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Angie Schmitt

Angie Schmitt is a recovering newspaper reporter who joined Streetsblog in 2010. A Cleveland (yes, Ohio) resident, she has a master's degree in urban planning and maintains a Network blog (rustwire.com) that focuses on industrial cities.
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Posts by Angie

• 2012

• May 23: Bike Registration Laws: A License to Profile? 0
• May 23: Delaware is among top 10 bicycle-friendly states in U.S. 0
• May 22: When Outdated Environmental Laws Prevent Sustainable Development 4
• 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? 9
• 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? 6
• May 10: New survey shows overwhelming support for bike facilities 0
• May 09: Pittsburgh Faces a Transit Doomsday 13
• 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 31
• 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 3
• 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 48
• 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 10
• 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 17
• 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 11
• 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 9
• 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 20
• 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 13
• 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 52
• 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 4
• 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 9
• 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 7
• 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 53
• 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 2
• 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 12
• 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 9
• 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 9
• 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? 33
• 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 7
• 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 0
• 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? 24
• 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 9
• 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 29
• 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? 23
• 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 18
• 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