Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory Discusses Downtown and New Riverfront Park

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Coleen Gentles

Smart Growth America recently completed video interviews with several mayors and other prominent elected officials nationwide, and will be releasing them over the next several months. The first is with Mayor Mark Mallory from Cincinnati — he speaks to the need to invest in downtowns and to make the right kinds of infrastructure investments to trigger job creation [...]

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Bike Sharing Stations to Come to National Mall

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Coleen Gentles

Last week, Washington, D.C.’s Capital Bikeshare celebrated its one millionth ride, just in time for its one year anniversary. The nation’s capital is the first community in North America to offer a government-sponsored bike sharing system. Capital Bikeshare is extremely popular, attracting over 18,000 members in the past year. This milestone warranted a party, so the [...]

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Bike to the Blossoms Campaign Brings People to Parks

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Coleen Gentles

Every year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the city of Washington, DC.  Originally planted along the north bank of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, the cherry trees bloom each spring and can now be found throughout the entire Tidal [...]

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Moving Traffic to the Trail: Boulder’s Multipurpose Greenway

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Ryan Donahue

Can a greenway park help a city solve its transportation problems? Definitely! That’s the finding from Boulder, Colorado (pop. 100,000), the conservation-minded home of the University of Colorado and a national leader in combating auto traffic, energy waste and sprawl. Back in 1990 Boulder rejected the concept of widening roads and constructing interchanges in order [...]

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Bring Bike Share Programs to the Parks

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Coleen Gentles

Several cities across the country rolled out bike share programs this year.  Denver’s B-cycle program (more than 400 bikes at 42 solar-powered stations) was unveiled last Earth Day as the first large-scale municipal bike sharing system in the United States.  Washington, D.C. first opened a limited network of kiosks called SmartBike in June (100 bicycles at 10 locations), then [...]

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Some news from around…

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Elissa Hoagland Izmailyan

Students in the Bronx celebrate their new playground, one of 42 vacant lots that the Trust for Public Land has transformed into playgrounds and community spaces in New York City. (NY1) Proof parks are brought to life by their communities — Youngstown, Ohio residents set up a temporary “pop-up park” in a downtown parking space. [...]

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New Video on Millennium Park’s Cycle Center

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Ben Welle

We recently wrote about cities building bike stations, and that these are facilities that can fit well within parks. Now, the National Association of Transportation Officials and Streefilms teamed up to bring us a nice video on Chicago’s Millennium Park Cycle Center. As one interviewee says, “I think it’s the best thing in Chicago.” The [...]

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Videos: Engaging Communities Around Urban Pathways

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Ben Welle

Post by Stephen Miller, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Last month, more than one hundred advocates of urban pathways, greenways and trails from the private and public sectors met in New Orleans for the first in a series of meetings to discuss best practices that encourage physical activity on shared-use pathways in urban neighborhoods. Topics of discussion included [...]

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Getting to Park Connectivity in Built-Out Cities

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Ben Welle

Planners have long held up the idea of connectivity – links between people and places that tie everything together.  Within park systems, the concept goes back at least to when the walls of European cities came down, as many of them (e.g. Paris), were turned into grand boulevards ringing their cities and linking up places. [...]

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Healthy Cities Have Ped/Bike Bridges

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Ben Welle

We’ve been looking into what can make healthy cities, and how park systems can better be a part of this. One feature that’s come up in several cities is the pedestrian/bike bridge. Cities across the country are adding these bridges as part of their trail and park networks – including the Stone Arch Bridge in [...]

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