What do you accomplish in your morning commute?

I rode with Peggy on her tandem to the last of the first round of Regional Transportation Plan Workshops in McKinleyville, last night.

Peggy is sight-impaired, so this was a cool way to get to a workshop that would have been difficult to attend by transit. There was no bike parking out front so we brought our bikes into the Lobby. Jim from the Schattz Energy Lab rode over from Arcata with us.

The Humboldt County Association of Governments is conducting its regular Pedestrian Needs Assessment Update.  This process collects citizen input on sidewalks, trail, roads, intersections, crosswalks, land use, and conditions that affect pedestrian access and walkability.

To take an on-line survey, go to www.hcaog.net. The information you provide will be included in the Pedestrian Needs Assessment Update.

Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, and now GoLoco, spoke at the TED awards conference on many topics near and dear to my heart, namely how a connected world with better designed markets and prices will be a more efficient and happier place. I think she's taking her faith in the mesh network concept a little bit far, though: it seems like there will be some serious bandwidth constraints if they're used for much data-intensive purposes.

Housing affordability = the cost to rent or buy, right?  But when if the cheapest housing is far away from where you work, urban centers, and essential goods and services?  Then, there's less of a chance that public transportation (transit) will be available or affordable, and if you drive, you'll drive farther and that'll cost more.

Check out the website of Portland State University.  It features bikes and cool socks.  HSU, do you see this?

Eureka City Councilmembers Chris Kerrigan, Jeff Leonard and Larry Glass had some very encouraging comments tonight on the Traffic Signal synchronization project which the city is pursuing in cooperation with Caltrans. The project installs compatible electronis in both Caltrans' and the City's traffic signals to improve the flow of car traffic.

Folks at the Green Wheels meeting said that I should post a blog post after I told them about Transit Camp, a two-day event in Palo Alto, CA that brought people to talk about and work on innovations to make transit easier, better, and more popular, largely using the web, but also off of the web to.

What was cool about Transit Camp? In a word, everything, but more specifically: