Welcome to Citiwire.net! Could smart, sensitively applied community corrections actually relieve some of the massive budget pressures states and localities are suffering with their burgeoning prison expenditures? That’s the interesting thought I encountered, from the Pew Center for the States, in researching in a column that began with a focus on such measures as early prisoner release to ease some of the public burdens. … This week’s Citiwire column, by our Citistates Group colleague, Portland-based transportation expert Sam Seskin, looks into the big benefits of “bike boulevards” — an ingenious way to tame some of our streets to create safe passageways for bicyclists, without even banning cars in the process.
-
Recent Comments
- Bert Metzger Jr on Big Money, Attack Ads Infect Judicial Elections
- Rick Cole on Receivership Logical Cure For Ill-Fated “Cities”
- Trevor Peirce on Big Money, Attack Ads Infect Judicial Elections
- Joe Feeney on Receivership Logical Cure For Ill-Fated “Cities”
- Steven Ames on The Future of Planning – “Utah Style”
-
Our Mission
Our mission... to reflect a new American narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Our mission… to reflect a new narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Leaving behind the 20th century pattern of cheap energy, endless automobility, burgeoning suburbs, threatened inner cities. To a challenge-packed 21st century: energy prices headed north, perilous carbon emissions, deepening have-have not divisions, excruciating social problems and deep challenges in education. But a time of exciting promise, too. Read more ›