Another version of a people's transportation plan (via Austin, TX)

Chicago Tribune/triblocal photo.

There is a blog devoted to getting Google Maps to add bicycling information and routing capabilities to the application, called Google Maps Bike There.

An entry, "The Big Initiatives," has 17 points about "the most-effective strategies and tactics ...we can use to make the world a nicer place for cycling and for walking, and consequently a nicer place to live[.]"

Poster from Long Beach, California.

It's a document in the vein of my The revised revised People's Transportation Plan/2008 Transit-Transportation wish list or the privately circulated document I have created on "Making Cycling Irresistable" in DC (which is a take off on Professor Pucher's journal article "Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany").

The DC biking document gets added to as I come across bits and pieces from elsewhere such as the benefits program for bicyclists, Bicycle Benefits, a mentioning of using LoJack baited bikes to help reduce bicycle theft, or the bike borrowing program at the Mayo Clinic, which lends bicycles to people for up to three weeks, giving them time to experiment with and become comfortable with bicycling as a way to get places without having to jump in first by buying a bike (see "Mayo launches bike-share program" from the Rochester Post-Bulletin).

The abovementioned blog entry will be reviewed for ideas to add to that document.

Plus, he uses the transportation hierarchy diagram that Transportation Alternatives has created, which gets to the point I made yesterday about declaring what modes are most optimally supported in a local transportation and land use plan.