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• The Daily Report

  Sharing the Road

  Holly Otterbein | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, philadelphia, transportation, traffic, bikes, urban design, holly otterbein, bike lanes | 0

  In the “Designing the 21st Century Street” competition, architects and urban designers reconstructed a troubled intersection in Brooklyn. Other cities could benefit from adopting the winners’ proposals, which treat pedestrians, bikes and cars as equals.

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  The Big Apple’s Little Gambles

  Diana Lind | Thu, Jul 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: transportation, downtown, diana lind, brooklyn, transit, paris, bikes, manhattan, bike share 2008, congestion, city room blog | 1

  New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real?

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• Headlines

  Civil War Democracy, traffic, bikes, crack

  David Anderson | Mon, Feb 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, david anderson, hillary clinton, los angeles, brooklyn, bikes, crack, selma, super tuesday, us marines, civil war, usa today, berkeley, common sense | 0

  Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War

  “The untold story in the run-up to Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s elaborate live prime-time special the night before the vote. Presiding from a studio in New York, the candidate took questions from audiences in 21 other cities. She had plugged the event four days earlier in the last gasp of her debate with Barack Obama and paid a small fortune for it: an hour of time on the Hallmark Channel plus satellite TV hookups for the assemblies of…

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• Headlines

  Bakery corruption, baggy jeans, bike-only parking lots, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Jan 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, new york city, meredith aska mcbride, bikes, suburb, hispanic, fema, border fence, egypt, saggy pants, urban education, parking lot, bread, trailer | 0

  Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma

  “What is required, educators say, is nothing less than revolutionizing schools built for another century, when a high school diploma was a ticket to social mobility in a manufacturing economy, and students with only basic skills could make it into the middle class. But the task is daunting, and the outcome uncertain, experts say.”

  The Nano Challenge: What happens when the green movement crashes into the anti-poverty crusade?

  “I’m not…

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