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.
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