on I-95
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Cutting car emissions saves lives

by Donovan Vincent - city hall bureau

A new study on the health effects of air pollution from traffic in Toronto says a 30 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions could save nearly 200 lives a year and $1 billion in health costs.

The Toronto Public Health report, to be released Monday, also estimates that "mortality-related'' costs associated with traffic pollution in the city are about $2.2 billion annually.
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Authored by Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's medical officer of health, the study claims this pollution contributes to about 440 premature deaths and 1,700 hospitalizations a year in Toronto.
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"When I was growing up, around 35 years ago, maybe one or two children I knew had asthma. Now it's normal to see kids with (inhalers),'' he said, adding he hadn't read the health department report, but had a rough idea of its findings.

The report says pollution from traffic leads to about 200,000 restricted-activity days per year, where people spend the day sick in bed, or curtail their usual activities.
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"Given there is a finite amount of public space in the city for all modes of transportation, there is a need to reassess how road space can be used more effectively to enable the shift to more sustainable transportation modes," it says.

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enVISIONing Annapolis

An upcoming presentation by enVISIONing Annapolis will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at The Boys & Girls Club, Bates Heritage Center, 121 South Villa Avenue.

Speaker Jane Holtz Kay, architectural critic for The Nation and renowned author of Asphalt Nation, will lead a conversation on "Cars vs. People: Transportation in Annapolis?"

Jane Holtz Kay will discuss the economic, emotional, and physical gridlock caused by cars in American cities and propose ways to get where we need to go without destroying where we live.

All "Conversations" are free and open to the public. This series of public Conversations is sponsored by enVISIONing Annapolis Foundation, St. John's College, and Annapolis Charter 300.
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Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: A fatal bias?

By Robert Mionske JD

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You raise an interesting point: many cycling deaths result in no criminal legal accountability.
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But there's another type of response I want to discuss in this column-the response from law enforcement and the media. In Bicycling & the Law, I discuss the institutional biases against cyclists, including law enforcement and media biases. Following the recent cyclist fatalities, we have seen firsthand some textbook examples of those biases. I will be discussing some of those cases in this column,
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Huffy Recall Notices

There was a news article about Huffy pedals falling off so I went to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission site to find the details and I got 42 hits of various Huffy products falling apart. If you have a Huffy bike it may be worth your trouble of looking through the CPSC site.

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