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May 2013

Mon 20: Wayfinding in a Liveable City

Fri 17: Bikes and equity: bicycling benefits all communities

Thu 16: More evidence that Helmet Laws don't make us safer

Wed 15: NYC: Give to Streetsblog By Thursday and You Could Win Goodies From Planet Bike

Tue 14: Crowd-Funding Our Way To A Better Troost Corridor

Mon 13: Holy Hubway: Hubway Set To Break A Million Trips

Fri 10: Using development charges as a transit funding mechanism

Thu 9: With new study, air travel subsidies get another pass

Wed 8: Put rooftop bars atop empty parking garages?

Tue 7: Study highlights importance of travel time as a metric

Mon 6: Godwin’s Law

Fri 3: Who's blocking the L Street bike lane today, and what can we do?

Wed 1: Washington ranked #1 among Bicycle Friendly States

Wed 1: The rise of Motordom and how we learned to blame the victim

April 2013

Tue 30: Long distance trains don't work?

Mon 29: Bicycle Parking Now Allowed At Kauffman Stadium

Fri 26: Passenger rail an economic driver

Thu 25: Portland: 3 reasons retailers love replacing car parking with bikes

Thu 25: Old Big Box Stores Live On, Some Too Long

Wed 24: Hoboken Announces Unprecedented “Hybrid” Bike Share Model

Tue 23: Freight rail traffic is growing but urban conflicts hinder infrastructure expansion

Mon 22: The Case for (and Against) Public Subsidy for Public Transport

Thu 18: Models for tackling climate change at the regional level

Wed 17: Congratulations to Virginia’s New Bicycle Friendly Universities

Tue 16: Detroit, Redux

Mon 15: Transit for Everyone

Fri 12: World Health Organization report connects road safety with mass transport

Thu 11: A misinformed driver almost right hooked me

Wed 10: Are We There Yet? Older Americans

Tue 9: Florida’s Most Well-Connected Cities

Mon 8: World Health Day: 5 questions on how transport is related to health

Fri 5: Guerrilla road safety group ‘politely’ installs illegal bike lane protectors on Cherry Street

Thu 4: Bikes and Peds Vs. Cars - Data from New York

Wed 3: Driver in video attack pleads guilty but could have charges dismissed

Tue 2: Aging Among Friends: The Need To Make Cities Places For The Young– And The Aging

Mon 1: In Fresno, is lack of spending on transit keeping unemployment high?

March 2013

Thu 28: Family biking ready to boom in 2013

Wed 27: Oregon House bill would make bike paths (and more) eligible for highway trust fund

Tue 26: Tulsa Advocates: Fix Our Streets!

Mon 25: Crashes - and communities' deadly preferences

Fri 22: Capturing the Value of Public Transportation

Thu 21: Integrating transit media with debit-credit card functions could be very expensive for the rider

Wed 20: What would happen without parking requirements?

Tue 19: Little has changed with the latest edition of the engineers report card on US infrastructure

Mon 18: Mayors Make It Happen

Fri 15: Scott Walker Adds 32% To Wisc. Transportation (Read: Highways) Budget

Thu 14: What is an Equity-Based Transport System?

Wed 13: Cleveland Leads North American Cities in Bus Rapid Transit

Tue 12: A smart gax tax for South Carolina

Mon 11: Building Trails To Support Kansas Tourism

Fri 8: Size Doesn't Matter

Thu 7: Business impact of bicycling dominates Capitol Hill meetings

Wed 6: More cause than cash: The bike lobby comes of age

Tue 5: The Car: America’s Original Individual Mandate?

Mon 4: A cycling perspective on Detroit’s Emergency Finance Manager

Fri 1: What If Your Street Belonged to Kids on Saturdays?

February 2013

Thu 28: Washington Examiner declares War on Solutions

Wed 27: Is the "man-covery" responsible for 2012's increase in vehicle deaths?

Tue 26: Per capita VMT ticks down for eighth straight year

Mon 25: Does Miami want to be a REAL city?

Fri 22: Astoria, Oregon gives pedestrians orange flags for visibility

Thu 21: Unequal sequestration cuts show the need for a real transportation fund

Wed 20: Florida’s Speeding Cops

Tue 19: Time to worry about important things?

Fri 15: AAA fights to keep unnecessary parking rules

Thu 14: Who are the ‘urbanists,’ anyway?

Wed 13: Stamford “Transit” Oriented Development

Tue 12: Public transit saves 6.9 million hours of delay in Portland traffic: Study

Mon 11: Providence: Plowing done wrong

Fri 8: Maryland Lawmaker Defends Mandatory Helmet Bill

Wed 6: The Potential of Small Town Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning

Tue 5: War on cars continues: bike lane takes 0.2% of parking!

Mon 4: Merits and Aesthetics in the Density Argument

Fri 1: Why smarter land use can help cities attract and retain young adults

Fri 1: Too fast

January 2013

Thu 31: LaHood Goes 5 for 5 on the National Bike Summit

Wed 30: Secretary LaHood's Legacy: Stronger, Safer Transportation Choices for All Americans

Tue 29: Three Ways to Improve Walkability Without Touching the Street

Mon 28: Sustainable transportation Nantucket style

Fri 25: Where’s the Outrage Over Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths?

Thu 24: Safer sidewalks ahead for Charlotte

Wed 23: Why the renewed attention to subway-related deaths?

Tue 22: Great bike access helps score great workers, Portland firms say

Fri 18: The Placement of the Automobile in Seattle vs. Phoenix

Thu 17: Santa Fe Declares War on Pedestrians

Wed 16: Charging by the mile, a gas tax alternative, sees serious movement

Tue 15: Making the Most of MAP-21

Mon 14: A Century Later, Grand Central Still Spurs Development

Fri 11: New Analysis Calls for Improvements in Tracking Pedestrian Fatalities in New Jersey

Thu 10: More than $64.3B to be invested in North American rail transit in 2013

Wed 9: NYC: Thanks to Everyone Who Gave to Streetsblog and Streetfilms in 2012

Tue 8: Suburban sprawl could destroy up to 34 million acres of forests, says new study

Mon 7: The power of "creative placemaking"

Fri 4: Drunk driving prevention is difficult, but we already know what it takes

Thu 3: Who Are the Important Players for Bicycling in the 113th Congress?

Wed 2: Fiscal cliff deal restores transit benefit

Wed 2: You Get What You Measure

December 2012

Thu 20: The CYCLE Continues - William Penn Supports RTC's Work in Camden

Wed 19: Coral Gables Knocks Out Own Front Teeth

Mon 17: Inside the MTA’s $4.7B Capital Request for Sandy

Thu 13: Being a City Planner In a Room Full of Engineers

Wed 12: ODOT tames rural highway in La Pine with buffered bike lanes

Tue 11: City reports double digit bike to school rates for first time ever

Mon 10: Why cyclists need police understanding, not crackdowns

Fri 7: Apparently it is Possible to Have Too Much Parking

Thu 6: Can Davis make Diamond??

Wed 5: Bike Ped Plans In Brigantine, Pleasantville and Atlantic City

Tue 4: Murphy’s Law: How State Aid to Cities Has Plummeted

Mon 3: Contributory negligence - one person's story

November 2012

Fri 30: Stagnation, progress in Chicago trigger ideas for President Obama's second term

Thu 29: EPA honors seven outstanding community sustainability projects

Wed 28: Livable Streets Advance Thanks to CT Advocates, Municipalities

Tue 27: Don’t Walk in Sonoma County

Mon 26: Why the 85th Percentile Rule still matters

Wed 21: Sandy an Opportunity to Refocus New Jersey’s Transportation Priorities

Tue 20: Bike-Friendly Ballot Measure Hangs on 0.1 Percent of the Vote

Mon 19: More Bike, Less Pike

Fri 16: The same "empty buses" fallacy, over and over

Thu 15: Peak Car Use and Burgeoning Cycling Volumes in Baltimore

Wed 14: Jarvis bike lane erasing continues with slow rolling protest

Tue 13: New Orleans Gets Jazzed Over Bike Funding

Mon 12: It’s Policy, Not Preference, that Shapes Cities

Fri 9: Traffic court notes

Thu 8: Parking Rightsizing

Wed 7: In Obama’s second term, distinctive transportation policy should change focus to walking and bicycling

Tue 6: Election 2012 Results Central - Transportation Edition

Mon 5: Slow down, and pipe down

Fri 2: The EPA Warned About Climate Change Flooding Since Bush - - 2003

Thu 1: Biking and walking rule in a city sans subway

October 2012

Wed 31: Danish 180% Tax on Cars is Rather Irrelevant

Mon 29: Flat fare falls flat

Thu 25: More Dangerous Than Public Service or Public Works: Miami Roads

Wed 24: How auditors get transit wrong: a lesson from Vancouver

Tue 23: Federal Highway Administration interprets transpo bill; good news, bad news

Mon 22: Bike lanes and quiet streets make cycling safer, but the safest of all are cycle tracks: study finds

Fri 19: Cascade launches bike-friendly business certification program

Thu 18: Debate again ignores urban issues

Wed 17: Boston Gives Away 100 Free Bicycles to Kids

Tue 16: Seattle’s first cycletrack!

Mon 15: Bike Pooling Rolls On

Fri 12: Using Technology to Target Cycling Investment

Thu 11: Seen This Bad Movie Before

Wed 10: 120,000 People, 0 Cars

Tue 9: TODERIAN: It’s not about the bike or car —it’s about better cities

Fri 5: Four Important Frames in Marketing Cycling to Women (WBS12)

Thu 4: Safe Routes to School benefits kids and the community

Wed 3: It ain’t necessarily so — new study proclaims L.A. one of the nation’s most dangerous places to walk or ride

Tue 2: Is there a member of the ITE who will stand up against bad road designs?

Mon 1: But, but, jaywalking isn't illegal

September 2012

Fri 28: Remember when we talked about capping the Cleveland Innerbelt?

Thu 27: Be Who You Are- Only Better!

Wed 26: Mayor’s proposed budget shows strong support for bicycling — action needed

Tue 25: Opportunity for States to Protect Land Use

Mon 24: MDOT adds buffered bike lanes to Northwestern Highway

Fri 21: Shared Space: A crazy idea?

Thu 20: Tell Governor Gregoire Safe Routes to School is not expendable

Wed 19: New Report: Departments of Transportation Can Innovate Through Transit-Oriented Development

Tue 18: Are urban big box stores good or bad?

Mon 17: Infill opportunities? Connecting the dots with used car lots.

Fri 14: Iowa town bans bikes

Thu 13: Boston's Hubway bike system finally nears 100 stations

Wed 12: ODOT, Sandy Blvd, and the curse of outdated design manuals

Tue 11: Chicago’s first pedestrian plan includes great ideas, lacks some information

Mon 10: How communities can support walkability and be recognized for it

Fri 7: Big Houses, Small Lots, and the Seattle Problem

Thu 6: Seattle Could Prohibit Some Small-Lot Development

Wed 5: Cities, sustainable placemaking, and the careful use of words

Tue 4: Quick Note: Are Freeways Safer?

August 2012

Fri 31: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Centrally Planned City

Thu 30: Study: Oregon, Washington drivers' gas consumption at lowest level in nearly 50 years

Wed 29: Real Talk: How Much Power Does the City Really Have to Do Away With the Downtown Parking Glut?

Tue 28: Beyond Spandex, Toward Social Justice: Women Redefining the Movement

Mon 27: LA finally gets serious about fixing its sidewalks

Fri 24: Boston case shows declining car volume on major street

Thu 23: Ayn Rand on Urbanism

Wed 22: Pedestrian signals: Faster than never

Tue 21: WisDOT To West Allis - - You're Nothing But An I-94 Bypass

Mon 20: Constitutional Amendment Would Send More State Funds To Local Roads

Fri 17: Civil engineer helps bring change to Des Plaines

Thu 16: Rail Picking Up Steam in the East and Midwest

Wed 15: Shit we can't keep in the street

Tue 14: Select Bus Service Thoughts

Mon 13: Freeways Don’t Need to be a Housing Show-Stopper

Fri 10: Failed Justice: Street Racing Killer of Pro Cyclist Jorge Alvarado Gets Off With Just 90 Days in Jail

Thu 9: Navigating MAP-21: How Much Money Will My State Get?

Wed 8: Port Report Predicts Dire Impacts From Proposed Arena

Tue 7: China Transportation Briefing: Stemming the Tide of Private Autos in Guangzhou

Mon 6: Where There Were Once Many Lines Planned, Just One Opens in Miami

Fri 3: 'Potholes for Poverty' a novel way to smooth streets

Thu 2: Amtrak California ridership continues to grow in 2012

Wed 1: Bike Leaders Honored by White House as Champions of Change

July 2012

Tue 31: Yglesias: Where's our suburban parking reform? And parking likened to chairs!

Mon 30: How far will we walk to go somewhere? It depends.

Fri 27: Will Your State Fully Fund Bicycling and Walking?

Thu 26: Researcher considers cargo bikes as tools for social justice

Wed 25: The Utility of Cars in Cities

Tue 24: Kinzie Street crash story: Report them all

Mon 23: Bad Ideas in Sacramento County

Fri 20: Health Care Savings From Walking, Biking and Riding Transit

Thu 19: Why are we losing the war on sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives?

Wed 18: Portending a single fare system for bikes and transit

Tue 17: To the end of free parking–happy birthday parking meter!

Mon 16: What is "infrastructure," anyway? Industry report highlights 100 leading city projects

Fri 13: Safe Routes to School Funding

Thu 12: Tiny Apartments: Good or Bad for Urban Living?

Wed 11: California city limits bike parking in public areas

Tue 10: Caltrans Dislikes Ghost Bike Memorials that Honor Bicyclist’s Lives

Mon 9: Public's demand for limited carbon emissions mysteriously ignored by government it elects

Fri 6: PA's Hit and Run Loophole Mostly Closed

Thu 5: Montgomery's McMansions will need to find a new purpose

Tue 3: Cars, Costs, and the Working Poor

Mon 2: Unravelling of modes

June 2012

Fri 29: Transportation Bill a Step Back

Thu 28: Fix the Hennepin/Lyndale Bottleneck

Wed 27: Why we subsidize bikesharing

Tue 26: New Renderings of South Main Street Remake – More Space for People

Mon 25: “Traffic is a social problem” and what’s needed is “an outbreak of civility”

Fri 22: Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By

Thu 21: Dear Indiana, please repurpose my taxes

Wed 20: What if bus stops were designed as if bus stops really mattered?

Tue 19: Revised Bicycle Laws: When Conversation Is Criminal

Mon 18: A Bipartisan Push for Rail in Virginia Produces Ridership Successes

Fri 15: Threats to Walking and Biking as Federal Talks Continue

Thu 14: Minneapolis Gives Streets a Chance

Wed 13: City Cycling Book Examines How to Get More Women Biking

Tue 12: A Decision-Support Framework For Using Value Capture to Fund Public Transit: Lessons From Project-Specific Analyses

Mon 11: Bike Advocacy on the Move in Ohio

Fri 8: Tell Albany to Give Transit Riders the Break They Deserve!

Thu 7: Connecticut Must Leave Road Expansions in Rear-View

Wed 6: Survey: 100% of Facts Think anti-TSPLOST Advocates are Wrong

Tue 5: Women leaders in the Detroit bicycle movement

Mon 4: What does being 39th mean?

Fri 1: How to Use the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide for Local Project Advocacy

May 2012

Thu 31: Senate plan to give local communities more control in making their streets safer could be in jeopardy

Wed 30: New TSTC-AARP Report: Seniors, Low-Income New Yorkers Hit Hard by Transit Cuts

Tue 29: On the problem with unfunded federal safety mandates

Fri 25: What would $2 billion of BRT look like?

Thu 24: Connecticut Breaks Ground on Busway

Wed 23: Delaware is among top 10 bicycle-friendly states in U.S.

Tue 22: Why Every Bicycle Counts and What We Can Learn from Fatal Crashes

Mon 21: Why are there more bollards being installed in Arlington County?

Fri 18: Eyes on Milwaukee: Tour the Talgo Trains You Might Never Ride

Thu 17: South Brunswick High School Students Seek Sidewalk

Wed 16: High-Speed Rail Construction Timeline

Tue 15: Over 28,000 turn out for first Sunday Parkways of the year

Mon 14: Dissent of the week: uk bus policy and "profitability"

Fri 11: Kicking off “Transportation Vote 2012″

Thu 10: New survey shows overwhelming support for bike facilities

Wed 9: Society, Equity and Bike Sharing Systems

Tue 8: Living car-free in the Motor City

Mon 7: Sunday Train: The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Iowa Rapid-Rail Road

Fri 4: Awesome Example Of Roads/Rail Double-Standards from Wisconsin

Thu 3: NPR feature on biking to school

Wed 2: Sierra Club and Bike League Tell Congress to Stop Shortchanging Bicyclists

Tue 1: “Complete Streets” Policies Sweeping Across New Jersey

April 2012

Mon 30: Paved with good intentions

Fri 27: TIFIA Loan Denial Shows Need to Improve Tappan Zee Project

Thu 26: Carbon Footprint of a High-Speed Train

Wed 25: D.C. wants three out of every four Washingtonians car-free in 20 years

Tue 24: Seattle Gets First Look at Ambitious, But Challenging Climate Action Plan

Mon 23: Philly: Center City Parking Requirements: How Low Can (And Should) You Go?

Fri 20: Newark Is Apparently Not a City Either

Thu 19: Trinity toll road opponents launch online campaign in Dallas; will they seek to put question on ballot?

Wed 18: Bicycle-Friendly Businesses Are Booming: 67 New BFBs Announced

Tue 17: $27 million for Newark streets and barely a dime for bicyclists

Mon 16: Bike and proud: Red Bike and Green promotes cycling to African Americans

Fri 13: The Value and Efficiency of Small Block Structure

Thu 12: Chicago speed camera proposal – safety measure, money grab, or does it matter?

Wed 11: Calming big boulevards

Tue 10: Is Parking (or Avoiding it) the Killer App for car2go?

Mon 9: Transit getting more Americans where they need to go

Fri 6: 50 years after historic JFK message to Congress, transportation still the thread that connects our nation

Thu 5: It’s National Walking Day, but too many people will have to walk unsafe streets

Wed 4: Urban Living as Antidote to Oil Price Fluctuation

Tue 3: The New HSR Plan: Smart Move

Mon 2: Assessing our Future

March 2012

Fri 30: Bike To Work, Save $17 Billion

Thu 29: Baltimore Property-tax Reduction Plan on the Move

Wed 28: A House Divided: Transportation Law Delayed, Yet Again

Tue 27: New Census Geographies Tell an Ambigious Urban Story

Mon 26: L.A.’s Westside Subway is Practically Ready for Construction, But Its Completion Could be 25 Years Off

Fri 23: Minnesotans Driving Less, Taking Transit a lot More

Thu 22: Bike Lanes: The New Job Creators?

Wed 21: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Action is Afoot (and a-Bicycle, for that matter)

Tue 20: Figuring out how many CMAQ projects are for roads

Mon 19: Public Health Crisis in South Florida

Fri 16: Fixing the House bill: Cutting regulatory burdens and bureaucracy

Thu 15: Bipartisan? Comparing the 2012 bills to past transportation bill votes

Wed 14: Can affordability share space with infill development?

Tue 13: New Report on Statewide Organizations and Federal Funding

Mon 12: The Campus Iconic

Fri 9: Can good web content build the bike movement?

Thu 8: Urban Identity: Citizens and their Cities

Wed 7: Colorado’s Heatherwood Elementary and Wisconsin’s Omro Middle School earn 2011 Safe Routes to School Award

Tue 6: Misuse of air quality funds

Mon 5: Forgive and Forget

Fri 2: Transit Fast Forward changing the conversation around transit funding

Thu 1: Take That, Portland: Seattle Uses Transit More, But Use Drops With Income

February 2012

Wed 29: Riders for Better Transit to Promote Legislation to Index Gas Tax to Inflation

Fri 24: WTF?! “The Lorax” Gives Mazda “The only Certified Truffula Tree Seal of Approval”

Thu 23: Are Urban Arterials and Pedestrian Safety Mutually Exclusive?

Wed 22: Cities as Vacation Destinations

Tue 21: What could live smaller, work closer trend mean for sprawl region?

Fri 17: Parties and the Urban Agenda

Thu 16: House transportation bill: What’s at stake for Chicago

Wed 15: Walking in Seattle: These 28 Seattleites died walking on road diet candidate streets last decade

Tue 14: With Transportation Enhancement Funds, Communities Can Create Smarter Options

Mon 13: North Carolina and Virginia States Pick Preferred Alternatives For High-Speed Rail

Fri 10: Oregon looks beyond gas tax as mileage-based tax evolves

Wed 8: Study Finds TE Projects The Most Efficient Job Creator of All Transportation Construction

Tue 7: Capital Bikeshare Striving to Become Financially Self-Sufficient

Mon 6: Landmark diesel exhaust study stalled amid industry and Congressional objections

Fri 3: Congestion, envy and equity

Thu 2: Blumenauer, DeFazio blast Republicans over transpo bill

Wed 1: Horrible Surface Transportation Bill Unveiled Today — Bicycle Programs Eliminated

January 2012

Tue 31: Smart Growth is Good Sense, Not Partisan Politics

Mon 30: Conscientious Objectors: Long Beach Shuns ‘Motordom’, Strives To Become America’s Most Bike-Friendly City

Fri 27: TRANSPORTATION FAILINGS A LIFE AND DEATH ISSUE

Thu 26: Pattern Watch: Parklets Arrive in Long Beach

Wed 25: House on the verge of releasing a transportation bill tied to increased oil drilling

Tue 24: D.C. ranks as America's second best city for biking and walking

Mon 23: A response to my WA-OR sprawl post: urban growth boundaries aren't necessarily enough

Fri 20: Albuquerque: A Bronze Level Bicycle-Ambivalent Community

Thu 19: Charlotte rail financing has elements of Cotton Belt

Wed 18: BREAKING NEWS! 3 Ft Passing Law Introduced (in Nebraska)!

Tue 17: Why You Should Support California High-Speed Rail, Part Two

Fri 13: Want to spend less than $4,200 a year on gas?

Thu 12: See-Rent-Ride: Bikeshare changes the way people see the city

Wed 11: Is this What SCDOT Really Wants??

Tue 10: DC: Banking and Bikesharing

Mon 9: McDonnell’s budget proposal funds Lynchburg-to-DC train for two more years

Thu 5: Get Ready For New Wisconsin Road Taxes, Fees, And/Or Tolls

Wed 4: In praise of Really Narrow Streets

Tue 3: Car culture and kids toys

December 2011

Thu 22: A future for Roosevelt Island, but what of transportation?

Wed 21: Columbia, MO, city council allows skating, skateboarding on city streets

Tue 20: Wherein I Agree with New Geography

Mon 19: Wouldn't it be nice if media followed up on hit and runs?

Fri 16: Using bikes for serious emissions reduction

Thu 15: Senate committee takes positive steps for freight, multimodalism, performance and safer streets

Wed 14: In-Roads at the Intersection of Safety and Creativity

Tue 13: Pedestrian injuries spike; Senate committee considers an amendment for the safety of all road users

Mon 12: All Activity is Not Created Equal

Fri 9: In my opinion: On livability and the CRC, USDOT Sec LaHood can't have it both ways

Thu 8: College Ave In-Street Rail: Exploring the Feasibility…

Wed 7: No war on cars

Tue 6: Basic questions about "cost/benefit analysis"

Mon 5: Comparing bike share system popularity on Facebook

Fri 2: On North Williams, Stopping to Listen – And Finding the Way Forward

Thu 1: Planning Advocates Call For Amendments to Economic Development Bill

November 2011

Wed 30: Can you say ‘sprawl’? Walmart’s biggest climate impact goes ignored

Tue 29: Hubway To Expand Next Year

Mon 28: Poll: Thoughts on On-Street Parking Downtown

Wed 23: Road Safety in the U.S.

Tue 22: Portland's 'Trees By Bike' launches third year of holiday deliveries

Mon 21: True Life Stories of the Carfree– Melanie, Michael, Ryan (4) and Sarah (2). Winnipeg, Manitoba

Thu 17: Berlin Forming Grand Coalition To Build Misguided Urban Freeway

Wed 16: Environmental Sustainability and Bicycles: Three Reasons Two Wheels are Great for Cities

Tue 15: A real "no build" option for the Tappan Zee Bridge

Mon 14: New York City Planners: Pack ‘Em In!

Fri 11: Sign the Right to the Road petition

Thu 10: Transportation for America Response to Senate EPW Reauthorization Bill

Wed 9: MAP-21 and Complete Streets

Tue 8: Taxing Parking for Transit in Chicago

Mon 7: Forget New York City’s High Line. Introducing: The Low Line

Fri 4: Mobility education is one way the Netherlands is the safest country in which to travel and commute

Thu 3: Bicycle ban in De Soto, KS, "re-discussed"

Wed 2: Bike and Pedestrian funding survives — again!

Tue 1: Toll roads coming on?

October 2011

Mon 31: Agreement on Downtown Tunneling for Seattle Region’s East Link Light Rail

Fri 28: What Gabe Klein is brewing up in Chicago: Pedestrian-safety mannequins

Thu 27: Defying Predictions from Ardent Highway Lobby, Rail Ridership Continues to Grow on New Systems

Wed 26: Transit and traffic congestion

Tue 25: Book Review: Waiting on a Train

Thu 20: Transit Commuting Saves Marin Millions

Wed 19: Tuesday Jolt: Seattle Gets $900K For Streetcar Study

Tue 18: Denver Hits 2.2% Bicycle Commuter Mode Share for 2010

Mon 17: Visions for an Urban National Park

Fri 14: Walking on Bike Lanes

Thu 13: Wisconsin town propose bike ban

Wed 12: Learning about San Diego’s love affair with the bicycle

Tue 11: Imagining the United States Without Shopping Malls

Mon 10: Review: The Gated City by Ryan Avent

Fri 7: Congestion and City Size

Thu 6: “This is not a cab town” – Cabs in Milwaukee

Wed 5: Responding to Cascade Policy Institute on the role of transit (and other issues)

Tue 4: A City for Cars or for People?

Mon 3: Pleasure and Pizzazz Come in Cities of All Sizes

September 2011

Fri 30: Charlottesville area Supervisors shoot down city effort to delay bypass

Thu 29: Ignoring Inaction in Congress, DOT Pushes Through Grants for Intercity Rail

Wed 28: High Rise Buildings Are Sooooo Expensive

Tue 27: Proposal to fix bridges by taking away safety money won’t solve the problem

Mon 26: The Correlation Between Housing Density and Cycling

Fri 23: Are We Part of Our Cars and Bikes?

Wed 21: Another biking benefit: Reduced smoking

Tue 20: Freeways to Real Estate, the Circle of Life

Mon 19: Finding Smart Growth along the Great Alleghany Passage Trail

Fri 16: Federal Bill is Still Transportation’s Moby Dick

Thu 15: We have reached a turning point in Seattle bicycle safety

Wed 14: Obama Proposes $4 Billion for HSR

Tue 13: Has it really come to this?

Mon 12: Review: Visualizing Density

Fri 9: Get Ready to Take Action — A Major Attack on Bicycle Funding

Thu 8: Rave Reviews for Bike-Shares in Boston, Washington

Wed 7: Demographics and Land Use

Tue 6: MARTA: It’s Not Just You, It’s Atlanta

August 2011

Tue 23: Atlanta: Subsidies, Traffic Congestion, and Giving Back

Mon 22: Retrofitting Gas Stations for Good

Fri 19: Mixed feelings about Chicago’s first Loop bike lane

Thu 18: Save the planet: ride a bus

Wed 17: A look back into Oregon bike history

Tue 16: NY Gov. Cuomo to Sign Life-Saving Complete Streets Bill

Mon 15: Are Our Driving Skills A Collective Effort?

Fri 12: Overpriced real estate and its underpriced access

Thu 11: Courteous or Critical? Will bicyclists in San Diego ever belong?

Wed 10: Blaming The Victim

Tue 9: Getting Midwesterners on board with high-speed rail

Mon 8: Does Car Sharing Really Reduce Vehicle Ownership?

Fri 5: The zombie outer beltway returns in DC

Thu 4: New Report: Transport Determines Housing Affordability

Wed 3: Missing the real point: city (re)development isn't about "gentrification" as much as it is about urbanism and urban design

Tue 2: Keeping top transit chiefs in tough times

Mon 1: Oroville driver “humorously” admits to assaulting cyclists with a deadly weapon.

July 2011

Fri 29: It's official - 3 foot passing law signed by Governor Markell

Thu 28: The Commuting Paradox

Wed 27: Car-sharing leads to more active transportation

Tue 26: Hoboken One Step Closer to Becoming Bike Friendly

Mon 25: On Embracing Change

Fri 22: Capital Bikeshare Expansion Stunted in the National Mall

Thu 21: Bikes on Amtrak — Why Such an Ordeal?

Wed 20: Free Parking and ‘Bad’ Transit

Tue 19: BIXI Toronto reached 100,000 trips and 250,000 km travelled in 2 months

Mon 18: With Few Funds Available, What are Transit Agencies to Do?

Fri 15: The Bicycle Dividend

Thu 14: Call to Action on Transportation Re-authorization

Wed 13: Breaking: New "Active Transportation" section to be created within ODOT

Tue 12: Let the Hissy Fits Begin

Mon 11: Traffic congestion is not increasing in central Toronto: it's a suburban problem

Fri 8: Quick Note: Road Boondoggles

Thu 7: New rumble strips rules put the squeeze on cyclists

Wed 6: What are rescissions (and why are they far worse than flat tires?)

Tue 5: Op-Ed: "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

Fri 1: A Good Year in Albany, IF Governor Cuomo Signs

June 2011

Thu 30: Major L.A. study shows importance of bike-transit connection

Wed 29: Pollution Benefits of Urban Rail

Tue 28: Are Speed Limit Signs a Cost-Effective Strategy to Manage Urban Speeds and Implement 20MPH "Living Streets"?

Mon 27: Car costs may hinder the ability of households to save

Fri 24: The Future of Bike Sharing Schemes in the United States

Thu 23: Road Respect

Wed 22: Transportation Equity Town Hall in Buffalo Tomorrow

Tue 21: Another GOP Attempt to Defund Northeast Corridor Rail

Mon 20: Chicago PD ticket Scrochers and Scofflaws

Fri 17: UPDATE: Video, Christine Dahab blew a .07, LAPD preliminarily blame cyclists

Thu 16: Nevada Legislature Passes Two Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Bills

Wed 15: One Year Car Free

Tue 14: Still waiting for action from the feds

Mon 13: That Influential Texas "Urban Mobility Report"

Fri 10: Streetcar Rails and Buy America Issues

Thu 9: The Death of a Cyclist

Wed 8: Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Spurs Development Interest in Newark

Tue 7: Tell your Representatives: Complete Streets will help curb pedestrian deaths

Mon 6: Could Focusing on Repairs Please Everyone?

Fri 3: Carnage culture needs to change

Thu 2: Portland Streetcar Inc. urges USDOT to fund bike-sharing system

Wed 1: Economist estimates CRC project would spend $60 million on parking garages

May 2011

Tue 31: Pedestrians of the Future

Fri 27: A Decline in Car Use in Britain: The Result of Policy and Practicality

Thu 26: Pedestrians and cyclists still at losing end of collisions with motor vehicles in 2010

Wed 25: Loop Roads or Bust

Tue 24: Can TOD Typologies Work in Places that Run Buses? Part 3 of 6

Mon 23: Urban Mobility Report Points to Overbuilt Roads in St. Louis

Tue 17: The Trestle Isn't The High Line But It Could Be A Great Addition to St. Louis

Fri 13: New Orleanians, rebuilding with sustainability (NOLA resilience Part 3)

Thu 12: Washington, California, and the Curious Case of the Railway to Somewhere

Tue 10: South Philly gets a street that will drink up water

Tue 10: Biking and the school bond measure

Sun 8: Transit is 5 for 5 in West Michigan, but Will Senators Defy Agema, Get On the Bus?

Fri 6: Will this historic downtown recover? (photoessay)

Thu 5: Urban Design that Fights Obesity and Promotes Physical Activity

Wed 4: US Mayors Want More Bicycle and Pedestrian Investments

Tue 3: League of American Bicyclists’ 2011 Annual Appeal Campaign: Toward Zero Deaths

Mon 2: It’s Bike Month: Get Out There and Proselytize!

April 2011

Fri 29: Best comment ever from someone who probably drives a car

Thu 28: Shifting Our Taxpayer $$$ from Oil to Efficient Transportation and Technology

Wed 27: Here To Help: How Metro Helps St. Louis Region Respond to Crises

Tue 26: The Politics of Gas Prices

Mon 25: Bill Seeking New Ridership Study is Latest NIMBY Attempt to Derail HSR

Thu 21: Did you hear about the Capital Bikeshare expansion. What now for SmartBike?

Wed 20: To Improve Living Standards, Improve Housing And Transportation Policy

Tue 19: Vulnerable roadway user laws gain momentum nationwide as more people bike and walk

Mon 18: EPA Region 7: "We were just kidding about that sustainability stuff"

Fri 15: No Gas Tax Increase, Less Infrastructure

Thu 14: The Difference Between ‘Tactical’ and ‘DIY’ Urbanism

Wed 13: Of Parks, Podiums and Penumbras: How Density Changes Development

Tue 12: Laying the groundwork for a Sustainable Communities Strategy

Mon 11: Encino cyclist killed in Leucadia; local TV speculates an attempted vehicular serial killer could be at work

Fri 8: In a Split Second

Thu 7: New Google Maps Feature Nudges Drivers to Consider Alternatives

Wed 6: Atlanta Transit Expansion Comes Closer as Region Prepares for Tax Referendum

Tue 5: 3 Feet *and* 15 MPH?

Mon 4: P.J. O'Rourke hates on bike lanes: What next? 'Pogo-stick lanes'?

Fri 1: NY State Budget Holds the Line on Transportation

March 2011

Thu 31: Cut foreign oil: Ride a bike

Wed 30: Citywide Safe Routes to School Plan Needs Your Support

Tue 29: Misdemeanor manslaughter bill moves to MD Senate this week

Mon 28: The Zoo Interchange — basic questions about a bad project in the making

Fri 25: The law of unintended biking consequences — cities ignore bike safety at your peril

Thu 24: Defining "Urban"

Wed 23: Delmar Blvd and the Purpose of Arterial Roads

Tue 22: Illinois Bicycling Advocates Consider Proposing Legislation To Keep Track of Dooring Incidents

Mon 21: Another Pedestrian Killed on South Florida Streets

Fri 18: A short guide to 'transportation health equity'

Thu 17: How we got to BIXI Toronto: an almost exhaustive background on bikesharing in Toronto

Wed 16: Seoul Boosts Transit Ridership with Color-Coded Buses and Other Reforms

Tue 15: BikePGH receives “Advocacy Organization of the Year” from the Alliance for Biking & Walking

Mon 14: Op-Ed: Shouldn’t bicycle planning and facility design experts at least ride bikes?

Thu 10: On casual carpools, or "slugging"

Wed 9: Do we need TOD Certification that goes beyond LEED Certification?

Tue 8: Technology + Transportation; Making Efficient use of Transit Resources

Mon 7: Financing the Nation’s Infrastructure in Our Age of Cutbacks

Fri 4: If we’re in an urban renaissance, why are cities still losing population?

Thu 3: Exactly the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Transit, Smart Growth, and High-Speed Rail

Wed 2: Walker Budget Eliminates Transit As Transportation, So No Dedicated Money From Gas Taxes

Tue 1: Simple ideas for healthy, livable cities

February 2011

Mon 28: Down to the Line in Florida

Fri 25: Why the Washington Post is wrong about high speed rail

Thu 24: NRDC Recognizes the Philadelphia Region for Transportation Innovation

Wed 23: MPC submits testimony to shape new federal transportation bill

Tue 22: Orange County claims yet another biking victim

Mon 21: Summary of surface transport bill listening session from Indy

Fri 18: AASHTO, Facebook and Federal funding

Thu 17: Sensible solution to major Illinois budget cut

Wed 16: New Carsharing Association Aims to Reduce Car Ownership

Tue 15: BikingBis: Biking Fatalities, State By State

Mon 14: Is There Hope for an Infrastructure Bank?

Mon 14: How Did Boulder Do It?

Fri 11: The power of skyscrapers

Thu 10: Not Your Typical Greenwashing: Wash Cycle Laundry’s Bike-Centric Business Model

Wed 9: Smart Growth America: Invest in Maintenance and Transit, Not New Roads

Tue 8: ARC Revived as the Amtrak Gateway Project

Mon 7: Bicyclists ask for better enforcement of traffic laws

Fri 4: A Good Argument for Lowering Property Taxes

Thu 3: Engineering for Speed and Road Safety in D.C.

Wed 2: Lets Make One Thing Clear, I Am Not Slowing You Down

Tue 1: Suburbs Pollute More than Cities

January 2011

Mon 31: San Francisco: transit and endangered species

Fri 28: The Explosive Growth of Bus Rapid Transit

Thu 27: Alexandria cyclist ticketed for speeding

Wed 26: Complete Streets Success Stories: Boulder, Seattle, Reston, Park Slope

Tue 25: Virginia Republican pursuing vendetta against Arlington for not wanting to be a "giant interchange"

Mon 24: Taking Aim at Rail

Fri 21: Blame Michelle Obama

Thu 20: 'Cross-bikes': Crosswalks for bikes coming soon to Portland?

Wed 19: Boulder Preparing to Rock Bike-sharing

Tue 18: A Big Urban Victory – Mixed-Use and Fannie, Freddie and the FHA

Fri 14: Secretary LaHood meets with bicycling advocates; blogs about it

Thu 13: CDC: 2/3 of US Adults back street improvements to make physical activity an easier choice

Wed 12: CTA Contemplates Dramatic Changes for North Side Train Lines

Tue 11: What would get San Diegans to Bike More?

Mon 10: Hearts go out to Rep. Giffords and Tucson community

Fri 7: Not all infrastructure is worth replacing

Thu 6: High growth city = poorer city?

Wed 5: Make Driving More Dangerous?

Tue 4: You’re Welcome Mr. Motorist

Mon 3: Quantifying the Value of Biking

December 2010

Tue 21: In the Transportation Funding Heirarchy, Bikes Finish Last

Mon 20: DART exec explains Red Line/Green Line service levels

Fri 17: DelDOT: 2010 Transit Riders Have Monthly Savings of $938

Thu 16: MapQuest Bike Directions: Answers from the Inside

Wed 15: Plenty of Room for Growth in ‘Built-Out’ Communities

Tue 14: Citizen activists request fixes to make streetcar tracks safer for cycling

Mon 13: Why Doesn't Someone Tell You to Drive Less?

Fri 10: Bye Bye Bikeshare, See You Next Spring

Thu 9: Temporary extension of surface transportation law will enable next Congress to pursue transformational reauthorization in 2011

Wed 8: Getting bikes into the "Wheels" sections of newspapers

Tue 7: Bicycle Safety May Be Added to New York Driver Education Classes

Mon 6: Study: Rush-Hour Bike Speeds Compare Favorably to Cars

Fri 3: With Common-Sense Reforms, Hoboken Becoming an NJ Model

Thu 2: Aussie study finds drivers at fault 87% of conflicts with bicyclists

Wed 1: Ten affordable neighborhoods-in-progress will design to LEED-ND standards under grant program

November 2010

Tue 30: Feds to NJ: Give us back our $271 million

Mon 29: Designing communities for health: tools and resources

Wed 24: A Quick Lesson In The Art Of The Two-Wheeled Winter Commute

Tue 23: A Better Block on Broad

Mon 22: Will Wal-Mart be urban, part 1: Brightwood

Fri 19: The Revolution Will Be…Built

Thu 18: “We see the bike as a solution”

Wed 17: DC’s Bike Share Proliferation

Tue 16: Why the federal gas tax isn’t covering our needs

Mon 15: WTF? What’s up with gender and bikes?

Fri 12: As a New Congress Sets Up Shop, Questions About the Future of Transportation Funding

Thu 11: Is Georgia Spawning Rail Republicans?

Wed 10: Would 'strict liability' help curb America's distracted driving habit?

Tue 9: Seeking traffic justice across the country

Mon 8: Seniors and Road Safety in Car Dependant Places

Fri 5: Apple Gets into Mass Transit

Thu 4: Transportation bill a prime chance for bipartisan achievement in a divided government

Wed 3: What a Republican-controlled House would mean for bicycling

Tue 2: Progressive Parking Pricing

Mon 1: Transportation and Equality

October 2010

Fri 29: Seattle Children’s Hospital to Invest $2M to Improve Bike and Ped Infrastructure

Thu 28: Breakin' the law and proud of it!

Wed 27: Would you rather have free parking and dirty sidewalks or paid parking and clean sidewalks?

Tue 26: The Senate livability bill has no teeth. That’s okay

Mon 25: Goldhagen: “Democracies Need Physical Spaces”

Fri 22: Dramatic Study on Health, Air Quality and Congestion finds EZ-Pass Saves Lives

Thu 21: TIGER II grants to 75 innovative projects will change the transportation landscape, create jobs in 40 states

Wed 20: Drivers should love Toronto’s bike box, too

Tue 19: Want to walk to school? Laguna Beach says nope, not here

Mon 18: TIGER II Grants Given to Highway Removal Projects

Fri 15: Transportation Alternatives Takes On Queens Boulevard

Thu 14: Managed lanes with peak-period transit discounts in Minneapolis

Wed 13: Still more evidence of the network effect in bicycle safety

Tue 12: ARC Tunnel on Life-Support after Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood Intervened

Fri 8: In Delaware, Complete Streets Mandate comes to mean "Routine Accommodation"

Thu 7: Nashville Mayor Signs Executive Order for Complete Streets

Wed 6: Nation’s Transit Systems 1% Closer to Being Fixed

Tue 5: Jane Jacobs: Going beyond the simple needs

Mon 4: Hey Tea Party, Let's Get Cars Off Welfare

Fri 1: The Style, The Substance. It’s all important.

September 2010

Thu 30: Avoiding car-centered language: a directive

Wed 29: Seattle Mayor Proposes $13 Million for Alt-Transportation In His Slash and Burn Budget

Tue 28: MDX Should Not Build More Unnecessary Highways to Justify Its Existence

Mon 27: Active transport advocates, tranportation officials live in "separate bubbles"

Fri 24: Getting the Youth of Today Involved in Public Transportation for Tomorrow

Thu 23: Long Island’s Killer Road Claims Another Life

Wed 22: New Ozone Standards Could Mean Change for Upstate New York

Tue 21: PARK(ing) Day Post Mortem

Mon 20: Breathe a little easier: American Lung Association study backs smart growth

Fri 17: Illinois Introduces $5M Green Infrastructure Grant Program

Thu 16: USC Enacts Partial Bike Ban

Wed 15: Promoting Bicycling in Local Climate Action Plans

Tue 14: Why the SR 167 Extension is a Bad Idea

Mon 13: Connecting Low-Wage Workers With Job Opportunities

Thu 9: Don’t block the box… or else?

Wed 8: Speak Up, Florida: Don't Unfairly Cut Funding for Trails, Walking and Bicycling!

Tue 7: Long Beach CA's Innovative Bicycle Priority Lanes

Fri 3: WisDOT Delivers The Marquette Interchange On Time, Under Budget, And Below Par

Thu 2: Fixing the World's Deadliest Streets

Wed 1: 'Might makes right' versus 'duty of care' on the roads

August 2010

Tue 31: FedEx Makes More Efficient Deliveries with Zero Emissions Electric Bikes

Mon 30: It’s the Driving (Not the Texting), Stupid

Fri 27: Has Critical Mass Outgrown its Purpose in San Diego?

Thu 26: Running bike-sharing networks through smartphones

Wed 25: Study: Road Diets Reduce Collisions

Tue 24: SLUGGING & BEYOND: First Regional Slugging & Dynamic Ridesharing Meeting (Ever)

Mon 23: Mayor Bloomburg Pushes for Bike Sharing in NYC

Fri 20: There's money to be made by living near transit

Thu 19: Living Near Public Transportation May Lengthen Your Life

Wed 18: Bike/Ped Improvements Proposed for St. Louis' Gateway Arch

Tue 17: New Complete Streets Policies in Two States

Wed 11: Breaking Down Cincinnati’s Eastern Corridor Passenger Rail Plan

Thu 5: 98.4% of Metro LA Employees REFUSE to Go Metro

Mon 2: Senate Banking Committee to Mark-Up Livable Communities Act

July 2010

Fri 30: Bikestation: Growing US Cycling One Bike Spa at a Time

Thu 29: Berkeley Rejects BRT, and What It Means for ‘Complete Streets’

Tue 27: Santa Monica Bike Committee Getting The Ball Rolling

Sun 25: Germany's Ruhr Valley rolling with Metroradruhr

Thu 22: L.A.’s Newly Biking Mayor Still Doesn’t Get It

Mon 19: Why won't Mike Castle ACT?

Mon 12: Rumble Strips: Problems and Policies

Wed 7: Philly-Area Transit Projects Move Forward Despite Funding Crisis

Thu 1: Singapore: A Walk with Paul Barter

June 2010

Wed 30: To Save a 7 Station, an Obvious Redesign at 41st and 10th

Tue 29: Public Space Meets Work Space in Bramhall Square

Mon 28: What the Next U-MD President Can Do

Sun 27: Ideas For Toronto: Blue Bike Lanes

Fri 25: Making Little Plans: City Hall Coasts on Bike Issues

Thu 24: A Few Hours on UTA

Wed 23: Bike Gear: Visibility

Tue 22: The Columbia River Crossing, and the Role of State DOTs

Mon 21: When a Name is More Powerful Than a Fence

Fri 18: What Is Austin Thinking?

Thu 17: "Peak of the Peak" Makes Flexible Passes More Crucial

Wed 16: Six Ways to Boost Your City's Bike Mojo

Tue 15: Something About a Separated Bike Path

Mon 14: Long Beach Township Petition Reflects Lack of Respect for Pedestrians

Fri 11: An Engineer's Aesthetic

Thu 10: Urban Tour Guide: Indianapolis

Wed 9: The North Side: Let's Plug the Loss of Place

Tue 8: Boat Public Transit Scheme for Chicago?

Mon 7: Removing Street Signs For Safety's Sake

Fri 4: The Cul-de-Sac's One Redeeming Quality: Spaces for Children

Thu 3: The Last Thing Toronto Needs is More Cyclists

Wed 2: More Stuff That Matters: The Population Forecast

Tue 1: Getting Creative With Bus Lines

May 2010

Fri 28: Social Media Enabled Instant Organizing for Streetcars

Thu 27: It Takes a (Small) City: Tackling Childhood Obesity With Complete Streets

Tue 25: Principles of Sidewalkery: Public v. Private

Mon 24: Complete Streets: What They Are and Why We Need Them

Fri 21: Is NYSDOT Doing Enough to Protect Pedestrians on Long Island?

Thu 20: Extending Sidewalks in St. Paul's Downtown

Wed 19: Cincinnati Transit Agency Votes to Operate Modern Streetcar System

Tue 18: Land Use AND Transportation: The Importance of Understanding the Connection

Mon 17: Bike Parking BCBS Richardson

Fri 14: 'Metrospeak' Camouflages Bus Cuts

Thu 13: Today’s Ride, on Which I Find Genuine Humanity in an Unexpected Source. And Not So Much.

Wed 12: Unelected Bureaucrats Tell City Council: "Screw You, Augusta Knows Best"

Tue 11: Car-Sharing on Steroids?

Mon 10: Diverse Cycling Fashion

Fri 7: Bike (to School) Across America

Thu 6: What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Wed 5: Cincinnati Aims to Double Number of Cyclists by 2015

Tue 4: E. State St. Narrowed… World Doesn’t End

Mon 3: Failure to Communicate: Beyond Starbucks Urbanism

April 2010

Fri 30: It's No Joke: Portland Business Alliance Honors Bike Advocates

Thu 29: Norwalk's Missing Crosswalks

Wed 28: Mall Rot: How They Do It in Dixie

Tue 27: Complete Streets in Delaware, One Year Later

Mon 26: New Bike Facilities Catching On

Fri 23: Density and Successful Provision of Public Transit

Thu 22: Is Speed Obsolete?

Wed 21: The Problem with Parking Ratios

Tue 20: Riverfront: The Wrong Way to Build a Complete Street

Mon 19: Bike/Walk Improvements as a "Context Sensitive Solution"

Fri 16: Collingswood Streets Hold Vigil For 90-Year-Old Man Killed In Haddon Township

Thu 15: LaHood Gets Heat for Bike Stance (But Truckers Still Like Him)

Wed 14: Journey from Suburbia to Central City: One Blogger's Story

Tue 13: Just Another Sunday on the Rickenbacker Causeway

Mon 12: Freeze Your Keys?

Fri 9: What Can We Learn from Davis’ Bicycling Advocates?

Thu 8: Treating the Trains as We Would Our Kitchen

Wed 7: Jhong: Bicycle Culture Revolution

Tue 6: Analysis of Google’s Bike-There Feature: Part I

Mon 5: A Year Well Spent: One Year Spent Car-Free

Fri 2: The Problem of Commuting -- or, Getting Your Life Back

Thu 1: Electric Cars and the Future of Transit

March 2010

Wed 31: Housing and Transportation Squeeze Hitting Rural America

Tue 30: Walkshed Technologies and the Smart City

Mon 29: Bikes = Economic Catastrophe

Fri 26: Debunking the Supposed Convenience of Cars

Thu 25: Most Important Analysis of Land Use You'll See All Year

Wed 24: Council Votes to Investigate Bike Licensing

Tue 23: Do Walkable, High-Density Suburbs Exist?

Mon 22: Down with “Avid Cyclists”

Fri 19: Is Google Taking Us for a Ride?

Thu 18: Who Wants to Live by Free-Standing Fast Food Restaurants?

Wed 17: Death Wish to Bike in Miami?

Tue 16: The Usual Blaming of the Victim Follows Latest Pedestrian Death

Mon 15: The City as Platform

Fri 12: Ray LaHood Rouses Summit Crowd with Tabletop Speech

Thu 11: Are Google Map’s Bicycling Directions a Game Changer?

Wed 10: A Morning Walk

Tue 9: The Will to Resist

Mon 8: By the Numbers: My Financial and Environmental Impact of Commuting by Bicycle

Fri 5: Safety for All Road Users

Thu 4: More Green Building Honors for Sprawl

Wed 3: Guest Post: Families and Children on Transit

Tue 2: Boston’s Future Lies In Moving Away From The Car

Mon 1: Vancouver: Olympic Transit Payoffs

February 2010

Fri 26: Mayor Moncrief’s State of the City Address: Car-Centric Planning a Blunder

Thu 25: Congressman Kucinich Takes Multipurpose Path on Innerbelt to Washington

Wed 24: Think Metro Is in a Death Spiral? Wait Till You See County Bike Programs

Tue 23: I Was Almost Killed Last Night by a Bunch of Drunks

Mon 22: "A Bicycle Is Not a Transportation Device"

Fri 19: Parking Bombs

Thu 18: Rail and Transit Benefit, Highways Lose Out in TIGER Grant Distribution

Wed 17: Stuck With Cars (cont.)

Mon 15: The Monetary Benefits of Bicycle Infrastructure

Fri 12: Secretary LaHood Issues Recall of the American Motorist

Thu 11: For Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” Campaign, Don’t Forget Planning and Design

Wed 10: Setting the Record Straight on Parking

Tue 9: Think Globally, Act Individually

Mon 8: The End of the Cul-de-Sac?

Fri 5: Reforming Anti-Urban Bias in Transportation Spending

Thu 4: What the Passage of Proposition "A" Can Mean for the St. Louis Region

Wed 3: Transit Riders Shouldn't Have to Sacrifice

Tue 2: Federal Transit Administration Unveils Capital Projects Recommended for Major Financing

Mon 1: Some of These Bike-Haters Have a Point

January 2010

Fri 29: Who’s Biking? Choice or Necessity

Thu 28: Pedestrian Deaths, Shell Shock and Paralysis

Wed 27: How the LA Metro Is Part of the “Green” Mass Transportation Movement

Tue 26: Road Rage on the Planet of the Apes

Mon 25: The Core Vitality Imperative

Fri 22: Responding to the Transport Needs of the Impoverished Suburbs

Thu 21: ‘Parking Availability Bias’

Wed 20: Three Kinds of Low-Car City

Tue 19: Accommodating Pedestrians At Construction Sites

Fri 15: Transit Is About Independence

Thu 14: You Cannot Have Your Car and Your Planet Too

Wed 13: Transportation Alternatives: Walkability and Skiing to Work

Tue 12: Coeur d'Alene: No Safety in Numbers for Bike/Peds

Mon 11: Kunstler’s Wrong, St. Louis’ New Train/Bus Depot Is Not an Eyesore

Fri 8: What’s in a Name?

Thu 7: Enough With the Fetishization, It’s Just a Car

Wed 6: The Conservative Case for Walking and Biking

Tue 5: Columnist Warns of Forced Porch-Sitting, Possible Mandatory Neighbor Interaction

Mon 4: Stadiums Draining Cities

December 2009

Wed 30: A Simple Plan to Make Bikes More Visible and Increase Awareness

Tue 29: You Can’t Go Home Again

Mon 28: Growth of Auto-Related Structures

Thu 24: Are the Burbs Better for Bikes?

Wed 23: Car Free Days Family Bike Vs. Bus Challenge

Tue 22: In Copenhagen They Plow the Bike Lanes First -- In Philly It's Where We Put The Snow

Mon 21: The Safety Bogeyman

Fri 18: Parking Wars in Downtown Missoula

Thu 17: Trash Talk: NJ Editor Blames Peds and State for Increase in Deaths

Wed 16: When Is It Socially Acceptable to Threaten People's Lives? When They Are Bicyclists.

Tue 15: Far North Dallas Suppressing People-First Developments in Oak Cliff

Mon 14: Assessing the Spruce and Pine Bike Victory

Fri 11: First Bike Boulevard Open House Highlights Tensions Between Cyclists and Nueces Street Property Owners

Thu 10: Doggie-Bags from Overtaxed Restaurant Analogy

Wed 9: Implementing Streetcars Demands Consideration of the Way Traffic Works

Tue 8: As The Crow Rides: Cleveland’s Cyclists Rally for I-90 Bridge Path

Tue 8: Transit Agencies Need to Invest in Marketing: A Lesson from Los Angeles

Mon 7: Florida Convenes Special Legislative Session for Sunrail, Tri-Rail, High-Speed Rail

Fri 4: Constant Surprises on the Bus

Thu 3: Letter to Speaker Pelosi with Principles for Transportation Spending

Wed 2: What to Do in a Cycling Collision

Tue 1: Ants Go Marching 1X1; We Sit in Traffic

November 2009

Mon 30: Bus Rapid Transit: Notes from a Pro

Wed 25: "Cities for Cycling" Could Have Huge Impact on Bikeway Innovation

Tue 24: CarLess Week!

Mon 23: The Walking Paths of Brasilia

Fri 20: Company Releases Analysis of ‘Should Cyclists Pay Road Tax?’ Ad Campaign

Thu 19: Acceptance of Distracted Driving Revealed in Warning to Pedestrians?

Wed 18: Secretary LaHood Gets Your Message Loud and Clear

Tue 17: Designing the Way to a Pedestrian Success Story

Tue 17: New Fed Policy Would Fund More Bike Projects Around Transit Stops

Mon 16: A Madison Strain of Crazy

Fri 13: New Report: Firms Give Big in Texas to Influence Transpo Policy

Thu 12: Health Is a Rhythm

Wed 11: Considering Pedestrian Safety And Walkability In Louisville

Tue 10: Musings on the Role of Buses in Cities

Mon 9: Downtown's Case Against City Hall For Abandonment

Fri 6: CityWatchLA -- Kids Challenge LA Leadership

Thu 5: Cul-de-Sacs Kill!

Wed 4: The Research Is In: You’re Safer in the Bike Lane (or Bike Boulevard, or cycle track)

Tue 3: In Defense of a Good Walk

Mon 2: Open Space, Biking and Walking -- They're Connected

October 2009

Fri 30: Agriburbia: An Awkward Name for an Interesting Idea

Thu 29: You Can’t Trust Anyone These Days

Wed 28: Reaching Gen Y and Younger

Tue 27: Why Do We "Have to Do Something" About Traffic but Not Transit?

Mon 26: Adventures of a Pedestrian on Brickell

Fri 23: CityWatchLA -- Without a Car in the World

Thu 22: Should St. Louis Consider Limiting Chain Stores? Is There a Better Way to Support Local Businesses?

Wed 21: The White City

Tue 20: Preparing Our Transportation Systems for Climate Change

Mon 19: Freedom of Movement

Fri 16: Fuzzy Dice 1, Cyclists 0

Thu 15: How to Keep Smart Growth Affordable: Build More of It

Wed 14: And Now, a Not-So-Simple Adjustment in Biking Infrastructure

Tue 13: Inspirational John Pucher

Fri 9: LA Relegates Cyclists to Second-Class Status

Thu 8: New Competitor for WalkScore Enters the Ring

Wed 7: How Does Child Care Access Affect Active Living in the Twin Cities?

Tue 6: Detroit’s Decline as an Opportunity

Mon 5: Advice for Taking the Car Free Plunge -- Part II: Back-up Plans

Fri 2: Employers Should Be Liable When Employees Cause Serious Injury While Driving, Texting, Talking

September 2009

Wed 30: Lessons from North Texas

Tue 29: The Middle of the Road

Fri 25: The Changing Face of Transportation in America

Thu 24: Investing in Girls and Women…for Safer Public Transportation?

Wed 23: Downtown Denver BID Honored as September’s Bicycle Friendly Business of the Month

Tue 22: First "Vote No On Issue #9" Ad Up in Cincinnati's Fight for Future Passenger Rail

Mon 21: Lowballing Light Rail

Fri 18: Development Bans Do More "Forcing" Than Smart Growth

Thu 17: Fear of Cycling 02 - Constructing Fear of Cycling

Wed 16: The Usual Suspects

Tue 15: Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Opportunity for Growth

Mon 14: Can Rapid Transit Work Along Freeways?

Fri 11: "Summer Streets" May Give Major St. Louis Streets to Walkers, Cyclists But Fix Nothing for Daily Use

Thu 10: City Weapon Against Big Box Blight Advances

Wed 9: The Great Georgetown Bugaboo: Cars and Parking

Tue 8: Stage Is Set for a Livable Streets Renaissance in Savannah

Fri 4: Concerns About End-Point Connectivity Are Overreaching

Thu 3: New Study Affirms Links Between Development Patterns, Transportation, Emissions and Energy

Wed 2: City Reacts to the New Cycle Track

Tue 1: The Trick with Carrots and Sticks

August 2009

Mon 31: Drinking Problem? or Driving Culture?

Fri 28: Vienna: Weaving a Total Network

Thu 27: Fighting Ourselves Over Funding for Intracity Versus Intercity Transportation

Wed 26: Winner of Reburbia Competition Would Turn McMansions into Water-Filtering Wetlands

Tue 25: Denver's Urban Design Masterpiece

Mon 24: The Downside of Living Carless in a Small City

Mon 24: Bueno Mr. Mayor, Se jodió la bicicleta!

Fri 21: Is Rt. 35 South of Pt. Pleasant "Shore" to Kill?

Thu 20: National Organization Finds That Bike-to-School Bans Are on the Rise

Wed 19: The Transport Index 2009

Tue 18: LAB Report: Bicycles Contribute $133 Billion to the Economy

Mon 17: Pedestrians Clearly Out of Control

Fri 14: Woodward: The First Mile of Concrete Highway

Thu 13: No Phones In School Zones

Wed 12: "No More Cars" vs. "Not More Cars"

Tue 11: The Captain Ahab of Neighborhood Design

Mon 10: Changing Federal Policy on Housing, Transportation and Environment: One Step Forward, One Step Back

Fri 7: No Overnight Parking

Thu 6: Bus Driver Experiences "Windshield Perspective"

Wed 5: Trust Me

Tue 4: Higher Densities Not Necessarily the Answer to Our Sustainability Questions

Mon 3: Interview with Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Oregon 3rd District, a Leading Advocate for Sustainable Transportation

July 2009

Fri 31: Hanging Up

Thu 30: CDC.gov: Halt Obesity Epidemic by Building Complete Streets Now

Wed 29: The Lost Wilderness of Childhood

Tue 28: Resolving the "Pedestrian Death Problem" in New Jersey

Mon 27: Public Bikes -- How Big a System? And Why?

Fri 24: The Games Traffic Engineers Play

Thu 23: Transportation Can Be Counterintuitive

Wed 22: Vancouver's Insane Experiment

Tue 21: Will Americans Care That Air Pollution is Killing Us Now That Babies Are Involved?

Mon 20: Impeding Traffic: Looking at the Bigger Picture

Fri 17: Smarter Cities and Flawed Rankings

Thu 16: Car Free Fridays Goes on a Low-Car Diet

Wed 15: Shrinking Cities Look to Innovative Solutions for a Difficult Transition

Tue 14: How to Design Resilient Cities

Mon 13: Jaywalking Saga Continues; Public Safety and Public Health Questions Remain Unanswered

Fri 10: Mistake Alert: Loop Trolley Proposal Looking Backward Rather Than Forward

Thu 9: Victory for Climate-Friendly Transportation

Wed 8: Telecommuting and the Broadband Superhighway

Tue 7: SeeClickFix Tackles Tomlinson Bridge "Disaster"; ConnDOT Vetoes Safety Improvements

Mon 6: Many Segments of the Population Are Too Old for This

Thu 2: Help Us Help Everyone!

Wed 1: Mind the Gender Gap

June 2009

Tue 30: Michael Jackson Trumps End of Our World

Mon 29: Highway Expansion Will Not Save Us From Idiots Behind the Wheel

Fri 26: Who Pays Attention to the Needs of NYC Subways?

Thu 25: Walk Your Bike Signs Cropping Up All Over DC

Wed 24: GAO Questions DOTs HSR Strategy

Tue 23: Hartford Courant: Highway Removal Could Heal the City

Mon 22: "One of the Major Hazards on Our Roadways in Montgomery County"

Mon 22: Is Detroit a Lost Cause Environmentally?

Fri 19: Reduce Car Culture to Increase Access to Healthier Food

Thu 18: Where Does Federal Funding for Bicycle Projects Come From, Anyway?

Wed 17: Shaw's Plaza Downtown: Street Design Worse than No-Man's Land Target

Tue 16: The Portland Effect

Mon 15: The Future of Fort Worth -- an Interview with Planner Don Koski

Fri 12: Creative Destruction Is Real

Thu 11: Memphis' Opportunity For First-Class Public Transit, Finally

Wed 10: Parking Policies Can Reduce Car Use

Tue 9: LAPD -- "Who Teaches the Teachers?"

Mon 8: Sprawl Dead in Jersey?

Fri 5: Pedestrian Safety Bill Moves Forward -- Meanwhile Pedestrian Deaths Go Through The Roof

Thu 4: Slow Ride

Wed 3: Nancy Kete on the Future of the American Transportation System

Tue 2: Gladly Paying for Parking

Mon 1: Cars and Parenting

May 2009

Fri 29: Automobile Attrition in Brickell

Thu 28: Not About Just Buildings, Cars

Wed 27: 'Street Temporary Transformation Programs' Are Big News Around the World

Tue 26: This Intersection Sucks

Fri 22: Jaywalking Crackdown: What’s the Goal?

Fri 22: In Praise of Redundancy

Thu 21: Breaking Down the Blueprint: T4’s Objective for Improved Public Health and Safety

Wed 20: 15 Cents a Mile for No Traffic?

Tue 19: Using Positive Messages to Encourage More Bicycling

Mon 18: A New Urban Environmentalism?

Fri 15: The Rise of the New Grass Roots -- Part 1: The Phenomenon

Thu 14: MoDOT Lobbies Against Complete Streets; Lobbying Efforts Under Fire

Wed 13: How to Keep Cyclists Happy at the Office

Tue 12: Promoting Social Equity Through Transit Fares

Mon 11: A Modest Proposal

Fri 8: Aloha Complete Streets!

Thu 7: Saving Money by Not Driving

Wed 6: E is for Educating Enforcement

Tue 5: For the Love of Lights, Bus Driver Wants to Throw Us a Party

Mon 4: Bad News for Traffic Signal Manufacturers

Fri 1: Complete Street Makeover for S. 2nd Street?

April 2009

Thu 30: Illinois Shuts Down Transit Project Funding

Wed 29: Franklin EDC Not Ready or Willing to Leverage Smart Growth and Impending Transit Options

Tue 28: Rep. McCarthy: Check Your Facts Before Bloviating About "Bike Racks"

Mon 27: Why Conservatives Should Care About Transit (and Trains)

Fri 24: Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome Surges at WTOP

Thu 23: Bridges Tame the Valley's Freeway-Laden Landscape

Wed 22: Social Class in Transportation

Tue 21: New Jersey's Use of Stimulus Funds Breaks the Law

Mon 20: Is Un-development the Latest Trend?

Fri 17: Congestion Pricing: Practical Problems

Thu 16: Photo and Video Update on a Revitalized Old North St. Louis

Wed 15: "Portion Distortion" and the American Road

Tue 14: Is the Problem Auto-Dependency or Suburbia?

Mon 13: Mikulski Fiddles with Car Tax Credits While Transit Burns

Fri 10: CityWatchLA -- Inside the Crosswalk Sting at Deadly Intersection

Thu 9: Day One and the Missoula Master Plan

Wed 8: Missing Sidewalks Stir Debate

Tue 7: My Dirty Transit Secret

Tue 7: Law Enforcement Bias and the Three-Foot Law

Mon 6: Free Metro: Make Mass Transit Free For Everyone

Fri 3: No, DON'T Make 485 a Top Priority

Thu 2: Oregon’s Successful Mileage Tax Experiment

Wed 1: Calling Crashes “Accidents,” Even When they aren’t

March 2009

Tue 31: Strong Central Cities May Help in Weathering the Recession

Mon 30: Tell Governor Rendell to Release Safe Routes to School Funds

Fri 27: Call for Better Passenger Rail Advocacy

Thu 26: Bus Cuts and Layoffs: 25% of Service to Be Cut in Orange County

Wed 25: World's Cheapest Car: Progress or Eco-Nightmare for India?

Tue 24: Excessive Passive Voice, Linguistic Detachment Observed in Culpeper Road Fatality

Mon 23: Transit-Oriented Development: Beyond the Big City

Fri 20: Fear, Intimidation and Decision-Making

Thu 19: HUD and DOT Announce Joint Sustainable Communities Initiative

Wed 18: Ray LaHood: Cities Have Good Reason for Optimism

Tue 17: Highways to Nowhere: The 7 Most Ridiculous New Roads Being Built With Stimulus Money

Mon 16: Traffic Triples Risk of Heart Attack, Study Says

Fri 13: Bikes and Pedestrians Be Damned -- Go Big, Go Wide, Go Fast

Thu 12: Seeking a National Legal Standard to Ensure Traffic Justice

Wed 11: Smarter Stimulus Spending

Tue 10: “Beltway Burden”: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation

Mon 9: Rebuild Roads, but (Re)build a Better Transportation System, Too

Fri 6: Stimulus Idea: Passenger Rail Equipment Made in the USA

Thu 5: How to Fix Transit Financing

Wed 4: Memo to the States (and President Obama): It Ain’t Just Highway Money

Tue 3: Public Places Are More Important than Ever

Mon 2: US Vehicle Miles Driven Continues to Plummet; Trends Predict More Bicycling, Walking and Transit

February 2009

Fri 27: Transportation For America Officially Launches Campaign Platform

Thu 26: Competitors for High-Speed Rail Grants

Wed 25: Encourage Renting and Mobility to Reduce Sprawl

Tue 24: In Sustainable Communities, Architecture, and Preservation, Does Beauty Matter? Should It?

Mon 23: A Mileage Tax in Question

Fri 20: Let's Be Honest About Speeding

Thu 19: Connecting the Dots: President Obama Begins Laying Out a Vision for Transportation

Wed 18: Full Summary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Tue 17: Get the Message: Driving and Cell Phones Don't Mix

Fri 13: Federal Stimulus: KTVU "Report" on CityBus

Thu 12: Why Transit Needs Bikes

Wed 11: I Respect Your Right to Drive Like a Maniac Down This Street, But…

Tue 10: Where Is the Old AASHTO and What Have You Done with Them?

Mon 9: Against Transportation

Fri 6: Columbus: Downtown Mall to Be Demolished

Thu 5: What Does "Profitability" Mean for Transit?

Wed 4: Stimulus Update: Thoroughly Unstimulating

Tue 3: The Stimulus in China Isn't All About Cars

Mon 2: The European Attitude Toward Bikes Is No Accident

January 2009

Fri 30: Envisioning a Future Interstate Rail Network

Thu 29: Stimulus Update: Nadler's Boost and the Senate Plan

Wed 28: Support Rep. Nadler’s Amendment on Transit Funding

Tue 27: Gas Prices Fall, But Auto-to-Transit Shift Continues

Fri 23: Atlanta, Obama and Urbanism

Thu 22: Connected Street Networks Key to Economic Stimulus

Wed 21: U.S. Shovel-Ready Rail Projects—Starting Within Four Months

Tue 20: Moving Faster but Not Going Anywhere

Fri 16: Expand Highways as 160,570 Bridges Await Collapse?

Thu 15: Bike/Ped Bridge, Cycletrack Projects Will Be Fast-Tracked in City Stimulus Plan

Wed 14: What Our Cities Will Look Like in a World Without Oil

Tue 13: Stimulus Package Spotlights Transportation Priorities

Mon 12: Oberstar’s Infrastructure Bill May Define the Transit Equation

Fri 9: Beyond Bike Lanes: True Urban Design

Thu 8: On the Bus: Some Very Interesting People

Wed 7: Thousands of (Bicycle) Parking Spaces Going Away?

Tue 6: Zero Bike Fatalities in 2008: A Q & A with Portland's Greg Raisman

Mon 5: No Policy Change in the Stimulus?

Fri 2: Carfree or Country: It's a False Dichotomy

Thu 1: Looking Ahead to New Transit in 2009

December 2008

Wed 31: The Positivity of the Millennial Generation

Tue 30: What about Malibu? Classism in the Alt Transpo Movement

Mon 29: What Chicago Can't Do After Leasing Meters

Fri 26: Crazy Ideas Department

Wed 24: It's Cyclists and Pedestrians Who Subsidize Motorists

Tue 23: Wisconsin to Expand Highways Where the Air Is Already Unhealthy

Mon 22: Support Transportation for America's Call for a Greener Stimulus

Fri 19: Cyclists' Right to "Full Support of Educated Law Enforcement"

Thu 18: Sidewalks, the Simple Stimulus Solution

Wed 17: Rural Health Suffers from Lack of Biking and Walking Facilities

Tue 16: Obama’s Stimulus Plan May Need a Roads Diet

Mon 15: Economy Is Another Reason to Rethink One-Way Streets

Fri 12: The Case for a Four-Lane Sidewalk

Thu 11: Bailing on the Transit Bailout

Wed 10: City Auditor's Survey: Fewer Cars, More Bikes, Safer Streets

Mon 8: Change Will Come from the Bottom Up

Mon 8: Lacking a Transit Power Broker

Fri 5: Green Streets Growing in Lansing, MI

Thu 4: How Streetcars Can Evolve: A Lesson from San Francisco

Wed 3: Seeking Redemption for the Strip Mall

Tue 2: Let's Not Go Back into the Cheap-Oil Trance

Mon 1: The Perils of Handing Stim Funding to DOTs

November 2008

Mon 24: Walking the Walk

Thu 20: Next Steps for High-Speed Rail

Tue 18: A Low-Carbon Stimulus and Recovery Plan

Sun 16: More Stim for Transit

Sun 16: Bike Lanes Reduce Congestion

Fri 14: Dingell damage control