Angie Schmitt

Angie Schmitt is a newspaper reporter-turned planner/advocate who manages the Streetsblog Network from glamorous Cleveland, Ohio. She also writes about urban issues particular to the industrial Midwest at Rustwire.com.
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Posts by Angie

2013
May 17: The Bike Boom Is Happening in Cities Making a Push to Improve Cycling 4
May 17: Bikes and equity: bicycling benefits all communities 0
May 16: Next Boondoggle From Wisconsin DOT: Double-Decking Milwaukee Freeway 14
May 16: More evidence that Helmet Laws don’t make us safer 0
May 15: Big Breakthrough for Active Transportation Within Reach for Missouri 2
May 15: NYC: Give to Streetsblog By Thursday and You Could Win Goodies From Planet Bike 0
May 14: Cyclists Are Special, and They Should Have Their Own Rules 143
May 14: Crowd-Funding Our Way To A Better Troost Corridor 0
May 13: The Wisconsin GOP’s Special Flair for Anti-Urban State Politics 24
May 13: Holy Hubway: Hubway Set To Break A Million Trips 0
May 10: Maryland Cops Show How Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Should Be Done 15
May 10: Using development charges as a transit funding mechanism 0
May 09: Has Scott Walker Finally Found a Way to Kill the Milwaukee Streetcar? 27
May 09: With new study, air travel subsidies get another pass 0
May 08: The Debate About Bike Infrastructure Has Been Settled 49
May 08: Put rooftop bars atop empty parking garages? 0
May 07: Do American Transit Projects Suffer From a Democracy Deficit? 28
May 07: Study highlights importance of travel time as a metric 0
May 06: Boston to NYC: Bike-Share Will Be Worth It 18
May 06: Godwin’s Law 0
May 03: The Incompatibility of Resilience and Sprawl 6
May 03: Who’s blocking the L Street bike lane today, and what can we do? 0
May 02: The Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and Why It Barely Registers 36
May 01: Washington ranked #1 among Bicycle Friendly States 0
May 01: If Americans Don’t Like Walkable Cities, Why Aren’t They Cheaper? 69
May 01: The rise of Motordom and how we learned to blame the victim 1
Apr 30: The Big Leap From Car-Lite to Car-Free 39
Apr 30: Long distance trains don’t work? 0
Apr 29: What Kind of Transpo Secretary Will Anthony Foxx Be? 5
Apr 29: Bicycle Parking Now Allowed At Kauffman Stadium 0
Apr 26: Teaching Police How to Use Laws That Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists 8
Apr 26: Passenger rail an economic driver 0
Apr 25: Miami Attempts to Wall Off Crime, Screws Up City in the Process 14
Apr 25: Portland: 3 reasons retailers love replacing car parking with bikes 0
Apr 25: Old Big Box Stores Live On, Some Too Long 0
Apr 24: The Faulty Logic Behind Pro-Car Populism 18
Apr 24: Hoboken Announces Unprecedented “Hybrid” Bike Share Model 0
Apr 23: The Opportunity Costs of Highway Expansion 1
Apr 23: Freight rail traffic is growing but urban conflicts hinder infrastructure expansion 0
Apr 19: AAA Spokesman: Leading DC Urbanist “Retarded” and “Like the Klan” 21
Apr 18: Orlando Cop Who Struck Pedestrian and Fled Scene Is Caught on Tape 10
Apr 18: Models for tackling climate change at the regional level 0
Apr 17: Toronto’s Walkability, Analyzed and Illustrated 0
Apr 17: Congratulations to Virginia’s New Bicycle Friendly Universities 0
Apr 16: Real Affordable Housing Begins With Creating More Housing 55
Apr 16: Detroit, Redux 0
Apr 15: The Final Act for Portland’s $3 Billion CRC Highway Boondoggle? 1
Apr 15: Transit for Everyone 0
Apr 12: Walk Score Introduces “ChoiceMaps” to Measure Neighborhood Amenities 2
Apr 12: World Health Organization report connects road safety with mass transport 0
Apr 11: Can Richmond Transition to a Multi-Modal City? 12
Apr 11: A misinformed driver almost right hooked me 3
Apr 10: In Wisconsin: Driving Stagnates, Highway Spending Accelerates 15
Apr 10: Are We There Yet? Older Americans 0
Apr 09: After Punting on Transit, Indiana Senate Mulls New Highway to Nowhere 1
Apr 09: Florida’s Most Well-Connected Cities 0
Apr 08: How Walkable Is Your State DOT’s Headquarters? 18
Apr 08: World Health Day: 5 questions on how transport is related to health 0
Apr 05: The Value of “Good Enough Urbanism” 3
Apr 05: Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street 3
Apr 04: Why Are State Senators Holding Up Indianapolis’s Transit Plans? 1
Apr 04: Bikes and Peds Vs. Cars – Data from New York 1
Apr 03: Why Were Saudi Women Denied the Right to Bike Until This Week? 6
Apr 03: Driver in video attack pleads guilty but could have charges dismissed 1
Apr 02: Study: Loosening Parking Mandates Leads to More Affordable Housing 6
Apr 02: Aging Among Friends: The Need To Make Cities Places For The Young– And The Aging 0
Apr 01: U.S. DOT, HHS Announce Public Health Campaign to Reduce Driving 5
Apr 01: In Fresno, is lack of spending on transit keeping unemployment high? 0
Mar 28: Maryland on the Verge of a Fix for Transportation Funding Woes 3
Mar 28: Family biking ready to boom in 2013 0
Mar 27: When the State DOT Stands in the Way of Local Progress 22
Mar 27: Oregon House bill would make bike paths (and more) eligible for highway trust fund 0
Mar 26: Introducing the Parking Reform Mayoral Candidate 0
Mar 26: Tulsa Advocates: Fix Our Streets! 0
Mar 25: A Hippocratic Oath for People Who Take Care of Cities 10
Mar 25: Crashes – and communities’ deadly preferences 0
Mar 22: In Many Markets, Rail Beats or Competes With Air Travel 35
Mar 22: Capturing the Value of Public Transportation 0
Mar 21: Integrating transit media with debit-credit card functions could be very expensive for the rider 0
Mar 21: On North American Streets, Space for Bikes Is Right There If You Want It 14
Mar 20: Indianapolis Parking Minimums Force Walmart to Ask for Less Parking 2
Mar 20: What would happen without parking requirements? 0
Mar 19: How the U.S. Tax Code Favors Driving Over Other Modes 25
Mar 19: Little has changed with the latest edition of the engineers report card on US infrastructure 0
Mar 18: What’s Killing the Enclosed Mall? 6
Mar 18: Mayors Make It Happen 0
Mar 15: Change Culture, Change Streets: An Anthropological View of Bike Advocacy 7
Mar 15: Scott Walker Adds 32% To Wisc. Transportation (Read: Highways) Budget 0
Mar 14: The Problem With Entertainment Districts 17
Mar 14: What is an Equity-Based Transport System? 0
Mar 13: “Urbanism Should Be Second Nature” 2
Mar 13: Cleveland Leads North American Cities in Bus Rapid Transit 0
Mar 12: One Reason Federal Funding Is So Important to Transit 2
Mar 12: A smart gax tax for South Carolina 0
Mar 11: Memphis Marching Forward on Safe Streets 10
Mar 11: Building Trails To Support Kansas Tourism 0
Mar 08: SimCity 5 Review: “Simulating 1950′s America” in 2013 36
Mar 08: Size Doesn’t Matter 0
Mar 07: The Lifeless Reality of Urban Casinos 9
Mar 07: Business impact of bicycling dominates Capitol Hill meetings 0
Mar 06: How to Turn a Public Parking Space Into a Private Storage Locker, Legally 41
Mar 06: More cause than cash: The bike lobby comes of age 0
Mar 05: Nevada, Miami, and St. Louis Take Steps Backward on Pedestrian Policy 16
Mar 05: The Car: America’s Original Individual Mandate? 2
Mar 04: Washington State Lawmaker: Cyclists Cause Pollution By Exhaling 45
Mar 04: A cycling perspective on Detroit’s Emergency Finance Manager 0
Mar 01: Has the NTSB Made a Single Recommendation on Bike Safety Since 1972? 19
Mar 01: What If Your Street Belonged to Kids on Saturdays? 0
Feb 28: In Seattle, Transit Supporters Get Ready to Flex Political Muscle 5
Feb 28: Washington Examiner declares War on Solutions 0
Feb 27: What We Can Learn From the New Wave of Municipal Bankruptcies 8
Feb 27: Is the “man-covery” responsible for 2012′s increase in vehicle deaths? 1
Feb 26: Wooing Suburban Drivers With Cheap Parking: A Losing Strategy for Cities 21
Feb 26: Per capita VMT ticks down for eighth straight year 0
Feb 25: Today’s Sign That America Is Falling Behind on Transport Policy 17
Feb 25: Does Miami want to be a REAL city? 0
Feb 22: Despite “Fix-It-First” Rhetoric, Obama Still Promoting Highway Expansions 9
Feb 22: Astoria, Oregon gives pedestrians orange flags for visibility 0
Feb 21: Washington State Considering a “Symbolic” Tax on Bicycles 55
Feb 21: Unequal sequestration cuts show the need for a real transportation fund 0
Feb 20: Florida’s Speeding Cops 0
Feb 19: Portland, Mainers Don’t Miss Torn Down Road Infrastructure 10
Feb 19: Time to worry about important things? 0
Feb 15: Litmus Test for Transport Spending: Will It Benefit Our Kids? 5
Feb 15: AAA fights to keep unnecessary parking rules 1
Feb 14: Fix-It-First Policy Must Tackle Road Expansions on Track for Federal Loans 6
Feb 14: Who are the ‘urbanists,’ anyway? 1
Feb 13: Why Obama’s “Fix It First” Approach to Infrastructure Matters 1
Feb 13: Stamford “Transit” Oriented Development 0
Feb 12: How to Create an Unloved Public Space: Surround It With Parking 0
Feb 12: Public transit saves 6.9 million hours of delay in Portland traffic: Study 0
Feb 11: Could You Give Up Your Car for Lent? 11
Feb 11: Providence: Plowing done wrong 0
Feb 07: Aspen, Colorado, to Vote on “Idaho Stop” 33
Feb 06: Why Is Charlotte’s Former Mayor Challenging Charlotte’s Transit Plans? 5
Feb 06: The Potential of Small Town Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning 0
Feb 05: Lowering Parking Minimums Is Nowhere Close to a “War on Cars” 11
Feb 05: War on cars continues: bike lane takes 0.2% of parking! 0
Feb 04: Why Transpo Bureaucrats Need to Take More Risks 3
Feb 04: Merits and Aesthetics in the Density Argument 0
Feb 01: If Pols Won’t Raise the Gas Tax, How Else Will They Fund Transportation? 23
Feb 01: Why smarter land use can help cities attract and retain young adults 0
Feb 01: Too fast 0
Jan 31: LaHood Goes 5 for 5 on the National Bike Summit 0
Jan 31: Study: People Who Bike or Walk to Work Enjoy Their Commutes the Most 45
Jan 30: The Case for a Highway Teardown in Dallas 13
Jan 30: Secretary LaHood’s Legacy: Stronger, Safer Transportation Choices for All Americans 0
Jan 29: 28 Lanes, 8.5 Minutes to Cross — Is This America’s Worst Intersection? 17
Jan 29: Three Ways to Improve Walkability Without Touching the Street 0
Jan 28: Actually, Naysayers, Change Is Inevitable 6
Jan 28: Sustainable transportation Nantucket style 0
Jan 25: Portland Mega-Highway Backers Resort to “Rebranding” 3
Jan 25: Where’s the Outrage Over Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths? 0
Jan 24: Safer sidewalks ahead for Charlotte 0
Jan 24: PA Gov Tom Corbett’s Transpo Funding Fix: A Tax on Fossil Fuel 2
Jan 23: Can Transit Reverse Indianapolis’ Center-City Slide? 3
Jan 23: Why the renewed attention to subway-related deaths? 0
Jan 22: Repairing the Neighborhood Scars Created By a Freeway 1
Jan 22: Great bike access helps score great workers, Portland firms say 0
Jan 18: The Safety-in-Numbers Effect Surfaces in Minneapolis Bike Crash Data 3
Jan 18: The Placement of the Automobile in Seattle vs. Phoenix 0
Jan 17: Massachusetts’ Anticipated Transpo Funding Plan Is a Big Ol’ Let Down 7
Jan 17: Santa Fe Declares War on Pedestrians 0
Jan 16: VA Gov Bob McDonnell Boots Bypass Opponent From State Transpo Board 2
Jan 16: Charging by the mile, a gas tax alternative, sees serious movement 2
Jan 15: Why Do Cities Matter to Michigan? 1
Jan 15: Making the Most of MAP-21 0
Jan 11: Miami Mom Describes the Traumatic Experience That Is Crossing Her Street 9
Jan 11: New Analysis Calls for Improvements in Tracking Pedestrian Fatalities in New Jersey 0
Jan 10: The Diminishing Returns of Highway Building 4
Jan 10: More than $64.3B to be invested in North American rail transit in 2013 0
Jan 09: The Practical Genius of Old American Main Streets 7
Jan 09: NYC: Thanks to Everyone Who Gave to Streetsblog and Streetfilms in 2012 0
Jan 08: What Is the Anti-Density Crowd Really Afraid Of? 38
Jan 08: Suburban sprawl could destroy up to 34 million acres of forests, says new study 0
Jan 07: Business Leaders Help Win Protected Bike Lanes in Portland 2
Jan 07: The power of “creative placemaking” 0
Jan 04: Streets Filled With Driverless Cars: A Perpetual Fantasy? 32
Jan 04: Drunk driving prevention is difficult, but we already know what it takes 0
Jan 03: Getting Bus Rapid Transit Right — Indianapolis Looks for Examples 5
Jan 03: Who Are the Important Players for Bicycling in the 113th Congress? 0
Jan 02: Sneak Preview: 2013 in Transit 8
Jan 02: Fiscal cliff deal restores transit benefit 0
Jan 02: You Get What You Measure 0
2012
Dec 20: LeBron James, Bike Commuter 18
Dec 20: The CYCLE Continues – William Penn Supports RTC’s Work in Camden 0
Dec 19: Breaking: Sprawl Just as Reliant on “Big Government” as Smart Growth 13
Dec 19: Coral Gables Knocks Out Own Front Teeth 0
Dec 14: DC Residents: Parking Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough 0
Dec 13: How a Group of Young Bike Advocates Are Reshaping Reno 0
Dec 13: Being a City Planner In a Room Full of Engineers 0
Dec 12: Number of Protected Bike Lanes in America Nearly Doubled in 2012 10
Dec 12: ODOT tames rural highway in La Pine with buffered bike lanes 0
Dec 11: What’s Behind the Rise in Cyclist and Pedestrian Deaths? 32
Dec 11: City reports double digit bike to school rates for first time ever 0
Dec 10: Want to End the Scourge of Surface Parking? Tax Land, Not Buildings 25
Dec 10: Why cyclists need police understanding, not crackdowns 0
Dec 07: Support Streetsblog This Month and You Could Win a Bike! 0
Dec 07: Sidewalk Bandits Make Off With the Pedestrian Right-of-Way 11
Dec 07: Apparently it is Possible to Have Too Much Parking 1
Dec 06: Why California’s Two-Thirds Local Ballot Threshold May Be Worth Keeping 17
Dec 06: Can Davis make Diamond?? 0
Dec 05: Chicago Bike Lane Envy Sweeps the Nation 37
Dec 05: Bike Ped Plans In Brigantine, Pleasantville and Atlantic City 0
Dec 04: DNC Head: Transit “Essential to Our Economic Success” 5
Dec 04: Murphy’s Law: How State Aid to Cities Has Plummeted 0
Dec 03: Contributory negligence – one person’s story 0
Dec 03: Two-Way Protected Bike Lane Coming to the Heart of Downtown Chicago 9
Nov 30: Seven Ways to Make Bike-share More Accessible 24
Nov 30: Stagnation, progress in Chicago trigger ideas for President Obama’s second term 0
Nov 29: EPA honors seven outstanding community sustainability projects 0
Nov 29: Without Bypassing Chokepoints, BRT Risks Becoming “Symbolic Transit” 27
Nov 28: Wisconsin Highway Bonanza: Scott Walker Unfazed by Lack of Funds 7
Nov 28: Livable Streets Advance Thanks to CT Advocates, Municipalities 0
Nov 27: Can Chicago Build a Bike-Share System That Works for Everyone? 5
Nov 27: Don’t Walk in Sonoma County 0
Nov 26: St. Louis Boy Killed by Drunk Driver, Put in Harm’s Way by Design 8
Nov 26: Why the 85th Percentile Rule still matters 0
Nov 21: Bike-Powered Disaster Response Gets National Spotlight 7
Nov 21: Sandy an Opportunity to Refocus New Jersey’s Transportation Priorities 0
Nov 20: Funding Uncertainty Plagues Highways, But They Still Get Built 5
Nov 20: Bike-Friendly Ballot Measure Hangs on 0.1 Percent of the Vote 1
Nov 19: School District Threatens Rockville Mom for Putting Her Child on City Bus 32
Nov 19: More Bike, Less Pike 0
Nov 16: One for the Dustbin: The 85th Percentile Rule in Traffic Engineering 41
Nov 16: The same “empty buses” fallacy, over and over 0
Nov 15: Will Philadelphia’s City Council Screw the Pooch on Parking Reform? 6
Nov 15: Peak Car Use and Burgeoning Cycling Volumes in Baltimore 0
Nov 14: New Balance to Build Train Station as Part of Its Boston Headquarters 12
Nov 14: Jarvis bike lane erasing continues with slow rolling protest 0
Nov 13: Photos: Toronto Protesters Meet Bike Lane Removal Crew Head On 10
Nov 13: New Orleans Gets Jazzed Over Bike Funding 0
Nov 12: Enticing Car-Lite Households to Take the Next Step 16
Nov 12: It’s Policy, Not Preference, that Shapes Cities 0
Nov 09: A New Governor for Washington, a New Day for Transit in Seattle? 6
Nov 09: Traffic court notes 0
Nov 08: Parking Rightsizing 0
Nov 08: Let’s Agree: Treating Cities as a Wedge Issue Is Senseless 10
Nov 07: Why Do Sidewalks Predict Whom We’ll Vote For? 20
Nov 07: In Obama’s second term, distinctive transportation policy should change focus to walking and bicycling 0
Nov 06: How Ohio’s Early Voting Rules Discriminate Against City Dwellers 7
Nov 06: Election 2012 Results Central – Transportation Edition 0
Nov 05: A Changing Marin County Is Still Building Yesterday’s Housing 2
Nov 05: Slow down, and pipe down 0
Nov 02: How to Win a Local Campaign: Anchorage Shows the Way 4
Nov 02: The EPA Warned About Climate Change Flooding Since Bush – - 2003 0
Nov 01: Transit in the NYC Region, After the Storm: Rebuild It Better 12
Nov 01: Biking and walking rule in a city sans subway 1
Oct 31: Is This the Beginning of the End of Climate Silence? 23
Oct 31: Danish 180% Tax on Cars is Rather Irrelevant 0
Oct 29: As Another Major Storm Looms, Will Candidates Keep Ignoring Climate? 15
Oct 29: Flat fare falls flat 0
Oct 25: AAA Revives Offensive Against Safer D.C. Streets 13
Oct 25: More Dangerous Than Public Service or Public Works: Miami Roads 1
Oct 24: Remembering When Our Streets Belonged to Everyone 24
Oct 24: How auditors get transit wrong: a lesson from Vancouver 0
Oct 23: Amtrak Hits a Train Speed Milestone in the Midwest 12
Oct 23: Federal Highway Administration interprets transpo bill; good news, bad news 0
Oct 22: Atlanta Picking Up the Tab for New Stadium as Transit Funding Stagnates 4
Oct 22: Bike lanes and quiet streets make cycling safer, but the safest of all are cycle tracks: study finds 0
Oct 19: Virginia DOT Using Flawed Data to Justify Charlottesville Bypass 2
Oct 19: Cascade launches bike-friendly business certification program 0
Oct 18: Will This Boost Transit? Maryland Promotes Driving on $2.5 Billion Tollway 3
Oct 18: Debate again ignores urban issues 0
Oct 16: When Did Cities Become Politically Unmentionable? 15
Oct 16: Seattle’s first cycletrack! 1
Oct 15: Boston’s Over-the-Top “Bike Safety” Campaign 14
Oct 15: Bike Pooling Rolls On 0
Oct 12: When Will We See a Department of Transportation and Land Use? 9
Oct 12: Using Technology to Target Cycling Investment 0
Oct 11: The Washington Nationals: Winning at Sustainable Transportation? 7
Oct 11: Seen This Bad Movie Before 1
Oct 10: How to Expand Your Transit Network Without Expanding Its Budget 2
Oct 10: 120,000 People, 0 Cars 0
Oct 09: Kansas and Florida Reverse Course on Spurned Trails Funding 1
Oct 09: TODERIAN: It’s not about the bike or car —it’s about better cities 0
Oct 05: Turning Around the Transportation Culture at a School 2
Oct 05: Four Important Frames in Marketing Cycling to Women (WBS12) 0
Oct 04: Car-Oriented Drug Stores: Scourge of the Urban Corner 23
Oct 04: Safe Routes to School benefits kids and the community 0
Oct 03: Private Bus Routes and Silicon Valley’s Outmoded Office Model 39
Oct 03: It ain’t necessarily so — new study proclaims L.A. one of the nation’s most dangerous places to walk or ride 0
Oct 02: Is Your Region a “Complete Community”? 3
Oct 02: Is there a member of the ITE who will stand up against bad road designs? 0
Oct 01: How Streets Designed for Speed Led to the Death of a Seventh Grade Girl 13
Oct 01: But, but, jaywalking isn’t illegal 0
Sep 28: The Tricky Politics of Introducing a Streetcar to a City 3
Sep 28: Remember when we talked about capping the Cleveland Innerbelt? 0
Sep 27: An Ohio Sprawl Leader Begins to Recognize Its Mistakes 5
Sep 27: Be Who You Are- Only Better! 0
Sep 26: Connecticut Towns Nix Highway for Greenway 6
Sep 26: Mayor’s proposed budget shows strong support for bicycling — action needed 0
Sep 25: Slate Examines the Irrational Biases That Underlie Cyclist Hatred 28
Sep 25: Opportunity for States to Protect Land Use 0
Sep 24: Is It Time for Interbike to Dump Las Vegas? 14
Sep 24: MDOT adds buffered bike lanes to Northwestern Highway 0
Sep 21: Police Bias in Car-Bike Collisions? Los Altos, CA May Take the Cake 15
Sep 21: Shared Space: A crazy idea? 0
Sep 20: League of American Bicyclists Introduces “Diamond” Bike-Friendly Status 5
Sep 20: Tell Governor Gregoire Safe Routes to School is not expendable 0
Sep 19: Planning a Streetcar? Better Get Your Zoning Right 7
Sep 19: New Report: Departments of Transportation Can Innovate Through Transit-Oriented Development 0
Sep 18: Orlando Looks to Halve Pedestrian Deaths 4
Sep 18: Are urban big box stores good or bad? 1
Sep 17: Fighting (Imaginary) Traffic in Downtown Kansas City 13
Sep 17: Infill opportunities? Connecting the dots with used car lots. 0
Sep 14: Wisconsin DOT “Flagrantly Ignored” Federal Civil Rights Requirements 3
Sep 14: Iowa town bans bikes 3
Sep 13: Boston’s Hubway bike system finally nears 100 stations 0
Sep 13: Making Neighborhood Streets “Skinny” and Safe 3
Sep 12: China Racing Past Competitors to Expand City Subways 2
Sep 12: ODOT, Sandy Blvd, and the curse of outdated design manuals 0
Sep 11: Almost Every State Chooses to Retain Recreational Trails Funding 1
Sep 11: Chicago’s first pedestrian plan includes great ideas, lacks some information 0
Sep 10: Bike-Share and Bike Lanes: The Chicken and Egg Debate 9
Sep 10: How communities can support walkability and be recognized for it 0
Sep 07: Mexico City Bike-Share Goes Big 7
Sep 07: Big Houses, Small Lots, and the Seattle Problem 0
Sep 06: One Man’s Push to Require Bike Licenses in Oregon 22
Sep 06: Seattle Could Prohibit Some Small-Lot Development 2
Sep 05: What If We Supplied Hamburgers the Same Way We Supply Roads? 10
Sep 05: Cities, sustainable placemaking, and the careful use of words 0
Sep 04: UPDATED: In Miami, Cloaking an Anti-Cycling Proposal in Bike-Friendly Language 26
Sep 04: Quick Note: Are Freeways Safer? 0
Aug 31: The Big Deception in Mitt Romney’s Global Warming Brush-Off 20
Aug 31: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Centrally Planned City 0
Aug 30: No More Suburban Office Parks for Downtown Cincinnati 15
Aug 30: Study: Oregon, Washington drivers’ gas consumption at lowest level in nearly 50 years 0
Aug 29: Why Are American Infrastructure Projects So Expensive? 19
Aug 29: Real Talk: How Much Power Does the City Really Have to Do Away With the Downtown Parking Glut? 1
Aug 28: Visualizing the Enormous Squandered Potential in a Parking Lot 5
Aug 28: Beyond Spandex, Toward Social Justice: Women Redefining the Movement 0
Aug 27: The Hidden Benefits of Schlepping Groceries 39
Aug 27: LA finally gets serious about fixing its sidewalks 1
Aug 24: A View of the Suburban Ghost Towns Surrounding Charlotte 1
Aug 24: Boston case shows declining car volume on major street 0
Aug 23: How Grid Systems Promote Urbanism and Winding Streets Undermine It 18
Aug 23: Ayn Rand on Urbanism 1
Aug 22: Pedestrian signals: Faster than never 0
Aug 22: From “Devil Wagons” to Domination in Two Generations 4
Aug 21: Cleveland: Progressing on Bike Policy, Still Falling Behind? 2
Aug 21: WisDOT To West Allis – - You’re Nothing But An I-94 Bypass 0
Aug 20: As State DOTs Receive Surprise $, Risk and Opportunity for Safe Streets 2
Aug 20: Constitutional Amendment Would Send More State Funds To Local Roads 0
Aug 17: Walking Rates in America Improve, Still Pitiful 43
Aug 17: Civil engineer helps bring change to Des Plaines 0
Aug 16: What’s It Like to Bike to Work on Separated Lanes? “Awesome.” 10
Aug 16: Rail Picking Up Steam in the East and Midwest 0
Aug 15: Syncing Traffic Lights No Sure-Fire Way to Reduce Emissions 40
Aug 15: Shit we can’t keep in the street 0
Aug 14: Select Bus Service Thoughts 0
Aug 14: WaPo Blames “Distracted Walking” for Unexplained Rise in Deaths 26
Aug 13: On Transport, Romney-Ryan Ticket Presents Extreme Contrast to Obama 11
Aug 13: Freeways Don’t Need to be a Housing Show-Stopper 0
Aug 03: High Economic Stakes for Pittsburgh as Transit Doomsday Looms 5
Aug 03: ‘Potholes for Poverty’ a novel way to smooth streets 0
Aug 02: Metro Atlanta’s Sales Tax “Savings” Will Come at a High Price 10
Aug 02: Amtrak California ridership continues to grow in 2012 0
Aug 01: Montgomery County Legalizes Two-Family Houses (But Not Really) 11
Aug 01: Bike Leaders Honored by White House as Champions of Change 0
Jul 31: Portland to Rewrite Car-Centric Street Engineering Standard 12
Jul 31: Yglesias: Where’s our suburban parking reform? And parking likened to chairs! 0
Jul 30: The Politics of the I-35 Bridge Catastrophe: Not Just Minnesota’s Problem 7
Jul 30: How far will we walk to go somewhere? It depends. 0
Jul 27: Matching National Trend, Portland, Maine Sees Decline in Car Ownership 3
Jul 27: Will Your State Fully Fund Bicycling and Walking? 0
Jul 26: Coming to a Walkable Place Near You: More Efficient Housing 29
Jul 26: Researcher considers cargo bikes as tools for social justice 0
Jul 25: Maybe What We Need Is Ghost Cars 13
Jul 25: The Utility of Cars in Cities 1
Jul 24: A Big Week for Bicycling in Fort Worth 3
Jul 24: Kinzie Street crash story: Report them all 0
Jul 23: The Inherent Shallowness of the Rail vs. Bus Debate 31
Jul 23: Bad Ideas in Sacramento County 0
Jul 20: Developer of NJ Mega-Mall-Amusement-Park Should Pay for Transit Service 11
Jul 20: Health Care Savings From Walking, Biking and Riding Transit 0
Jul 19: Why are we losing the war on sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives? 0
Jul 19: Sprawl and America’s Awful, Awful Drought 6
Jul 18: When “Vulnerable User” Laws Go Unenforced 3
Jul 18: Portending a single fare system for bikes and transit 0
Jul 17: Holding Out for a More Cost-Effective Plan to Speed Northeast Rail 8
Jul 17: To the end of free parking–happy birthday parking meter! 0
Jul 16: Skinny Storefronts, a Must for Walkability 14
Jul 16: What is “infrastructure,” anyway? Industry report highlights 100 leading city projects 0
Jul 13: In Virginia, Imagining a Less Disruptive Alternative to a Highway 5
Jul 13: Safe Routes to School Funding 0
Jul 12: Bullet Train Bombshell: CAHSR Spurned Cost-Cutting Offer From the French 22
Jul 12: Tiny Apartments: Good or Bad for Urban Living? 0
Jul 11: Does Transit Really Have a White People Problem? 39
Jul 11: California city limits bike parking in public areas 0
Jul 10: A Victory for CA High-Speed Rail, But Still a Long Fight Ahead 21
Jul 10: Caltrans Dislikes Ghost Bike Memorials that Honor Bicyclist’s Lives 0
Jul 09: DC Metro’s Hyper-Vigilance Following Crash Overlooks One Major Threat 6
Jul 09: Public’s demand for limited carbon emissions mysteriously ignored by government it elects 0
Jul 06: Yesterday’s Car Subsidies Are Still Shaping Today’s Landscape 16
Jul 06: PA’s Hit and Run Loophole Mostly Closed 0
Jul 05: On Individualism, Being American and Striving for Sustainability 3
Jul 05: Montgomery’s McMansions will need to find a new purpose 2
Jul 03: How Much Will New Federal Safety Mandates Cost Transit Agencies? 12
Jul 03: Cars, Costs, and the Working Poor 0
Jul 02: The Tea Party’s Selective Disdain for Transportation Subsidies 12
Jul 02: Unravelling of modes 0
Jun 29: Which States Do the Most (and the Least) to Support Biking and Walking? 4
Jun 29: Transportation Bill a Step Back 0
Jun 28: Rails-to-Trails: Final Transpo Bill “Bad News for America” [Updated] 8
Jun 28: Fix the Hennepin/Lyndale Bottleneck 0
Jun 27: Bike Delivery Businesses Excluded From Clean Air Freight Grant in Portland 18
Jun 27: Why we subsidize bikesharing 0
Jun 25: Engineer: “Award-Winning” PA Highway Ramps Nothing to Be Proud Of 10
Jun 25: “Traffic is a social problem” and what’s needed is “an outbreak of civility” 1
Jun 22: On Portland’s East Side, a Sea of Empty Parking and a Plan to Change It 1
Jun 22: Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By 0
Jun 21: In Metro Portland, Car Collisions More Costly Than Congestion 0
Jun 21: Dear Indiana, please repurpose my taxes 1
Jun 20: Capital Bikeshare Subscribers Save $891 a Year 4
Jun 20: What if bus stops were designed as if bus stops really mattered? 0
Jun 19: Is Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Pulling a Scott Walker? 2
Jun 19: Revised Bicycle Laws: When Conversation Is Criminal 0
Jun 18: What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet’s Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer 5
Jun 18: A Bipartisan Push for Rail in Virginia Produces Ridership Successes 0
Jun 15: Will Dallas Climb Out of the Bike-Friendly Cellar? 3
Jun 15: Threats to Walking and Biking as Federal Talks Continue 0
Jun 14: California APA Pooh Poohs Statewide Parking Reform Efforts 5
Jun 14: Minneapolis Gives Streets a Chance 0
Jun 13: Ta-da! Money for Highways Appears Out of Nowhere in Texas 11
Jun 13: City Cycling Book Examines How to Get More Women Biking 0
Jun 12: Want to Increase Cycling? Sharrows Won’t Cut It 57
Jun 12: A Decision-Support Framework For Using Value Capture to Fund Public Transit: Lessons From Project-Specific Analyses 0
Jun 11: Even Most Republicans Don’t Want to Slash Spending on Transpo 5
Jun 11: Bike Advocacy on the Move in Ohio 0
Jun 08: The Fort Worth Chamber’s Hilariously Terrible Vision for the Future 12
Jun 08: Tell Albany to Give Transit Riders the Break They Deserve! 0
Jun 07: Meet the Bike Entrepreneurs Helping to Rebuild Detroit’s Economy 1
Jun 07: Connecticut Must Leave Road Expansions in Rear-View 0
Jun 06: Survey: 100% of Facts Think anti-TSPLOST Advocates are Wrong 3
Jun 06: Have Toronto’s Bike Lane Butchers Found Another Target? 16
Jun 05: 10 Years Later: How Cincinnati Healed Its City Core — and Its Reputation 3
Jun 05: Women leaders in the Detroit bicycle movement 0
Jun 04: Cleveland: Building Public Support With Pop-up Cycling Infrastructure 4
Jun 04: What does being 39th mean? 0
Jun 01: Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory: Completely Absurd, Frighteningly Effective 33
Jun 01: How to Use the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide for Local Project Advocacy 0
May 31: In American Courts, Drivers Still Innocent After Proven Guilty 47
May 31: Senate plan to give local communities more control in making their streets safer could be in jeopardy 0
May 30: Seattle Pol Falls Into the “Sustainability Gap” 2
May 30: New TSTC-AARP Report: Seniors, Low-Income New Yorkers Hit Hard by Transit Cuts 0
May 29: Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and the New Wave of Anti-Urban Politics 7
May 29: On the problem with unfunded federal safety mandates 1
May 25: As Tuition Prices Rise, Fresno State Spends $4 Million on Parking 9
May 25: What would $2 billion of BRT look like? 0
May 24: Dallas Mayor Reconsiders Support for Downtown Highway Proposal 2
May 24: Connecticut Breaks Ground on Busway 1
May 23: Bike Registration Laws: A License to Profile? 21
May 23: Delaware is among top 10 bicycle-friendly states in U.S. 0
May 22: When Outdated Environmental Laws Prevent Sustainable Development 6
May 22: Why Every Bicycle Counts and What We Can Learn from Fatal Crashes 0
May 21: How Much Will $6 Billion Improve Access to Jobs in Metro Atlanta? 18
May 21: Why are there more bollards being installed in Arlington County? 1
May 18: The Urban Premium: Walk Score Linked to Housing Prices 3
May 18: Eyes on Milwaukee: Tour the Talgo Trains You Might Never Ride 0
May 17: Ladyblogs’ Bully-Free Zone Doesn’t Apply to Cyclists 15
May 17: South Brunswick High School Students Seek Sidewalk 0
May 16: How Baton Rouge Brought Its Transit System Back From the Brink 2
May 16: High-Speed Rail Construction Timeline 0
May 15: DC: Getting Urban Sports Arena Development Right 12
May 15: Over 28,000 turn out for first Sunday Parkways of the year 0
May 14: Smart Growth Opponents Run Against Portland’s Pro-Urbanism Policies 7
May 14: Dissent of the week: uk bus policy and “profitability” 0
May 11: How Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood Embraced Bike Lanes 1
May 11: Kicking off “Transportation Vote 2012″ 0
May 10: Will Dallas Buckle Under the Weight of So Much Asphalt? 7
May 10: New survey shows overwhelming support for bike facilities 0
May 09: Pittsburgh Faces a Transit Doomsday 14
May 09: Society, Equity and Bike Sharing Systems 0
May 08: Buy America’s Shocking Pricetag 42
May 08: Living car-free in the Motor City 0
May 07: Sunday Train: The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Iowa Rapid-Rail Road 0
May 07: The Reason Foundation’s Comically Flawed Research on LA Rail 21
May 04: Will DC’s New Parking Czar Take Parking Reform to the Next Level? 0
May 04: Awesome Example Of Roads/Rail Double-Standards from Wisconsin 0
May 03: A Freeway Revolt Is Brewing in Dallas 2
May 03: NPR feature on biking to school 0
May 02: Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: Media Portrayals of the Car-Free 41
May 02: Sierra Club and Bike League Tell Congress to Stop Shortchanging Bicyclists 0
May 01: So You Have a Complete Streets Policy. Now What? 7
May 01: “Complete Streets” Policies Sweeping Across New Jersey 0
Apr 30: Detroit Gets Back to Its Pre-Motor City Roots With Bike Manufacturing 0
Apr 30: Paved with good intentions 0
Apr 27: San Diego Police: Unless the Cyclist Is Killed, Top Penalty Is a Ticket 32
Apr 27: TIFIA Loan Denial Shows Need to Improve Tappan Zee Project 0
Apr 26: The Suburbanization of St. Louis Isn’t Helping St. Louis 3
Apr 26: Carbon Footprint of a High-Speed Train 0
Apr 25: Debunking NIMBY Math on California HSR 17
Apr 25: D.C. wants three out of every four Washingtonians car-free in 20 years 2
Apr 24: New York City to Rein in Megabus, Other Inter-City Bus Services 28
Apr 24: Seattle Gets First Look at Ambitious, But Challenging Climate Action Plan 0
Apr 23: Hit-and-Run Crashes the Norm in Chicago Pedestrian Deaths 5
Apr 23: Philly: Center City Parking Requirements: How Low Can (And Should) You Go? 0
Apr 20: Cities With the Most Highway Miles: a “Who’s Who” of Decay 53
Apr 20: Newark Is Apparently Not a City Either 0
Apr 19: Support Livable Streets Advocacy This Spring! 0
Apr 19: Trinity toll road opponents launch online campaign in Dallas; will they seek to put question on ballot? 0
Apr 19: Citing Budget Constraints, Portland to Invest More in Biking, Not Driving 3
Apr 18: Dallas City Council Member: Adding Highway Lanes Is Pointless 5
Apr 18: Bicycle-Friendly Businesses Are Booming: 67 New BFBs Announced 0
Apr 17: A TOD Impostor in Fresno 11
Apr 17: $27 million for Newark streets and barely a dime for bicyclists 1
Apr 16: Two Ways to Sustain Wisconsin’s Highway Racket: Tolls or Crushing Debt 3
Apr 16: Bike and proud: Red Bike and Green promotes cycling to African Americans 0
Apr 13: Study: In Baltimore, One in Six Drivers Pass Cyclists Illegally 18
Apr 13: The Value and Efficiency of Small Block Structure 0
Apr 12: What’s Wrong With a Car-Centric System? New Video Explains It All 13
Apr 12: Chicago speed camera proposal – safety measure, money grab, or does it matter? 0
Apr 11: Study Finds Car-Centric Neighborhoods Strongly Tied to Childhood Obesity 6
Apr 11: Calming big boulevards 0
Apr 10: The Seattle Times: For Free Markets, Unless They Mean Less Parking 8
Apr 10: Is Parking (or Avoiding it) the Killer App for car2go? 1
Apr 09: The Great Sprawlback: Census Data Shows A Very Good Year For Cities 1
Apr 09: Transit getting more Americans where they need to go 0
Apr 06: Oregon DOT Nixes “Highways Division” for “Multi-Modal” System 1
Apr 06: 50 years after historic JFK message to Congress, transportation still the thread that connects our nation 0
Apr 05: Pennsylvania Enacts 4-Foot Passing Law, Nabs Violator on First Day 10
Apr 05: It’s National Walking Day, but too many people will have to walk unsafe streets 0
Apr 04: More Cycling: Good for Everyone — Not Just Cyclists 12
Apr 04: Urban Living as Antidote to Oil Price Fluctuation 0
Apr 03: Occupy Wall Street’s Poorly Targeted Transit Action 9
Apr 03: The New HSR Plan: Smart Move 0
Apr 02: Is Rahm Emanuel’s $7 Billion Infrastructure Plan Replicable? 4
Apr 02: Assessing our Future 0
Mar 30: Providence Station Renovation Plans Fail to Keep Up With the Times 4
Mar 30: Bike To Work, Save $17 Billion 0
Mar 29: Seattleites Predict A-Park-alypse If Parking Minimums Are Lifted 4
Mar 29: Baltimore Property-tax Reduction Plan on the Move 0
Mar 28: Wisconsin Highway Binge Continues Under “$mall Government” Walker 8
Mar 28: A House Divided: Transportation Law Delayed, Yet Again 0
Mar 27: Chicago’s Parking Requirements Are an Out-of-Date Relic 1
Mar 27: New Census Geographies Tell an Ambigious Urban Story 0
Mar 26: Capital Bikeshare Both Replaces and Promotes Transit Trips 3
Mar 26: L.A.’s Westside Subway is Practically Ready for Construction, But Its Completion Could be 25 Years Off 0
Mar 23: The Hunt for the Worst Bike Lane in the Midwest 21
Mar 23: Minnesotans Driving Less, Taking Transit a lot More 0
Mar 22: Why Is Seattle’s Sound Transit Building a 500-Space Parking Garage? 5
Mar 22: Bike Lanes: The New Job Creators? 0
Mar 21: Raise Fees for Parking, Not Riding 7
Mar 21: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Action is Afoot (and a-Bicycle, for that matter) 0
Mar 20: Race to the Bottom: The Sad State of Public Discourse on Gas Prices 34
Mar 20: Figuring out how many CMAQ projects are for roads 1
Mar 19: What the Rest of the Country Can Learn from Houston’s Damn-Low Rents 14
Mar 19: Public Health Crisis in South Florida 0
Mar 16: Feeding the Beast: The Backdoor Ways Transit Subsidizes Roads 9
Mar 16: Fixing the House bill: Cutting regulatory burdens and bureaucracy 0
Mar 15: The Other Guilty Party in a Traffic Crash: Road Designers 9
Mar 15: Bipartisan? Comparing the 2012 bills to past transportation bill votes 0
Mar 14: HR 7 Insanity: Air Pollution Funds Would Pay for Highway Expansion 6
Mar 14: Can affordability share space with infill development? 1
Mar 13: Apple to Build Sprawl-Tastic Corporate Headquarters in Cupertino 53
Mar 13: New Report on Statewide Organizations and Federal Funding 0
Mar 12: All Aboard for a Second-Rate Passenger Rail Experience 23
Mar 12: The Campus Iconic 0
Mar 09: Women in Transit: Still Swimming Upstream 24
Mar 09: Can good web content build the bike movement? 0
Mar 08: The Bicycle in Art: A Universal Symbol of Progress 4
Mar 08: Urban Identity: Citizens and their Cities 0
Mar 07: Driving’s Long Decline in Oregon 3
Mar 07: Colorado’s Heatherwood Elementary and Wisconsin’s Omro Middle School earn 2011 Safe Routes to School Award 0
Mar 06: The Trouble With RoboCars: “You Can’t Optimize People So Easily” 28
Mar 06: Misuse of air quality funds 0
Mar 05: From Manhattan to Texas, How Many People Can Live in Cities? 8
Mar 05: Forgive and Forget 0
Mar 02: St. Louis Takes the First Step Toward Highway-cide 33
Mar 02: Transit Fast Forward changing the conversation around transit funding 0
Feb 24: Pop-Up Urbanism: The Origins of a Movement 5
Feb 24: WTF?! “The Lorax” Gives Mazda “The only Certified Truffula Tree Seal of Approval” 1
Feb 23: Chicago Building a More Bus-Friendly Central City 1
Feb 23: Are Urban Arterials and Pedestrian Safety Mutually Exclusive? 0
Feb 22: Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the House Transpo Bill 2
Feb 22: Cities as Vacation Destinations 0
Feb 21: Seattle Cyclists Find Safety in Numbers 2
Feb 21: What could live smaller, work closer trend mean for sprawl region? 0
Feb 17: Reminder: States Already Control Transpo $, and They Waste Billions 4
Feb 17: Parties and the Urban Agenda 0
Feb 16: H.R. 7: Is John Boehner Serious? 19
Feb 16: House transportation bill: What’s at stake for Chicago 0
Feb 15: In NYC & Florida, Asking Police to Step Up for Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety 8
Feb 15: Walking in Seattle: These 28 Seattleites died walking on road diet candidate streets last decade 0
Feb 14: House Transpo Bill Turns Communities Into Collateral Damage 0
Feb 14: With Transportation Enhancement Funds, Communities Can Create Smarter Options 0
Feb 13: Rural Lawmakers Try to Stall a Higher Gas Tax in Maryland 1
Feb 13: North Carolina and Virginia States Pick Preferred Alternatives For High-Speed Rail 0
Feb 10: Detroit Transit Woes a Preview of American Transit Under House GOP 2
Feb 10: Oregon looks beyond gas tax as mileage-based tax evolves 0
Feb 09: A Day of Action to Stop the Attack on Transit, Biking, and Walking 2
Feb 08: Speeding Enforcement Cameras Work, and They’re Coming to Chicago 0
Feb 08: Study Finds TE Projects The Most Efficient Job Creator of All Transportation Construction 0
Feb 07: The Mile-High City Gets Back to Its Rail Roots 4
Feb 07: Capital Bikeshare Striving to Become Financially Self-Sufficient 0
Feb 06: Ready to Fight? The House GOP Bill Leaves Little Choice 6
Feb 06: Landmark diesel exhaust study stalled amid industry and Congressional objections 0
Feb 03: Study Links Quality Urbanism to Happiness :) 6
Feb 03: Congestion, envy and equity 0
Feb 02: Even More Reasons to Abhor the House Transportation Bill 2
Feb 02: Blumenauer, DeFazio blast Republicans over transpo bill 0
Feb 01: Austin’s Urban Success Threatens Its Iconic Music Venues 8
Feb 01: Horrible Surface Transportation Bill Unveiled Today — Bicycle Programs Eliminated 0
Jan 31: Even Some Republicans Don’t Like the House GOP’s Oil Drilling Plan 3
Jan 31: Smart Growth is Good Sense, Not Partisan Politics 0
Jan 30: Kickstarting a “Narrow Streets” Community in Rural Maine 5
Jan 30: Conscientious Objectors: Long Beach Shuns ‘Motordom’, Strives To Become America’s Most Bike-Friendly City 0
Jan 27: Partisan Labor Fight Threatens Indianapolis’s Game-Changing Transit Vision 0
Jan 27: TRANSPORTATION FAILINGS A LIFE AND DEATH ISSUE 0
Jan 26: College Presidents Kill Baltimore Bike Lane 2
Jan 26: Pattern Watch: Parklets Arrive in Long Beach 0
Jan 25: SOTU: Is Obama Retreating on Infrastructure? 5
Jan 25: House on the verge of releasing a transportation bill tied to increased oil drilling 0
Jan 24: Today in Bad Ideas: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Subway to Suburbia 21
Jan 24: D.C. ranks as America’s second best city for biking and walking 0
Jan 23: How the “Right” to Cheap Parking Makes Streets Less Equitable 15
Jan 23: A response to my WA-OR sprawl post: urban growth boundaries aren’t necessarily enough 0
Jan 20: People Who Live Near Shopping Streets Three Times More Likely to Walk 23
Jan 20: Albuquerque: A Bronze Level Bicycle-Ambivalent Community 0
Jan 19: SC DOT Responds to Cyclist Death By Considering Bike Ban 22
Jan 19: Charlotte rail financing has elements of Cotton Belt 0
Jan 18: Getting Around Near and Far — The Supercharged Bike-Sharing Card 7
Jan 18: BREAKING NEWS! 3 Ft Passing Law Introduced (in Nebraska)! 1
Jan 17: A Safety Fail From the Federal Railroad Administration 8
Jan 17: Why You Should Support California High-Speed Rail, Part Two 0
Jan 13: In Maryland, Marginalizing Pedestrians Under the Guise of Safety 7
Jan 13: Want to spend less than $4,200 a year on gas? 1
Jan 12: Fracking to Take a Heavy Toll on Roads 6
Jan 12: See-Rent-Ride: Bikeshare changes the way people see the city 0
Jan 11: Is this What SCDOT Really Wants?? 0
Jan 11: Celebu-Economist: Drunk Driving Safer Than “Drunk Walking” 16
Jan 10: The Design Tragedies That Pass for Road “Improvements” 3
Jan 10: DC: Banking and Bikesharing 0
Jan 09: Will a Shorter Light Rail Line Work for Detroit? 1
Jan 09: McDonnell’s budget proposal funds Lynchburg-to-DC train for two more years 0
Jan 05: One Anti-Rail Congress Is No Reason to Delay California HSR 16
Jan 05: Get Ready For New Wisconsin Road Taxes, Fees, And/Or Tolls 0
Jan 04: Study: The Key to a Healthy Region Is a Strong Central City 4
Jan 04: In praise of Really Narrow Streets 0
Jan 03: Coming to a City Near You in 2012 — New Transit Projects Underway 0
Jan 03: Car culture and kids toys 1
2011
Dec 22: Seattle Police Mock “Dumb F***” Jogger Hit by Semi Truck 21
Dec 22: A future for Roosevelt Island, but what of transportation? 0
Dec 21: Health Benefits of Ciclovia Events Outweigh Costs 3
Dec 21: Columbia, MO, city council allows skating, skateboarding on city streets 0
Dec 20: The Amazing Disappearing State Gas Tax 2
Dec 20: Wherein I Agree with New Geography 0
Dec 19: Will Urban Revitalization Leave Some Cities Behind? 3
Dec 19: Wouldn’t it be nice if media followed up on hit and runs? 2
Dec 16: Using bikes for serious emissions reduction 0
Dec 16: The Silent YIMBY Majority, and Why They Lose 17
Dec 15: Early Data From SFPark: Drivers Still Flock to Blocks With Pricey Parking 17
Dec 15: Senate committee takes positive steps for freight, multimodalism, performance and safer streets 0
Dec 14: The Cincinnati Streetcar: Triumphing Over an Anti-Transit Governor 3
Dec 14: In-Roads at the Intersection of Safety and Creativity 0
Dec 13: Bike Lane-Starved Dallas Moves Forward With First Bike Boulevard 12
Dec 13: Pedestrian injuries spike; Senate committee considers an amendment for the safety of all road users 0
Dec 12: The Secret to a Healthy Life: A Daily, Half-Hour Walk 4
Dec 12: All Activity is Not Created Equal 0
Dec 09: A Tappan Zee Bridge Without Transit Is a Lousy Jobs Program 3
Dec 09: In my opinion: On livability and the CRC, USDOT Sec LaHood can’t have it both ways 0
Dec 08: Are Cyclists “Elite Snobs”? It Depends on If They’re in Your Way 63
Dec 08: College Ave In-Street Rail: Exploring the Feasibility… 0
Dec 07: Support a Strong Network of Livable Streets Advocates: Give to Streetsblog 0
Dec 07: The Federal Government Wants to Bribe You to Drive to Work 13
Dec 07: No war on cars 0
Dec 06: Housing Bust Poster-Child Miami Invites More Sprawl 4
Dec 06: Basic questions about “cost/benefit analysis” 0
Dec 05: Arkansas Officials Surround State Capitol With Even More Parking 4
Dec 05: Comparing bike share system popularity on Facebook 1
Dec 02: The Great Recession’s “Green Lining” 10
Dec 02: On North Williams, Stopping to Listen – And Finding the Way Forward 0
Dec 01: Oakland Cops Can’t Be Bothered With OWS Vehicular Assault 28
Dec 01: Planning Advocates Call For Amendments to Economic Development Bill 0
Nov 30: Epic Job Creation Fail: Paying Developers to Build Parking 22
Nov 30: Can you say ‘sprawl’? Walmart’s biggest climate impact goes ignored 0
Nov 29: Light Rail Expansion Signals an Urbanizing Houston 4
Nov 29: Hubway To Expand Next Year 0
Nov 28: Can America Afford Not to Bike More? 24
Nov 28: Poll: Thoughts on On-Street Parking Downtown 0
Nov 23: St. Louis County: We Don’t Build Bike Lanes Because No One Bikes 14
Nov 23: Road Safety in the U.S. 0
Nov 22: Bye Bye Curbs: Safer Streets in the UK Mix Cars and People 13
Nov 22: Portland’s ‘Trees By Bike’ launches third year of holiday deliveries 0
Nov 21: Good Transit Cities Pack Jobs Tightly Together 6
Nov 21: True Life Stories of the Carfree– Melanie, Michael, Ryan (4) and Sarah (2). Winnipeg, Manitoba 0
Nov 17: Greater Cleveland in Denial About Its Downfall: Sprawl 8
Nov 17: Berlin Forming Grand Coalition To Build Misguided Urban Freeway 0
Nov 16: The High Cost of Cheap Roads 10
Nov 16: Environmental Sustainability and Bicycles: Three Reasons Two Wheels are Great for Cities 0
Nov 15: More Evidence That Bike Facilities Are Good for Local Businesses 11
Nov 15: A real “no build” option for the Tappan Zee Bridge 0
Nov 14: In Massachusetts, Driving Drunk, Getting Caught, Walking Away Scot Free 10
Nov 14: New York City Planners: Pack ‘Em In! 0
Nov 11: Mexico City Activists Draw the Line With DIY Bike Lanes 1
Nov 11: Sign the Right to the Road petition 0
Nov 10: Want to Sell Voters on Transit? Keep It Simple 1
Nov 10: Transportation for America Response to Senate EPW Reauthorization Bill 0
Nov 09: Raleigh-Durham Voters Give Go-Ahead to Light Rail Plans 6
Nov 09: MAP-21 and Complete Streets 0
Nov 08: Saving the Farm: The Fight to Keep Sprawl From Engulfing Rural America 7
Nov 08: Taxing Parking for Transit in Chicago 0
Nov 07: FRA Safety Regs Add Costs, Not Safety, to American Rail 4
Nov 07: Forget New York City’s High Line. Introducing: The Low Line 0
Nov 04: Report: “Cash for Clunkers” Was a Lemon 5
Nov 04: Mobility education is one way the Netherlands is the safest country in which to travel and commute 1
Nov 03: Putting the Price of California HSR in Perspective 7
Nov 03: Bicycle ban in De Soto, KS, “re-discussed” 0
Nov 02: Fifteen Is Serene: DC Considers 15 MPH Speed Limits 6
Nov 02: Bike and Pedestrian funding survives — again! 0
Nov 01: Is City Living the Secret to Happiness? 12
Nov 01: Toll roads coming on? 1
Oct 31: AP: GOP Attacks on Transportation Enhancements Are “Tall Tales” 4
Oct 31: Agreement on Downtown Tunneling for Seattle Region’s East Link Light Rail 1
Oct 28: What Gabe Klein is brewing up in Chicago: Pedestrian-safety mannequins 0
Oct 28: Memo to Rand Paul: Want Bridges in Better Shape? Invest in Cycling 5
Oct 27: The Power of Blogs and Social Media in Transportation Policy 8
Oct 27: Defying Predictions from Ardent Highway Lobby, Rail Ridership Continues to Grow on New Systems 0
Oct 26: The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists 54
Oct 26: Transit and traffic congestion 0
Oct 25: Seattle Drivers Cause Most Crashes, But Seattle Cops Increasingly Cite Peds 15
Oct 25: Book Review: Waiting on a Train 0
Oct 20: Look Out Below: One in Nine Bridges Structurally Deficient, Reports T4A 8
Oct 20: Transit Commuting Saves Marin Millions 0
Oct 19: The Scandalously High Cost of Shortchanging Transit 11
Oct 19: Tuesday Jolt: Seattle Gets $900K For Streetcar Study 1
Oct 18: In South Carolina, a New Era of Justice for Cyclists? 4
Oct 18: Denver Hits 2.2% Bicycle Commuter Mode Share for 2010 1
Oct 17: Visions for an Urban National Park 0
Oct 17: The $125,000 Commute: Not as Uncommon as You’d Think 46
Oct 14: Cyclist Requests Summit With Jerry Brown After Gov Kills Safe Passing Bill 16
Oct 14: Walking on Bike Lanes 0
Oct 13: Lacking Sidewalks, South Fresno Peds Cut Dirt Path Maze Through City 1
Oct 13: Wisconsin town propose bike ban 2
Oct 12: New Jersey Residents: “More Smart Growth, Please” 2
Oct 12: Learning about San Diego’s love affair with the bicycle 0
Oct 11: What the Cycling Movement Can Learn from Occupy Wall Street 6
Oct 11: Imagining the United States Without Shopping Malls 0
Oct 10: Sidewalks Alone Can’t Solve the Suburban Megaschools’ Walking Problem 13
Oct 10: Review: The Gated City by Ryan Avent 0
Oct 07: Detroit Father Charged With Child Endangerment for Cycling With Sons 31
Oct 07: Congestion and City Size 0
Oct 06: “This is not a cab town” – Cabs in Milwaukee 0
Oct 05: Responding to Cascade Policy Institute on the role of transit (and other issues) 0
Oct 05: No Safe Option for Jersey Teens Killed on Railroad Tracks 5
Oct 04: Blaming the Victim: Specious Complaints About Cyclist Behavior 101
Oct 04: A City for Cars or for People? 0
Oct 03: Aerotropolis: A New Model for Cities? 31
Oct 03: Pleasure and Pizzazz Come in Cities of All Sizes 0
Sep 30: Critical Mass: Good for Cycling or Bad PR? 33
Sep 30: Charlottesville area Supervisors shoot down city effort to delay bypass 0
Sep 29: Backwards Priorities: Most Vulnerable Commuters Last to Be Considered 10
Sep 29: Ignoring Inaction in Congress, DOT Pushes Through Grants for Intercity Rail 0
Sep 28: So Much for Austerity: Wisconsin Builds $25 Million Interchange in Cornfield 15
Sep 28: High Rise Buildings Are Sooooo Expensive 0
Sep 27: The Toothless Official Response to Air Quality Emergencies 11
Sep 27: Proposal to fix bridges by taking away safety money won’t solve the problem 0
Sep 26: Wait. What? Already? Cleveland Takes Step Backward on Complete Streets 8
Sep 26: The Correlation Between Housing Density and Cycling 2
Sep 23: Will Seattle’s “Carmageddon” Be as Anti-Climactic as LA’s? 6
Sep 23: Are We Part of Our Cars and Bikes? 0
Sep 21: One Year In, Capital Bikeshare Shatters Expectations 9
Sep 21: Another biking benefit: Reduced smoking 0
Sep 20: Should Public Transit Agencies Strive for Profitability? 12
Sep 20: Freeways to Real Estate, the Circle of Life 0
Sep 19: Park(ing) Day Organizer Arrested in Miami 11
Sep 19: Finding Smart Growth along the Great Alleghany Passage Trail 0
Sep 16: After Rash of Cyclist Deaths in Seattle, Grief Turns to Anger 3
Sep 16: Federal Bill is Still Transportation’s Moby Dick 0
Sep 15: Looking to Root Out Transportation Waste? Try Highways to Nowhere 3
Sep 15: We have reached a turning point in Seattle bicycle safety 1
Sep 14: Riding the Sidewalks and Risking Death: The Plight of Las Vegas Cyclists 3
Sep 14: Obama Proposes $4 Billion for HSR 0
Sep 13: The Parking Deck vs. the Local Grocery 1
Sep 13: Has it really come to this? 0
Sep 12: Ten Years After 9/11, American Oil Addiction Persists 11
Sep 12: Review: Visualizing Density 0
Sep 09: Obama’s Jobs Speech Gets the Transportation Wonk Seal of Approval 0
Sep 09: Get Ready to Take Action — A Major Attack on Bicycle Funding 0
Sep 08: Georgia DOT: Only People on Bikes Go Joyriding 15
Sep 08: Rave Reviews for Bike-Shares in Boston, Washington 0
Sep 07: Will New Haven Replace a Highway With Highway-Like Conditions? 5
Sep 07: Demographics and Land Use 0
Sep 06: The Indisputable Density Dividend 47
Sep 06: MARTA: It’s Not Just You, It’s Atlanta 1
Aug 23: In Portland, Counterposing Demands for Equity and Innovation 2
Aug 23: Atlanta: Subsidies, Traffic Congestion, and Giving Back 0
Aug 22: Would Taxing Bikes Solve the Infrastructure Problem? 49
Aug 22: Retrofitting Gas Stations for Good 0
Aug 19: What’s Troubling Megabus Haters? 41
Aug 19: Mixed feelings about Chicago’s first Loop bike lane 1
Aug 18: T4A Building Album of USA’s Most Dangerous Streets, Needs Your Photos! 6
Aug 18: Save the planet: ride a bus 1
Aug 17: How Seattle’s Deep-Bore Highway Opponents Lost Their Own Referendum 10
Aug 17: A look back into Oregon bike history 0
Aug 16: Maryland SHA: Guardrails are for Protecting Cars, Not People 13
Aug 16: NY Gov. Cuomo to Sign Life-Saving Complete Streets Bill 0
Aug 15: Transit By Referendum: A New Way Forward for Atlanta and Seattle? 5
Aug 15: Are Our Driving Skills A Collective Effort? 0
Aug 12: Cyclists Take Black Hawk Bike-Ban Case to Colorado Supreme Court 10
Aug 12: Overpriced real estate and its underpriced access 0
Aug 11: San Antonio’s Sprawl-Busting Transit Chief 1
Aug 11: Courteous or Critical? Will bicyclists in San Diego ever belong? 0
Aug 10: When Will the Environmental Movement Embrace Cities? 16
Aug 10: Blaming The Victim 0
Aug 09: Chinese Communist Party Emulates America’s Socialist Parking Policies 2
Aug 09: Getting Midwesterners on board with high-speed rail 0
Aug 08: Salt Lake City, Rising Transit Star 3
Aug 08: Does Car Sharing Really Reduce Vehicle Ownership? 0
Aug 05: The zombie outer beltway returns in DC 0
Aug 05: The Hidden Costs of Living Far From Work 22
Aug 04: New Report: Transport Determines Housing Affordability 0
Aug 04: Downtown Louisville Drowning in a Sea of Parking 15
Aug 03: Life Outside the Minivan: Car-Free Families Go Their Own Way 11
Aug 03: Missing the real point: city (re)development isn’t about “gentrification” as much as it is about urbanism and urban design 1
Aug 02: Keeping top transit chiefs in tough times 0
Aug 02: Indestructible Cincinnati Streetcar Faces Another Foe 22
Aug 01: Bike Shops: The Unsung Heroes of the Cycling Movement 10
Aug 01: Oroville driver “humorously” admits to assaulting cyclists with a deadly weapon. 1
Jul 29: Charlottesville, Virginia to Bypass Years of Careful Planning 7
Jul 29: It’s official – 3 foot passing law signed by Governor Markell 0
Jul 28: For Raquel Nelson, Justice Still Elusive 10
Jul 28: The Commuting Paradox 0
Jul 27: Car and Driver Magazine: “We Must Consider Alternative Transportation” 15
Jul 27: Car-sharing leads to more active transportation 0
Jul 26: Maryland Police: Fallen Cyclist Shouldn’t Have Been on the Road 9
Jul 26: Hoboken One Step Closer to Becoming Bike Friendly 0
Jul 25: Dallas Demonstrates How Not to Build a Modern Streetcar 13
Jul 25: On Embracing Change 0
Jul 22: On Gentrification and Cycling 27
Jul 22: Capital Bikeshare Expansion Stunted in the National Mall 1
Jul 21: Columbus’s Hide-the-Poor Transit Strategy Is, Predictably, Bad for Transit 6
Jul 21: Bikes on Amtrak — Why Such an Ordeal? 0
Jul 20: Mixed Messages: Parking Requirements at Bars 14
Jul 20: Free Parking and ‘Bad’ Transit 0
Jul 19: St. Louis, 2008: Another “Carmageddon” That Wasn’t 8
Jul 19: BIXI Toronto reached 100,000 trips and 250,000 km travelled in 2 months 2
Jul 18: Why Carmageddon (and the Wolfpack Victory) Matters 41
Jul 18: With Few Funds Available, What are Transit Agencies to Do? 0
Jul 15: Don’t Count High Speed Rail Out Yet 53
Jul 15: The Bicycle Dividend 1
Jul 14: Federal Government, Despite Progress, Still Acting as Agent of Sprawl 3
Jul 14: Call to Action on Transportation Re-authorization 0
Jul 13: Coincidence? Most Expensive Cities for Parking All Suspiciously Awesome 9
Jul 13: Breaking: New “Active Transportation” section to be created within ODOT 0
Jul 12: The Exquisite Irony of the House GOP Transpo Bill Cover 15
Jul 12: Let the Hissy Fits Begin 0
Jul 11: An Unsettling Look at the Early Marketing of the Two-Car Household 25
Jul 11: Traffic congestion is not increasing in central Toronto: it’s a suburban problem 0
Jul 08: Mica’s Transpo Bill Would Spell Disaster for Transit 0
Jul 08: Quick Note: Road Boondoggles 2
Jul 07: The Motor City’s Burgeoning Cycling Scene 1
Jul 07: New rumble strips rules put the squeeze on cyclists 0
Jul 06: DC’s Car-Sharing Fee: A Case Study in Bad Parking Policy 8
Jul 06: What are rescissions (and why are they far worse than flat tires?) 0
Jul 05: The Specious Threat of Spillover Parking 4
Jul 05: Op-Ed: “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” 0
Jul 01: The Social Benefits of Cycling Identified, Enumerated and Imitated 8
Jul 01: A Good Year in Albany, IF Governor Cuomo Signs 0
Jun 30: Major L.A. study shows importance of bike-transit connection 0
Jun 30: Detroit’s Sprawl King: Transit Expansion Plan Would Be a “Job Killer” 7
Jun 29: Pollution Benefits of Urban Rail 0
Jun 29: The Fiction of the Persecuted European Motorist 17
Jun 28: Coming to a College Campus Near You: More Learning, Less Parking 10
Jun 28: Are Speed Limit Signs a Cost-Effective Strategy to Manage Urban Speeds and Implement 20MPH “Living Streets”? 0
Jun 27: The Persistence of Job Sprawl in Smaller Cities 1
Jun 27: Car costs may hinder the ability of households to save 0
Jun 24: The Streetsblog Network Needs Your Support 0
Jun 24: Rob Ford’s Toronto: Moving Backwards 24
Jun 24: The Future of Bike Sharing Schemes in the United States 0
Jun 23: Chicago Experimenting With the “Pedestrian Scramble” 19
Jun 23: Road Respect 0
Jun 22: Cycling: What’s Holding Women Back? 56
Jun 22: Transportation Equity Town Hall in Buffalo Tomorrow 0
Jun 21: Streets Built For Bikes and Pedestrians Also Yield More Jobs 21
Jun 21: Another GOP Attempt to Defund Northeast Corridor Rail 0
Jun 20: Too Many Transfers, Too Much Parking, Not Enough Multi-Modalism 9
Jun 20: Chicago PD ticket Scrochers and Scofflaws 0
Jun 17: Private Investors Trying to Dictate Detroit Rail Design 20
Jun 17: UPDATE: Video, Christine Dahab blew a .07, LAPD preliminarily blame cyclists 0
Jun 16: Koch-Funded “Scholar” O’Toole: Seniors Love Car Dependence 17
Jun 16: Nevada Legislature Passes Two Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Bills 0
Jun 15: Transit’s Identity Crisis: Social Service or Economic Engine? 16
Jun 15: One Year Car Free 1
Jun 14: Security Measures for Buses and Trains? They Could Make Us Less Safe 23
Jun 14: Still waiting for action from the feds 0
Jun 13: Which Comes First: Families Staying in the City, or Better Urban Schools? 4
Jun 13: That Influential Texas “Urban Mobility Report” 2
Jun 10: “Right-Sizing” Detroit Should Start With Its Sprawling Suburbs 4
Jun 10: Streetcar Rails and Buy America Issues 3
Jun 09: Leapfrog Development Rears Its Ugly Head Outside of Fresno 7
Jun 09: The Death of a Cyclist 1
Jun 08: Look Out Portland, New York, Minneapolis: Here Comes Chicago 6
Jun 08: Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Spurs Development Interest in Newark 0
Jun 07: India’s Parking Policies Lead Down the Road to Car-Choked Cities 0
Jun 07: Tell your Representatives: Complete Streets will help curb pedestrian deaths 0
Jun 06: A Good Transit Plan Meets a Shaky Financial Commitment in Indianapolis 0
Jun 06: Could Focusing on Repairs Please Everyone? 0
Jun 03: Building a Groundswell for Safer Streets in the Deep South 4
Jun 03: Carnage culture needs to change 0
Jun 02: Trading Parking Spaces for Park Space 26
Jun 02: Portland Streetcar Inc. urges USDOT to fund bike-sharing system 0
Jun 01: Suburban Office Parks Are Losing Their Beige-Tinted Shimmer 20
Jun 01: Economist estimates CRC project would spend $60 million on parking garages 0
May 31: The Northeast Corridor: To Privatize or Not to Privatize? 19
May 31: Pedestrians of the Future 0
May 27: City Councilman Greets Philly’s Bike Progress With Anti-Bike Legislation 3
May 27: A Decline in Car Use in Britain: The Result of Policy and Practicality 0
May 26: America’s Waning Commitment to Transportation Funding 0
May 26: Pedestrians and cyclists still at losing end of collisions with motor vehicles in 2010 0
May 25: Columbus Sprawls Through Malls 13
May 25: Loop Roads or Bust 0
May 24: Washington Tops List of Bike-Friendly States 20
May 24: Can TOD Typologies Work in Places that Run Buses? Part 3 of 6 0
May 23: Detroit Media Mogul: Beware Transport Subsidies (Except for Cars) 4
May 23: Urban Mobility Report Points to Overbuilt Roads in St. Louis 0
May 13: “Development-Oriented Transit”: Lessons From Hong Kong 10
May 13: New Orleanians, rebuilding with sustainability (NOLA resilience Part 3) 0
May 12: Job Sprawl and the Importance of Transit to Suburban Employment Centers 6
May 12: Washington, California, and the Curious Case of the Railway to Somewhere 0
May 11: The Problem Isn’t Higher Gas Prices, It’s Lack of Choice 20
May 10: South Philly gets a street that will drink up water 1
May 10: Blumenauer Bill Would Level the Field for Commuter Tax Benefits 2
May 10: Biking and the school bond measure 0
May 09: Is More Transit Worthwhile If More Highways Are Part of the Bargain? 13
May 08: Transit is 5 for 5 in West Michigan, but Will Senators Defy Agema, Get On the Bus? 0
May 06: Why Planners Need to Exercise (Not Exorcise) Their Passions 8
May 06: Will this historic downtown recover? (photoessay) 1
May 05: Scott Walker, Posterboy for Government Waste 5
May 05: Urban Design that Fights Obesity and Promotes Physical Activity 0
May 04: Forget Your Bike Lock? Businesses in Portland Have You Covered 1
May 04: US Mayors Want More Bicycle and Pedestrian Investments 0
May 03: WaPo: Happy Bike Month, Scofflaws! 21
May 03: League of American Bicyclists’ 2011 Annual Appeal Campaign: Toward Zero Deaths 0
May 02: Will Kids in Strollers Get the Heave-Ho on Boston Buses? 34
May 02: It’s Bike Month: Get Out There and Proselytize! 0
Apr 29: Digging a Hole: What’s Behind America’s Aversion to Fixing It First? 18
Apr 29: Best comment ever from someone who probably drives a car 0
Apr 28: Chasing the Elusive New Transit Rider, Missing the Bus? 11
Apr 28: Shifting Our Taxpayer $$$ from Oil to Efficient Transportation and Technology 0
Apr 27: Signal Timing and Pedestrian Safety: A Case Study From Baltimore 17
Apr 27: Here To Help: How Metro Helps St. Louis Region Respond to Crises 0
Apr 26: The New Dynamics That Are Eroding the Market for Sprawl 6
Apr 26: The Politics of Gas Prices 0
Apr 25: Arlington Republicans Come Out Against Bike-Share Expansion 8
Apr 25: Bill Seeking New Ridership Study is Latest NIMBY Attempt to Derail HSR 0
Apr 21: It’s the Sprawl, Stupid — The Budget Buster No One’s Talking About 8
Apr 21: Did you hear about the Capital Bikeshare expansion. What now for SmartBike? 0
Apr 20: Zipcar Goes Public, Seattle Times Goes Road-Crazy, Commuters Go By Bike 7
Apr 20: To Improve Living Standards, Improve Housing And Transportation Policy 0
Apr 19: Suburban Commuter Rail: Politically Attractive, Functionally Repulsive 19
Apr 19: Vulnerable roadway user laws gain momentum nationwide as more people bike and walk 0
Apr 18: The Rising Price of Gas Is the Talk of the Nation 22
Apr 18: EPA Region 7: “We were just kidding about that sustainability stuff” 0
Apr 15: An Australian Perspective on Urban-Suburban Politics 4
Apr 15: No Gas Tax Increase, Less Infrastructure 0
Apr 14: Portland Can’t Add Bike Parking Fast Enough to Please Businesses 3
Apr 14: The Difference Between ‘Tactical’ and ‘DIY’ Urbanism 0
Apr 13: Local Lawmakers: Don’t Mess With Texas Cyclists and Pedestrians 2
Apr 13: Of Parks, Podiums and Penumbras: How Density Changes Development 0
Apr 12: Livability Star Vancouver the Latest City to Look at Highway Removal 2
Apr 12: Laying the groundwork for a Sustainable Communities Strategy 0
Apr 11: Transit and Rail Likely to Take a Hit in Budget Compromise 0
Apr 11: Encino cyclist killed in Leucadia; local TV speculates an attempted vehicular serial killer could be at work 0
Apr 08: Activists’ Warnings About Miami’s Brickell Avenue Prove Prophetic 3
Apr 08: In a Split Second 0
Apr 07: The Ryan Budget: Doing the Same Thing, Expecting a Different Result 6
Apr 07: New Google Maps Feature Nudges Drivers to Consider Alternatives 1
Apr 06: In Energy-Uncertain Future, Indiana DOT Bets That Nothing Will Change 3
Apr 06: Atlanta Transit Expansion Comes Closer as Region Prepares for Tax Referendum 0
Apr 05: How Far Should Bike and Transit Advocates Take Their Alliance? 15
Apr 05: 3 Feet *and* 15 MPH? 5
Apr 04: Lavishing Developers With Publicly Funded Infrastructure in the D.C. Burbs 4
Apr 04: P.J. O’Rourke hates on bike lanes: What next? ‘Pogo-stick lanes’? 1
Apr 01: What L.A.’s 30/10 Plan Could Mean for Transit Funding Nationwide 4
Apr 01: NY State Budget Holds the Line on Transportation 0
Mar 31: Obama’s Energy Security Speech Misses the Mark 12
Mar 31: Cut foreign oil: Ride a bike 0
Mar 30: Pro-Sprawl Policies Help Make Milwaukee America’s Most Segregated Metro 7
Mar 30: Citywide Safe Routes to School Plan Needs Your Support 0
Mar 29: Bad Ideas 101: An Outer-Outerbelt for Charlotte 2
Mar 29: Misdemeanor manslaughter bill moves to MD Senate this week 0
Mar 28: Happy 35th Birthday, D.C. Metro 2
Mar 28: The Zoo Interchange — basic questions about a bad project in the making 0
Mar 25: Newsflash: Highways Are Handouts for Developers, Too 6
Mar 25: The law of unintended biking consequences — cities ignore bike safety at your peril 1
Mar 24: There’s a New Sheriff at Ohio DOT, and He Likes Asphalt 4
Mar 24: Defining “Urban” 0
Mar 23: Car Companies Vie for Supremacy in Distracted Driving Arms Race 9
Mar 23: Delmar Blvd and the Purpose of Arterial Roads 1
Mar 22: A Casino for Lower Manhattan? How Banishing Vice Can Backfire 7
Mar 22: Illinois Bicycling Advocates Consider Proposing Legislation To Keep Track of Dooring Incidents 0
Mar 21: Transit Agencies Seeking Operating Support Meet Politics as Usual 6
Mar 21: Another Pedestrian Killed on South Florida Streets 0
Mar 18: Sapping Street Life in Dallas, Ordinance by Ordinance 10
Mar 18: A short guide to ‘transportation health equity’ 0
Mar 17: Tea Party Conspiracy Theorists Descend on Charlottesville, VA 17
Mar 17: How we got to BIXI Toronto: an almost exhaustive background on bikesharing in Toronto 0
Mar 16: Downtowns Are Back, and They’re Bringing Central Neighborhoods Along 8
Mar 16: Seoul Boosts Transit Ridership with Color-Coded Buses and Other Reforms 0
Mar 15: Trying to Lure Google? Better Have Mixed-Use, Walkable Development 14
Mar 15: BikePGH receives “Advocacy Organization of the Year” from the Alliance for Biking & Walking 0
Mar 14: In Detroit, Competing Interests Offer Competing Visions for Rail 5
Mar 14: Op-Ed: Shouldn’t bicycle planning and facility design experts at least ride bikes? 0
Mar 10: Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. the Cincinnati Streetcar 21
Mar 10: On casual carpools, or “slugging” 0
Mar 09: State DOT “Improvements” Imperil Pedestrians in Florida 8
Mar 09: Do we need TOD Certification that goes beyond LEED Certification? 1
Mar 08: Bypasses of Bypasses: A Case Study on Induced Sprawl From North Carolina 1
Mar 08: Technology + Transportation; Making Efficient use of Transit Resources 0
Mar 07: Is Generational Turnover Necessary for the Return of Cities? 28
Mar 07: Financing the Nation’s Infrastructure in Our Age of Cutbacks 0
Mar 04: Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So 9
Mar 04: If we’re in an urban renaissance, why are cities still losing population? 0
Mar 03: Beyond Bus v. Rail: A Nuanced Approach to Evaluating Transit 27
Mar 03: Exactly the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Transit, Smart Growth, and High-Speed Rail 0
Mar 02: Is Driving on the Decline in the Pacific Northwest? 5
Mar 02: Walker Budget Eliminates Transit As Transportation, So No Dedicated Money From Gas Taxes 0
Mar 01: A Car Becomes a Weapon in Brazil; Pedestrians Shortchanged in Detroit 2
Mar 01: Simple ideas for healthy, livable cities 0
Feb 28: Condos, Parking Lots, and Transit: D.C.’s Transportation Crossroads 14
Feb 28: Down to the Line in Florida 0
Feb 25: Sprawl Wallops St. Louis With Eight Percent Population Loss 7
Feb 25: Why the Washington Post is wrong about high speed rail 0
Feb 24: Rochester Residents, Left Out of Transpo Bill Hearing, Create Their Own 1
Feb 24: NRDC Recognizes the Philadelphia Region for Transportation Innovation 0
Feb 23: MPC submits testimony to shape new federal transportation bill 0
Feb 23: Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker: Let Them Drive Cars 11
Feb 22: Less Is More: Highway Removal Could Make Buffalo a Better City 6
Feb 22: Orange County claims yet another biking victim 0
Feb 21: Summary of surface transport bill listening session from Indy 0
Feb 18: House Republicans Threaten Critical Transit Expansions Across the Nation 10
Feb 18: AASHTO, Facebook and Federal funding 0
Feb 17: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Has Some Strange Ideas About Job Creation 23
Feb 17: Sensible solution to major Illinois budget cut 0
Feb 16: LaHood: Rail Is the Way Forward 7
Feb 16: New Carsharing Association Aims to Reduce Car Ownership 0
Feb 15: Transportation Reformers Applaud Obama’s Six-Year Transpo Plan 6
Feb 15: BikingBis: Biking Fatalities, State By State 0
Feb 14: Is There Hope for an Infrastructure Bank? 0
Feb 14: Backwards Budgeting, City Love, and Dangerous Hybrids 3
Feb 14: How Did Boulder Do It? 0
Feb 11: When Will AASHTO Revise Its Policy Against Separated Bike Lanes? 18
Feb 11: The power of skyscrapers 0
Feb 10: More Cyclists = Safer Cycling in Minneapolis 13
Feb 10: Not Your Typical Greenwashing: Wash Cycle Laundry’s Bike-Centric Business Model 0
Feb 09: New Jersey’s TOD Tax Credit Is Producing Jobs 2
Feb 09: Smart Growth America: Invest in Maintenance and Transit, Not New Roads 0
Feb 08: Sprawl Breeds Sprawl 2
Feb 08: ARC Revived as the Amtrak Gateway Project 0
Feb 07: Virginia Tea Party: GOP Development Policies = Eco-Extremism 6
Feb 07: Bicyclists ask for better enforcement of traffic laws 0
Feb 04: Award-Winning Transit-Oriented Development May Never Get Transit 4
Feb 04: A Good Argument for Lowering Property Taxes 0
Feb 03: The Dividends of Car-Free Parenting 9
Feb 03: Engineering for Speed and Road Safety in D.C. 0
Feb 02: What Does John McCain Have Against Bikes at Airports? 25
Feb 02: Lets Make One Thing Clear, I Am Not Slowing You Down 0
Feb 01: How Cars Won the Early Battle for the Streets 22
Feb 01: Suburbs Pollute More than Cities 0
Jan 31: Rahm Emanuel’s Bike Plan for Chicago Gets High Marks 17
Jan 31: San Francisco: transit and endangered species 0
Jan 28: Measuring the Global Health Impact of Transportation Reform 6
Jan 28: The Explosive Growth of Bus Rapid Transit 0
Jan 27: The Long and Triumphant History of Women in Cycling 9
Jan 27: Alexandria cyclist ticketed for speeding 0
Jan 26: St. Louis: Plenty of Highways, Little Congestion, Long Commutes 2
Jan 26: Complete Streets Success Stories: Boulder, Seattle, Reston, Park Slope 0
Jan 25: Virginia Republican pursuing vendetta against Arlington for not wanting to be a “giant interchange” 0
Jan 25: Republican Opposition to Transit: A Geographic Explanation 23
Jan 24: Green Transportation Projects Moving Forward in Florida, Detroit 6
Jan 24: Taking Aim at Rail 0
Jan 21: The Maddening Wrongness of TTI’s Annual Urban Mobility Rankings 9
Jan 21: Blame Michelle Obama 0
Jan 20: Making Room for Modes Other Than Cars 1
Jan 20: ‘Cross-bikes’: Crosswalks for bikes coming soon to Portland? 0
Jan 19: Is It Time to Outlaw Car Radios? 27
Jan 19: Boulder Preparing to Rock Bike-sharing 0
Jan 18: Can Good Planning Tame the Suburban Retail Monster? 7
Jan 18: A Big Urban Victory – Mixed-Use and Fannie, Freddie and the FHA 0
Jan 14: Returning Streets to People in South Korea: The Political Dividend 8
Jan 14: Secretary LaHood meets with bicycling advocates; blogs about it 0
Jan 13: Oregon Lawmaker Wants to Outlaw Cycling With Young Children 24
Jan 13: CDC: 2/3 of US Adults back street improvements to make physical activity an easier choice 0
Jan 12: Cycling Up 70 Percent on London’s Bike Superhighways 7
Jan 12: CTA Contemplates Dramatic Changes for North Side Train Lines 0
Jan 11: Highway Expansion Rampant in Wisconsin, Which “Can’t Afford” Rail 20
Jan 11: What would get San Diegans to Bike More? 0
Jan 10: Going Car-Free in a Car-Centric City 11
Jan 10: Hearts go out to Rep. Giffords and Tucson community 0
Jan 07: In Iowa, Another Midwest HSR Plan in Jeopardy 7
Jan 07: Not all infrastructure is worth replacing 0
Jan 06: U.S. Auto Safety Standards: Undermining Efficiency, Ignoring Pedestrians 8
Jan 06: High growth city = poorer city? 0
Jan 05: A Lesson in Heading Off Anti-Reform Rhetoric 7
Jan 05: Make Driving More Dangerous? 0
Jan 04: Beating the Fare Hike Blues 5
Jan 04: You’re Welcome Mr. Motorist 0
Jan 03: A Transportation Manifesto For a New Decade 4
Jan 03: Quantifying the Value of Biking 0
2010
Dec 21: Demanding Action on a Deadly Road in Portland 2
Dec 21: In the Transportation Funding Heirarchy, Bikes Finish Last 0
Dec 20: Wooing the Hesitant Cyclist 10
Dec 20: DART exec explains Red Line/Green Line service levels 1
Dec 17: Arlington, Virginia: Livable By Design 7
Dec 17: DelDOT: 2010 Transit Riders Have Monthly Savings of $938 0
Dec 16: The Secret to Enjoying Winter: Ditch the Car 14
Dec 16: MapQuest Bike Directions: Answers from the Inside 0
Dec 15: Report: Commuters in Eugene, Oregon Have It Best 3
Dec 15: Plenty of Room for Growth in ‘Built-Out’ Communities 0
Dec 14: New Jersey Gets It Wrong on Parking Lot Privatization 9
Dec 14: Citizen activists request fixes to make streetcar tracks safer for cycling 0
Dec 13: How to Talk to a Conservative About Cycling 21
Dec 13: Why Doesn’t Someone Tell You to Drive Less? 1
Dec 10: Can Rear-View Cameras Make SUVs Safer? 10
Dec 10: Bye Bye Bikeshare, See You Next Spring 0
Dec 09: Reincarnated ARC Tunnel Funds Proposed to Support Auto Infrastructure 7
Dec 09: Temporary extension of surface transportation law will enable next Congress to pursue transformational reauthorization in 2011 0
Dec 08: Fort Worth City Council Smothers Streetcar in Its Crib 7
Dec 08: Getting bikes into the “Wheels” sections of newspapers 0
Dec 07: D.C.’s Metro Sees Cycling as an Opportunity to Grow Ridership 6
Dec 07: Bicycle Safety May Be Added to New York Driver Education Classes 0
Dec 06: In Dallas, Sprawling City Form Hampers Shift to Light Rail 26
Dec 06: Study: Rush-Hour Bike Speeds Compare Favorably to Cars 0
Dec 03: Fire Officials Challenge Street Safety Improvements in Virginia 12
Dec 03: With Common-Sense Reforms, Hoboken Becoming an NJ Model 0
Dec 02: Lessons For St. Louis From the UK’s “20′s Plenty” Campaign 3
Dec 02: Aussie study finds drivers at fault 87% of conflicts with bicyclists 0
Dec 01: Linking Transportation, Food Access and Health 6
Dec 01: Ten affordable neighborhoods-in-progress will design to LEED-ND standards under grant program 0
Nov 30: The Final Push to Preserve an Important Benefit for Transit Riders 3
Nov 30: Feds to NJ: Give us back our $271 million 0
Nov 29: Multi-Family Developers: Easy Targets, Unintended Consequences 9
Nov 29: Designing communities for health: tools and resources 0
Nov 24: The Florida State DOT vs. Livability 3
Nov 24: A Quick Lesson In The Art Of The Two-Wheeled Winter Commute 0
Nov 23: A Better Block on Broad 0
Nov 23: A Former Traffic Engineer on the Industry’s Perverse Standards 7
Nov 22: Using Parking Fees to Reduce Street Consumption 12
Nov 22: Will Wal-Mart be urban, part 1: Brightwood 0
Nov 19: Garage to Condo: The Case for Convertible Parking Space 10
Nov 19: The Revolution Will Be…Built 0
Nov 18: Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact the Future of Car Sharing? 22
Nov 18: “We see the bike as a solution” 0
Nov 17: European Carmakers Get Into the Bicycle Business 14
Nov 17: DC’s Bike Share Proliferation 0
Nov 16: Shocker: Returning $3B to Feds Won’t Cure Ailing NJ Transpo Budget 9
Nov 16: Why the federal gas tax isn’t covering our needs 0
Nov 15: Retrofitting the Suburban Strip 11
Nov 15: WTF? What’s up with gender and bikes? 0
Nov 12: “As Efficient as a U-Haul” — One Family’s Story of Moving by Bike 7
Nov 12: As a New Congress Sets Up Shop, Questions About the Future of Transportation Funding 0
Nov 11: U.S. Trade Deficit Joined at the Hip to U.S. Oil Dependence 3
Nov 11: Is Georgia Spawning Rail Republicans? 0
Nov 10: A Promising Start for Minneapolis Bike-Sharing 9
Nov 10: Would ‘strict liability’ help curb America’s distracted driving habit? 0
Nov 09: How Indianapolis Could Raise the Bar for Midwest Transit Investment 3
Nov 09: Seeking traffic justice across the country 0
Nov 08: Estranged Bedfellows: Trains and Conservatism 17
Nov 08: Seniors and Road Safety in Car Dependant Places 0
Nov 05: Young People on Car Ownership: Meh 22
Nov 05: Apple Gets into Mass Transit 1
Nov 04: Columbus Developers: Transit Riders Are Bad for Business 26
Nov 04: Transportation bill a prime chance for bipartisan achievement in a divided government 1
Nov 03: The Fiscal Argument for Transportation Reform 3
Nov 03: What a Republican-controlled House would mean for bicycling 0
Nov 02: In Austin and Around the Nation: Big Stakes for Green Transportation 0
Nov 02: Progressive Parking Pricing 0
Nov 01: Could Restructuring the Gas Tax Fund the Transportation Bill? 1
Nov 01: Transportation and Equality 0
Oct 29: Separating Cyclists From Air Pollution 12
Oct 29: Seattle Children’s Hospital to Invest $2M to Improve Bike and Ped Infrastructure 0
Oct 28: Becoming a YIMBY for Livable Communities 9
Oct 28: Breakin’ the law and proud of it! 1
Oct 27: Cycling Tips From a Bike-Commuting Bus Driver 30
Oct 27: Would you rather have free parking and dirty sidewalks or paid parking and clean sidewalks? 0
Oct 26: How One Arizona Town Is Encouraging People to Get High and Drive 12
Oct 26: The Senate livability bill has no teeth. That’s okay 0
Oct 25: The Case Against Linking Bike Safety Improvements to Cyclists’ Behavior 25
Oct 25: Goldhagen: “Democracies Need Physical Spaces” 0
Oct 22: The Shrinking American House: A Sign of a Cultural Shift? 8
Oct 22: Dramatic Study on Health, Air Quality and Congestion finds EZ-Pass Saves Lives 0
Oct 21: Can Suburbs and Sustainability Coexist? 4
Oct 21: TIGER II grants to 75 innovative projects will change the transportation landscape, create jobs in 40 states 0
Oct 20: In Detroit, a Long-Overdue Push to Create a Cohesive Transit System 1
Oct 20: Drivers should love Toronto’s bike box, too 0
Oct 19: How Walkable Are the Streets Near Your Transit Stop? 1
Oct 19: Want to walk to school? Laguna Beach says nope, not here 0
Oct 18: How Would You Define Transit-Oriented Development? 12
Oct 18: TIGER II Grants Given to Highway Removal Projects 0
Oct 15: The Fitness Gap: Americans Walk Far Less Than People in Other Countries 14
Oct 15: Transportation Alternatives Takes On Queens Boulevard 0
Oct 14: Which Cities Are Making the Quickest Shift Away From Cars? 2
Oct 14: Managed lanes with peak-period transit discounts in Minneapolis 0
Oct 13: Sounding the Alarm on Bike-Ped Deaths and Injuries in D.C. 4
Oct 13: Still more evidence of the network effect in bicycle safety 0
Oct 12: The Pay Toilet: Coming Soon to a Street Corner Near You? 24
Oct 12: ARC Tunnel on Life-Support after Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood Intervened 0
Oct 08: In Death of ARC Tunnel, Political Grandstanding Trumps Governing 15
Oct 08: In Delaware, Complete Streets Mandate comes to mean “Routine Accommodation” 0
Oct 07: Mourning the Potential Loss of Bus Service in Long Island 5
Oct 07: Nashville Mayor Signs Executive Order for Complete Streets 1
Oct 06: Questioning Obama’s Transpo Legacy as Fresno County Sprawls 4
Oct 06: Nation’s Transit Systems 1% Closer to Being Fixed 0
Oct 05: Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets? 4
Oct 05: Jane Jacobs: Going beyond the simple needs 0
Oct 04: Given a Choice, NJ and PA Sacrifice Bike-Ped Funding 1
Oct 04: Hey Tea Party, Let’s Get Cars Off Welfare 0
Oct 01: Bike Boxes Stoke Motorist Resentment in Seattle 19
Oct 01: The Style, The Substance. It’s all important. 0
Sep 30: How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl 8
Sep 30: Avoiding car-centered language: a directive 0
Sep 29: New Orleans, Honolulu Rocket Up the Bike Commute Charts 6
Sep 29: Seattle Mayor Proposes $13 Million for Alt-Transportation In His Slash and Burn Budget 0
Sep 28: Investigative Series on Transpo Safety Overlooks Most Vulnerable Travelers 1
Sep 28: MDX Should Not Build More Unnecessary Highways to Justify Its Existence 0
Sep 27: When It Comes to Successful Transit, Density Is Not Destiny 7
Sep 27: Active transport advocates, tranportation officials live in “separate bubbles” 0
Sep 24: “Forgiving” Distracted Driving Won’t Keep Our Streets Safe 19
Sep 24: Getting the Youth of Today Involved in Public Transportation for Tomorrow 0
Sep 23: Development Near Transit Too Pricey? Build More Transit 3
Sep 23: Long Island’s Killer Road Claims Another Life 0
Sep 22: Reclaiming the Streets on World Car Free Day 4
Sep 22: New Ozone Standards Could Mean Change for Upstate New York 0
Sep 21: The Local Planning Commission: Still Hindering Progress Toward Walkability 2
Sep 21: PARK(ing) Day Post Mortem 0
Sep 20: The Psychology of Road Rage: How Cars Transform Others Into Obstacles 19
Sep 20: Breathe a little easier: American Lung Association study backs smart growth 0
Sep 17: Making Transportation Safer for “Invisible Cyclists” 13
Sep 17: Illinois Introduces $5M Green Infrastructure Grant Program 0
Sep 16: The Unnatural Demise (and Possible Revival) of the Baltimore Streetcar 5
Sep 16: USC Enacts Partial Bike Ban 1
Sep 15: In Miami, Advocating for Parking Surplus to Pay for Better Transit 1
Sep 15: Promoting Bicycling in Local Climate Action Plans 0
Sep 14: Portland School Casts Off Bike Ban, Embraces Cycling 1
Sep 14: Why the SR 167 Extension is a Bad Idea 0
Sep 13: Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick 28
Sep 13: Connecting Low-Wage Workers With Job Opportunities 0
Sep 09: Leinberger: Infrastructure Bank the Right Prescription for Ailing Economy 3
Sep 09: Don’t block the box… or else? 0
Sep 08: Green Transportation Depends on Reining in Space for Cars 3
Sep 08: Speak Up, Florida: Don’t Unfairly Cut Funding for Trails, Walking and Bicycling! 0
Sep 07: First Impressions of Obama’s Big Infrastructure Announcement 9
Sep 07: Long Beach CA’s Innovative Bicycle Priority Lanes 0
Sep 03: Traffic Death Experts Ignore the Role of Dangerous Streets 6
Sep 03: WisDOT Delivers The Marquette Interchange On Time, Under Budget, And Below Par 0
Sep 02: Livability: A Small Town Value 2
Sep 02: Fixing the World’s Deadliest Streets 0
Sep 01: Debunking the Myth of Motorist Entitlement to Monopolize the Road 13
Sep 01: ‘Might makes right’ versus ‘duty of care’ on the roads 0
Aug 31: One More Legal Hurdle for Texas Cyclists 7
Aug 31: FedEx Makes More Efficient Deliveries with Zero Emissions Electric Bikes 0
Aug 30: Winning Votes for Transit: Lessons From a Conservative 4
Aug 30: It’s the Driving (Not the Texting), Stupid 0
Aug 27: DC Region Thinks Bigger for Bike-Sharing 2
Aug 27: Has Critical Mass Outgrown its Purpose in San Diego? 1
Aug 26: Proof From Jersey That Laws Protecting Crosswalks Don’t Endanger Peds 4
Aug 26: Running bike-sharing networks through smartphones 0
Aug 25: In Support of Atlanta’s Streetcar Proposal 9
Aug 25: Study: Road Diets Reduce Collisions 0
Aug 24: In Atlanta’s TIGER Bid, Innovative “Beltline” Takes Backseat to Streetcar 7
Aug 24: SLUGGING & BEYOND: First Regional Slugging & Dynamic Ridesharing Meeting (Ever) 0
Aug 23: New Evidence Links Sprawl to Parking Minimums 11
Aug 23: Mayor Bloomburg Pushes for Bike Sharing in NYC 0
Aug 20: The Public Hazards of Privatizing Infrastructure 17
Aug 20: There’s money to be made by living near transit 1
Aug 19: Texas Judge Deems Cyclist Guilty for Riding on the Road 19
Aug 19: Living Near Public Transportation May Lengthen Your Life 0
Aug 18: Wisconsin Gov Candidate Threatens Rail Extension 18
Aug 18: Bike/Ped Improvements Proposed for St. Louis’ Gateway Arch 0
Aug 17: New Complete Streets Policies in Two States 0
Aug 17: Houston METRO Expands Access By Removing Seats 1

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