TN MOVING STORIES: Bike Share Coming to LA, Looking Back at ARC's Tunnel's Rocky Start, Abandoned Bikes in UK Get Second Life in Africa

Transportation Nation | Apr 16, 2012

Top stories on TN:
NJ Gov Christie on ARC Tunnel: Believe Me, Not The “Bureaucrats in Washington, DC” (link)
On Opening Day, NY Yankees Parking Garages Limp Toward Default (link)

CicLAvia (photo by Bart van Bolhuis via twitter)

Bike share is coming to Los Angeles: initial plans are to add 400 stations and 4,000 bicycles over the next 18 to 24 months. Mayor Villaraigosa: "Angelenos are aching for a day without a car." (Los Angeles Times; LAist)

And the mayor made the announcement at CicLAvia -- an annual event in Los Angeles that closes 10 miles of road to cars and lets bikers and pedestrians rule. (Los Angeles Times)

Wall Street Journal op-ed: transit is a drain -- what America needs is more roads.

Counterpoint: embrace user fees and infrastructure banks, because when it comes to roads, there's no such thing as a free lunch. (Bloomberg)

Despite the latest round of recriminations over the ARC Tunnel, the project got off to a rocky start -- and trouble acquiring land was just one of the problems. (The Record)

San Francisco will vote tomorrow on whether to become the first transit system in the country to offer free rides to youth. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Tom Vanderbilt talks about his Slate series on walking on NPR.

And it's good for your mental health: a recent study shows that "walking was an effective intervention for depression." (BBC)

Pedestrian traffic managers are reducing gridlock on the Holland Tunnel approach in lower Manhattan. (New York Times)

Crain's New York op-ed: New Yorkers should support Sam Schwartz's traffic congestion plan -- just not the bike-tolling part.

Chapel Hill will be the first place in the country to ticket drivers for using their cellphones at all, even hands-free devices -- but some members of the business community thinks the ban goes too far. (The Takeaway)

Some abandoned bikes in the U.K. are getting a second life in Africa. (The Guardian)

LA's bike share probably can't come a moment too soon for The Californians, an SNL skit about driving-obsessed locals.

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