Uneasy Rhetoric

RT Rider has a terrific post up about how the Regional Transit Board of Directors doesn’t use transit. Specifically, RT Rider asked the members of the Board whether they used transit and received responses from five of the eleven members, mostly listing excuses for not using transit that, while valid, miss the point. Why do [...]

Sacramento Regional Transit has a golden opportunity to raise its profile and it has dropped the ball. One of the myriad ways CalTrans is suggesting people avoid the whole I-5 mess during the next couple months is by taking transit. Granted, those likely most affected by the construction will be those living north and south [...]

As the Amgen tour gets ready to roll through Sacramento (or at least the tiny part of it between the Tower Bridge and Capitol Mall), attention turns to bicycling. According to yesterday’s Bee, Sacramento ranks sixth among large cities in percentage of trips by bicycle. At 1.9 percent, Sacramento has a skosh over half as [...]

If you find yourself behind someone pausing at a green light, (or pausing before making a right turn on a red light) before you honk, look carefully. That driver may be waiting for pedestrians crossing against the light. Remember, running over pedestrians, even if they are crossing illegally, is a bad, bad thing. If you [...]

I completely missed this. Apparently, the Vatican has issued “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,” which includes a Ten Commandments for Motorists. Among the commandments (which Blork lists on his blog): Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin. Amen. I received the renewal [...]