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Here’s a Grand Vision value being implemented, (right in my hood) Traverse Heights kick starts a school-community garden initiative with $5000 grant! Nice.

Weekly Chatter

Ride me! via Farlane's Photostream

• We love our cars in Michigan and the glorious parking space is one example. This is too crazy to not just quote:    “The states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin together have 1,260 square kilometers of paved parking lots…That.. more than 2.5 spaces for every car and almost five percent of urban land use.” NOT counting on-street and parking decks!

• And, what ever happened to our PARK (ing) Day organizers? Here’s some more PARK (ing) inspiration (SF turns parking spaces into parklets).

• Distracted driving? How about an iPad on your steering wheel…don’t be punked!




• This is for real, a slower ambulance speed just may save your life and also help keep your neighborhood pleasant.

• More on the true cost of car ownership (graphic) and how low-gas taxes costs us all more in the end. $300-$400 in preventable car repairs and not to mention increased bike tire punctures.

• The Washington Post prescribes how to get more bike commuters. And yes, it’s the the infrastructure stupid.

• As we approach TART’s Smart Commute week (June 7), a reminder that it’d be best if it wasn’t needed.

• In Philly, an annual commuter competition sees the bike beat the car and the subway by 6 minutes! We need a cross-town challenge in Traverse City…anyone?

• As more bike riders are out and about, the helmet and sans-helmet debate just won’t go away.

And, since we started the week talking about mothers biking while expecting, here’s a pregnant veloist riding through Barcelona…Looks nice enough. She points out the helpful infrastructure along the route to getting some blood work.

That’s it, going for a ride.

Friday Scribble

Meanwhile, in a city and state capital near you, Complete Streets policy continues to be implemented. What will become of our Morning Motorists? To be continued...