Nick Peterson on Streetsblog

My Friend Nick was quoted on Streetsblog. He's very excited about it. I'm impressed too. We're all clearly a bit nerdy over here. The piece is about parking garages in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Here is Nick's juicy bit:

Hell's Parking Lot

"...The Department of City Planning doesn't seem to take seriously the fact that parking generates traffic," says Nick Peterson, a vice president at planning firm Alex Garvin & Associates, "but if a new garage opens on a block that provides a net increase of 200 parking spaces, that's 200 cars that weren't there before. It's pretty obvious that new cars are on the road as a result." As for the pedestrian environment, he adds, "A parking garage is a dead space along the sidewalk -- there is no reason to go in and out of a parking garage except to park or pick up your car."

Yay, Nick! The whole piece is worth a look, even if you live in DC.

MoCo Healthy and Sustainable Communities Workshop

Photo downloaded from Flickr, Some Rights Reserved, MoCo DPW

To guide local policymakers and help promote a sustainable quality of life, the Montgomery County Planning Board, in partnership with the County Executive, is launching a project to develop overall environmental policy goals and set indicators measuring progress toward meeting those goals.

Join the Planning Board and the County Executive at a Healthy and Sustainable Communities Workshop, June 25-26 at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, MD. (Shuttle to/from Metro Red Line provided.) Download the workshop save-the-date flyer Let us know you're coming! Please RSVP. The Workshop is co-sponsored by the Montgomery County Planning Board and the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection.

Details, including the information above, are here. Of course, they use different photos in their marketing material...

Walking can be hazardous to your health...

Last week I was just walking along when

I tripped and lost a chunk of incisor (see below).

Ok, I admit, I was walking with a bike, but still, I was walking.

I recommend riding the bike.

Thank goodness I was wearing a helmet!