Savannah’s Victorian District is among 10 neighborhoods recently chosen by the American Planning Association’s for recognition in its Great Places series. Other neighborhoods on the list are in Oakland; Denver; Washington, D.C.; Dorchester, Mass.; Jackson, Miss.; St. Louis; Albany, N.Y.; Richmond,…
Tag: Bicycling
Why isn’t Savannah’s bike share program more popular with local residents?
From Marcus Howard today at SavannahNow, CAT bike share program not too popular with Savannah residents: Since launching three months ago, Chatham Area Transit’s bike share program has sold 629 user passes, according to newly released data from the transit…
Savannah’s new bike share program CAT Bike starts Friday; NYT takes note
Savannah’s new bike share program CAT Bike, an initiative of Chatham Area Transit, has gotten a little press from the New York Times’ In Transit blog: Savannah Starts a Bike Program. Ironically, the program begins on Friday — among the…
Atlanta’s Beltline: here to stay, expanding, and looking pretty cool
I don’t know enough about Atlanta’s geography or the particulars of the Beltline to say anything original about the project to create a ring of trails around the city. But my fellow blogger Ed at Peach Pundit says: “At the…
Problems involving social equality and bicycling infrastructure
I include relatively short block quotes from many published sources in posts here at Savannah Unplugged. Often, those 1-3 paragraphs (almost always less than 10 sentences, I’d guess) give my readers here a pretty good sense of the key information…
WSJ editorial board member rants about how “the bike lobby is an all-powerful enterprise”
There’s been a lot of levity the last few days about Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz’s Onion-like rant in the newspaper’s rather extraordinary “Death By Bicycle” video, embedded below. More on that in a second. I haven’t…
When it comes to biking and walking, Savannah is a tale of two cities
Thanks to Savannah Morning News reporter Eric Curl for his recent blog post Biking, walking website flunks Savannah. From that post: The average bike score given by the Walkscore.com was 48 out of 100, putting Savannah at 77 out of…
Bicycling downtown — is it worth it?
I got some interesting feedback to my Tuesday City Talk column: Bicycling in downtown Savannah: Is it worth it? I tried there to be honest about the costs and some of the hassles — including three times I was a…
Why are Americans driving less?
I’ve been following this trend for a while now. We are seeing a decline in driving in America that is unprecedented since the advent of the automobile. In the graph below, from Calculated Risk, you can see that we’re now…
John Bennett, new Savannah Bicycle Campaign director, on parks & parking
Congratulations to John Bennett, the new executive director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign. From Connect Savannah: Bennett will be responsible for coordinating the Savannah Bicycle Campaign’s events, including the annual Earth Day Wheelie ride and the Midnight Garden Ride. He…
A Savannah intersection voted third worst in the nation
I drive through the intersection of Abercorn and White Bluff all the time, and it’s not the city’s worst by any stretch — as long as you’re in a car. I pretty much never see cyclists or pedestrians at that intersection, and for good reason.
Wheels in the sky: What if bike lanes were above traffic?
This is a really interesting animation from Exterior Architecture of the proposed SkyCycle project in London.
Norman the dog rides a scooter . . .
Charleston City Paper on becoming more bicycle friendly
Interesting piece from the Charleston City Paper that might have some logical extensions to Savannah: Nine ways to make Charleston a bicycle-friendly city. There’s considerable emphasis in the piece on the success of the wide bike lane for the Arthur…