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May 2013

Fri 24: Bike-Share Leads People to Ride Their Own Bikes More

Thu 23: Memphis to Add 15 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes

Wed 22: The Granddaddy of Sprawl Subsidies, Illustrated

Tue 21: Seven Conservative Reasons to Love Bicycling

Mon 20: Connecticut Train Collision Exposes Cracks in the Northeast Corridor

Fri 17: The Bike Boom Is Happening in Cities Making a Push to Improve Cycling

Thu 16: Next Boondoggle From Wisconsin DOT: Double-Decking Milwaukee Freeway

Wed 15: Big Breakthrough for Active Transportation Within Reach for Missouri

Tue 14: Cyclists Are Special, and They Should Have Their Own Rules

Mon 13: The Wisconsin GOP's Special Flair for Anti-Urban State Politics

Fri 10: Maryland Cops Show How Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Should Be Done

Thu 9: Has Scott Walker Finally Found a Way to Kill the Milwaukee Streetcar?

Wed 8: The Debate About Bike Infrastructure Has Been Settled

Tue 7: Do American Transit Projects Suffer From a Democracy Deficit?

Mon 6: Boston to NYC: Bike-Share Will Be Worth It

Fri 3: The Incompatibility of Resilience and Sprawl

Thu 2: The Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and Why It Barely Registers

Wed 1: If Americans Don't Like Walkable Cities, Why Aren't They Cheaper?

April 2013

Tue 30: The Big Leap From Car-Lite to Car-Free

Mon 29: What Kind of Transpo Secretary Will Anthony Foxx Be?

Fri 26: Teaching Police How to Use Laws That Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists

Thu 25: Miami Attempts to Wall Off Crime, Screws Up City in the Process

Wed 24: The Faulty Logic Behind Pro-Car Populism

Tue 23: The Opportunity Costs of Highway Expansion

Mon 22: Will the FRA Force Amtrak to Build Pricier High-Speed Trains?

Fri 19: AAA Spokesman: Leading DC Urbanist "Retarded" and "Like the Klan"

Thu 18: Orlando Cop Who Struck Pedestrian and Fled Scene Is Caught on Tape

Wed 17: Toronto's Walkability, Analyzed and Illustrated

Tue 16: Real Affordable Housing Begins With Creating More Housing

Mon 15: The Final Act for Portland's $3 Billion CRC Highway Boondoggle?

Fri 12: Walk Score Introduces "ChoiceMaps" to Measure Neighborhood Amenities

Thu 11: Can Richmond Transition to a Multi-Modal City?

Wed 10: In Wisconsin: Driving Stagnates, Highway Spending Accelerates

Tue 9: After Punting on Transit, Indiana Senate Mulls New Highway to Nowhere

Mon 8: How Walkable Is Your State DOT's Headquarters?

Fri 5: The Value of "Good Enough Urbanism"

Thu 4: Why Are State Senators Holding Up Indianapolis's Transit Plans?

Wed 3: Why Were Saudi Women Denied the Right to Bike Until This Week?

Tue 2: Study: Loosening Parking Mandates Leads to More Affordable Housing

Mon 1: U.S. DOT, HHS Announce Public Health Campaign to Reduce Driving

March 2013

Fri 29: Kansas City Residents to Missouri DOT: Enough With the Highways Already

Thu 28: Maryland on the Verge of a Fix for Transportation Funding Woes

Wed 27: When the State DOT Stands in the Way of Local Progress

Tue 26: Introducing the Parking Reform Mayoral Candidate

Mon 25: A Hippocratic Oath for People Who Take Care of Cities

Fri 22: In Many Markets, Rail Beats or Competes With Air Travel

Thu 21: On North American Streets, Space for Bikes Is Right There If You Want It

Wed 20: Indianapolis Parking Minimums Force Walmart to Ask for Less Parking

Tue 19: How the U.S. Tax Code Favors Driving Over Other Modes

Mon 18: What's Killing the Enclosed Mall?

Fri 15: Change Culture, Change Streets: An Anthropological View of Bike Advocacy

Thu 14: The Problem With Entertainment Districts

Wed 13: "Urbanism Should Be Second Nature"

Tue 12: One Reason Federal Funding Is So Important to Transit

Mon 11: Memphis Marching Forward on Safe Streets

Fri 8: SimCity 5 Review: "Simulating 1950's America" in 2013

Thu 7: The Lifeless Reality of Urban Casinos

Wed 6: How to Turn a Public Parking Space Into a Private Storage Locker, Legally

Tue 5: Nevada, Miami, and St. Louis Take Steps Backward on Pedestrian Policy

Mon 4: Washington State Lawmaker: Cyclists Cause Pollution By Exhaling

Fri 1: Has the NTSB Made a Single Recommendation on Bike Safety Since 1972?

February 2013

Thu 28: In Seattle, Transit Supporters Get Ready to Flex Political Muscle

Wed 27: What We Can Learn From the New Wave of Municipal Bankruptcies

Tue 26: Wooing Suburban Drivers With Cheap Parking: A Losing Strategy for Cities

Mon 25: Today's Sign That America Is Falling Behind on Transport Policy

Fri 22: Despite "Fix-It-First" Rhetoric, Obama Still Promoting Highway Expansions

Thu 21: Washington State Considering a "Symbolic" Tax on Bicycles

Wed 20: The Origins of Holland's "Stop Murdering Children" Street Safety Movement

Tue 19: Portland, Mainers Don't Miss Torn Down Road Infrastructure

Fri 15: Litmus Test for Transport Spending: Will It Benefit Our Kids?

Thu 14: Fix-It-First Policy Must Tackle Road Expansions on Track for Federal Loans

Wed 13: Why Obama's "Fix It First" Approach to Infrastructure Matters

Tue 12: How to Create an Unloved Public Space: Surround It With Parking

Mon 11: Could You Give Up Your Car for Lent?

Fri 8: Explaining Public Transit to the Public

Thu 7: Aspen, Colorado, to Vote on "Idaho Stop"

Wed 6: Why Is Charlotte's Former Mayor Challenging Charlotte's Transit Plans?

Tue 5: Lowering Parking Minimums Is Nowhere Close to a "War on Cars"

Mon 4: Why Transpo Bureaucrats Need to Take More Risks

Fri 1: If Pols Won't Raise the Gas Tax, How Else Will They Fund Transportation?

January 2013

Thu 31: Study: People Who Bike or Walk to Work Enjoy Their Commutes the Most

Wed 30: The Case for a Highway Teardown in Dallas

Tue 29: 28 Lanes, 8.5 Minutes to Cross -- Is This America's Worst Intersection?

Mon 28: Actually, Naysayers, Change Is Inevitable

Fri 25: Portland Mega-Highway Backers Resort to "Rebranding"

Thu 24: PA Gov Tom Corbett's Transpo Funding Fix: A Tax on Fossil Fuel

Wed 23: Can Transit Reverse Indianapolis' Center-City Slide?

Tue 22: Repairing the Neighborhood Scars Created By a Freeway

Fri 18: The Safety-in-Numbers Effect Surfaces in Minneapolis Bike Crash Data

Thu 17: Massachusetts' Anticipated Transpo Funding Plan Is a Big Ol' Let Down

Wed 16: VA Gov Bob McDonnell Boots Bypass Opponent From State Transpo Board

Tue 15: Why Do Cities Matter to Michigan?

Mon 14: Will Chicago's Fare Hike Stall Transit Ridership Growth?

Fri 11: Miami Mom Describes the Traumatic Experience That Is Crossing Her Street

Thu 10: The Diminishing Returns of Highway Building

Wed 9: The Practical Genius of Old American Main Streets

Tue 8: What Is the Anti-Density Crowd Really Afraid Of?

Mon 7: Business Leaders Help Win Protected Bike Lanes in Portland

Fri 4: Streets Filled With Driverless Cars: A Perpetual Fantasy?

Thu 3: Getting Bus Rapid Transit Right -- Indianapolis Looks for Examples

Wed 2: Sneak Preview: 2013 in Transit

December 2012

Thu 20: LeBron James, Bike Commuter

Wed 19: Breaking: Sprawl Just as Reliant on "Big Government" as Smart Growth

Tue 18: City Streets for Sale in Providence

Mon 17: Protecting NYC Transit From the Next Storm: Searching for Specifics

Fri 14: DC Residents: Parking Reforms Don't Go Far Enough

Thu 13: How a Group of Young Bike Advocates Are Reshaping Reno

Wed 12: Number of Protected Bike Lanes in America Nearly Doubled in 2012

Tue 11: What's Behind the Rise in Cyclist and Pedestrian Deaths?

Mon 10: Want to End the Scourge of Surface Parking? Tax Land, Not Buildings

Fri 7: Support Streetsblog This Month and You Could Win a Bike!

Fri 7: Sidewalk Bandits Make Off With the Pedestrian Right-of-Way

Thu 6: Why California's Two-Thirds Local Ballot Threshold May Be Worth Keeping

Wed 5: Chicago Bike Lane Envy Sweeps the Nation

Tue 4: DNC Head: Transit "Essential to Our Economic Success"

Mon 3: Two-Way Protected Bike Lane Coming to the Heart of Downtown Chicago

November 2012

Fri 30: Seven Ways to Make Bike-share More Accessible

Thu 29: Without Bypassing Chokepoints, BRT Risks Becoming "Symbolic Transit"

Wed 28: Wisconsin Highway Bonanza: Scott Walker Unfazed by Lack of Funds

Tue 27: Can Chicago Build a Bike-Share System That Works for Everyone?

Mon 26: St. Louis Boy Killed by Drunk Driver, Put in Harm's Way by Design

Wed 21: Bike-Powered Disaster Response Gets National Spotlight

Tue 20: Funding Uncertainty Plagues Highways, But They Still Get Built

Mon 19: School District Threatens Rockville Mom for Putting Her Child on City Bus

Fri 16: One for the Dustbin: The 85th Percentile Rule in Traffic Engineering

Thu 15: Will Philadelphia's City Council Screw the Pooch on Parking Reform?

Wed 14: New Balance to Build Train Station as Part of Its Boston Headquarters

Tue 13: Photos: Toronto Protesters Meet Bike Lane Removal Crew Head On

Mon 12: Enticing Car-Lite Households to Take the Next Step

Fri 9: A New Governor for Washington, a New Day for Transit in Seattle?

Thu 8: Let's Agree: Treating Cities as a Wedge Issue Is Senseless

Wed 7: Why Do Sidewalks Predict Whom We'll Vote For?

Tue 6: How Ohio's Early Voting Rules Discriminate Against City Dwellers

Mon 5: A Changing Marin County Is Still Building Yesterday's Housing

Fri 2: How to Win a Local Campaign: Anchorage Shows the Way

Thu 1: Transit in the NYC Region, After the Storm: Rebuild It Better

October 2012

Wed 31: Is This the Beginning of the End of Climate Silence?

Mon 29: As Another Major Storm Looms, Will Candidates Keep Ignoring Climate?

Thu 25: AAA Revives Offensive Against Safer D.C. Streets

Wed 24: Remembering When Our Streets Belonged to Everyone

Tue 23: Amtrak Hits a Train Speed Milestone in the Midwest

Mon 22: Atlanta Picking Up the Tab for New Stadium as Transit Funding Stagnates

Fri 19: Virginia DOT Using Flawed Data to Justify Charlottesville Bypass

Thu 18: Will This Boost Transit? Maryland Promotes Driving on $2.5 Billion Tollway

Wed 17: A Major Expansion for Charlotte Light Rail

Tue 16: When Did Cities Become Politically Unmentionable?

Mon 15: Boston's Over-the-Top "Bike Safety" Campaign

Fri 12: When Will We See a Department of Transportation and Land Use?

Thu 11: The Washington Nationals: Winning at Sustainable Transportation?

Wed 10: How to Expand Your Transit Network Without Expanding Its Budget

Tue 9: Kansas and Florida Reverse Course on Spurned Trails Funding

Fri 5: Turning Around the Transportation Culture at a School

Thu 4: Car-Oriented Drug Stores: Scourge of the Urban Corner

Wed 3: Private Bus Routes and Silicon Valley's Outmoded Office Model

Tue 2: Is Your Region a "Complete Community"?

Mon 1: How Streets Designed for Speed Led to the Death of a Seventh Grade Girl

September 2012

Fri 28: The Tricky Politics of Introducing a Streetcar to a City

Thu 27: An Ohio Sprawl Leader Begins to Recognize Its Mistakes

Wed 26: Connecticut Towns Nix Highway for Greenway

Tue 25: Slate Examines the Irrational Biases That Underlie Cyclist Hatred

Mon 24: Is It Time for Interbike to Dump Las Vegas?

Fri 21: Police Bias in Car-Bike Collisions? Los Altos, CA May Take the Cake

Thu 20: League of American Bicyclists Introduces "Diamond" Bike-Friendly Status

Wed 19: Planning a Streetcar? Better Get Your Zoning Right

Tue 18: Orlando Looks to Halve Pedestrian Deaths

Mon 17: Fighting (Imaginary) Traffic in Downtown Kansas City

Fri 14: Wisconsin DOT "Flagrantly Ignored" Federal Civil Rights Requirements

Thu 13: Making Neighborhood Streets "Skinny" and Safe

Wed 12: China Racing Past Competitors to Expand City Subways

Tue 11: Almost Every State Chooses to Retain Recreational Trails Funding

Mon 10: Bike-Share and Bike Lanes: The Chicken and Egg Debate

Fri 7: Mexico City Bike-Share Goes Big

Thu 6: One Man's Push to Require Bike Licenses in Oregon

Wed 5: What If We Supplied Hamburgers the Same Way We Supply Roads?

Tue 4: UPDATED: In Miami, Cloaking an Anti-Cycling Proposal in Bike-Friendly Language

August 2012

Fri 31: The Big Deception in Mitt Romney's Global Warming Brush-Off

Thu 30: No More Suburban Office Parks for Downtown Cincinnati

Wed 29: Why Are American Infrastructure Projects So Expensive?

Tue 28: Visualizing the Enormous Squandered Potential in a Parking Lot

Mon 27: The Hidden Benefits of Schlepping Groceries

Fri 24: A View of the Suburban Ghost Towns Surrounding Charlotte

Thu 23: How Grid Systems Promote Urbanism and Winding Streets Undermine It

Wed 22: From "Devil Wagons" to Domination in Two Generations

Tue 21: Cleveland: Progressing on Bike Policy, Still Falling Behind?

Mon 20: As State DOTs Receive Surprise $, Risk and Opportunity for Safe Streets

Fri 17: Walking Rates in America Improve, Still Pitiful

Thu 16: What's It Like to Bike to Work on Separated Lanes? "Awesome."

Wed 15: Syncing Traffic Lights No Sure-Fire Way to Reduce Emissions

Tue 14: WaPo Blames "Distracted Walking" for Unexplained Rise in Deaths

Mon 13: On Transport, Romney-Ryan Ticket Presents Extreme Contrast to Obama

Fri 10: Study: Taxpayer-Backed NBA Arenas Don't Help Local Economies

Thu 9: Greeks Turn to Bikes to Weather Economic Storm

Wed 8: Bikes, Bikes, and... Bikes!

Tue 7: Got an Urban Infrastructure Issue? Make the Bureaucrat Work!

Mon 6: When the Streets Belonged to All, and All Belonged on the Streets

Fri 3: High Economic Stakes for Pittsburgh as Transit Doomsday Looms

Thu 2: Metro Atlanta's Sales Tax "Savings" Will Come at a High Price

Wed 1: Montgomery County Legalizes Two-Family Houses (But Not Really)

July 2012

Tue 31: Portland to Rewrite Car-Centric Street Engineering Standard

Mon 30: The Politics of the I-35 Bridge Catastrophe: Not Just Minnesota's Problem

Fri 27: Matching National Trend, Portland, Maine Sees Decline in Car Ownership

Thu 26: Coming to a Walkable Place Near You: More Efficient Housing

Wed 25: Maybe What We Need Is Ghost Cars

Tue 24: A Big Week for Bicycling in Fort Worth

Mon 23: The Inherent Shallowness of the Rail vs. Bus Debate

Fri 20: Developer of NJ Mega-Mall-Amusement-Park Should Pay for Transit Service

Thu 19: Sprawl and America's Awful, Awful Drought

Wed 18: When "Vulnerable User" Laws Go Unenforced

Tue 17: Holding Out for a More Cost-Effective Plan to Speed Northeast Rail

Mon 16: Skinny Storefronts, a Must for Walkability

Fri 13: In Virginia, Imagining a Less Disruptive Alternative to a Highway

Thu 12: Bullet Train Bombshell: CAHSR Spurned Cost-Cutting Offer From the French

Wed 11: Does Transit Really Have a White People Problem?

Tue 10: A Victory for CA High-Speed Rail, But Still a Long Fight Ahead

Mon 9: DC Metro's Hyper-Vigilance Following Crash Overlooks One Major Threat

Fri 6: Yesterday's Car Subsidies Are Still Shaping Today's Landscape

Thu 5: On Individualism, Being American and Striving for Sustainability

Tue 3: How Much Will New Federal Safety Mandates Cost Transit Agencies?

Mon 2: The Tea Party's Selective Disdain for Transportation Subsidies

June 2012

Fri 29: Which States Do the Most (and the Least) to Support Biking and Walking?

Thu 28: Rails-to-Trails: Final Transpo Bill "Bad News for America" [Updated]

Wed 27: Bike Delivery Businesses Excluded From Clean Air Freight Grant in Portland

Tue 26: Greetings From Walkable, Bikeable, Transit-Oriented Asbury Park, N.J.

Mon 25: Engineer: "Award-Winning" PA Highway Ramps Nothing to Be Proud Of

Fri 22: On Portland's East Side, a Sea of Empty Parking and a Plan to Change It

Thu 21: In Metro Portland, Car Collisions More Costly Than Congestion

Wed 20: Capital Bikeshare Subscribers Save $891 a Year

Tue 19: Is Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Pulling a Scott Walker?

Mon 18: What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet's Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer

Fri 15: Will Dallas Climb Out of the Bike-Friendly Cellar?

Thu 14: California APA Pooh Poohs Statewide Parking Reform Efforts

Wed 13: Ta-da! Money for Highways Appears Out of Nowhere in Texas

Tue 12: Want to Increase Cycling? Sharrows Won't Cut It

Mon 11: Even Most Republicans Don't Want to Slash Spending on Transpo

Fri 8: The Fort Worth Chamber's Hilariously Terrible Vision for the Future

Thu 7: Meet the Bike Entrepreneurs Helping to Rebuild Detroit's Economy

Wed 6: Have Toronto's Bike Lane Butchers Found Another Target?

Tue 5: 10 Years Later: How Cincinnati Healed Its City Core -- and Its Reputation

Mon 4: Cleveland: Building Public Support With Pop-up Cycling Infrastructure

Fri 1: Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory: Completely Absurd, Frighteningly Effective

May 2012

Thu 31: In American Courts, Drivers Still Innocent After Proven Guilty

Wed 30: Seattle Pol Falls Into the "Sustainability Gap"

Tue 29: Wisconsin's Scott Walker and the New Wave of Anti-Urban Politics

Fri 25: As Tuition Prices Rise, Fresno State Spends $4 Million on Parking

Thu 24: Dallas Mayor Reconsiders Support for Downtown Highway Proposal

Wed 23: Bike Registration Laws: A License to Profile?

Tue 22: When Outdated Environmental Laws Prevent Sustainable Development

Mon 21: How Much Will $6 Billion Improve Access to Jobs in Metro Atlanta?

Fri 18: The Urban Premium: Walk Score Linked to Housing Prices

Thu 17: Ladyblogs' Bully-Free Zone Doesn't Apply to Cyclists

Wed 16: How Baton Rouge Brought Its Transit System Back From the Brink

Tue 15: DC: Getting Urban Sports Arena Development Right

Mon 14: Smart Growth Opponents Run Against Portland's Pro-Urbanism Policies

Fri 11: How Chicago's Humboldt Park Neighborhood Embraced Bike Lanes

Thu 10: Will Dallas Buckle Under the Weight of So Much Asphalt?

Wed 9: Pittsburgh Faces a Transit Doomsday

Tue 8: Buy America's Shocking Pricetag

Mon 7: The Reason Foundation's Comically Flawed Research on LA Rail

Fri 4: Will DC's New Parking Czar Take Parking Reform to the Next Level?

Thu 3: A Freeway Revolt Is Brewing in Dallas

Wed 2: Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: Media Portrayals of the Car-Free

Tue 1: So You Have a Complete Streets Policy. Now What?

April 2012

Mon 30: Detroit Gets Back to Its Pre-Motor City Roots With Bike Manufacturing

Fri 27: San Diego Police: Unless the Cyclist Is Killed, Top Penalty Is a Ticket

Thu 26: The Suburbanization of St. Louis Isn't Helping St. Louis

Wed 25: Debunking NIMBY Math on California HSR

Tue 24: New York City to Rein in Megabus, Other Inter-City Bus Services

Mon 23: Hit-and-Run Crashes the Norm in Chicago Pedestrian Deaths

Fri 20: Cities With the Most Highway Miles: a "Who's Who" of Decay

Thu 19: Support Livable Streets Advocacy This Spring!

Thu 19: Citing Budget Constraints, Portland to Invest More in Biking, Not Driving

Wed 18: Dallas City Council Member: Adding Highway Lanes Is Pointless

Tue 17: A TOD Impostor in Fresno

Mon 16: Two Ways to Sustain Wisconsin's Highway Racket: Tolls or Crushing Debt

Fri 13: Study: In Baltimore, One in Six Drivers Pass Cyclists Illegally

Thu 12: What's Wrong With a Car-Centric System? New Video Explains It All

Wed 11: Study Finds Car-Centric Neighborhoods Strongly Tied to Childhood Obesity

Tue 10: The Seattle Times: For Free Markets, Unless They Mean Less Parking

Mon 9: The Great Sprawlback: Census Data Shows A Very Good Year For Cities

Fri 6: Oregon DOT Nixes "Highways Division" for "Multi-Modal" System

Thu 5: Pennsylvania Enacts 4-Foot Passing Law, Nabs Violator on First Day

Wed 4: More Cycling: Good for Everyone -- Not Just Cyclists

Tue 3: Occupy Wall Street's Poorly Targeted Transit Action

Mon 2: Is Rahm Emanuel's $7 Billion Infrastructure Plan Replicable?

March 2012

Fri 30: Providence Station Renovation Plans Fail to Keep Up With the Times

Thu 29: Seattleites Predict A-Park-alypse If Parking Minimums Are Lifted

Wed 28: Wisconsin Highway Binge Continues Under "$mall Government" Walker

Tue 27: Chicago's Parking Requirements Are an Out-of-Date Relic

Mon 26: Capital Bikeshare Both Replaces and Promotes Transit Trips

Fri 23: The Hunt for the Worst Bike Lane in the Midwest

Thu 22: Why Is Seattle's Sound Transit Building a 500-Space Parking Garage?

Wed 21: Raise Fees for Parking, Not Riding

Tue 20: Race to the Bottom: The Sad State of Public Discourse on Gas Prices

Mon 19: What the Rest of the Country Can Learn from Houston's Damn-Low Rents

Fri 16: Feeding the Beast: The Backdoor Ways Transit Subsidizes Roads

Thu 15: The Other Guilty Party in a Traffic Crash: Road Designers

Wed 14: HR 7 Insanity: Air Pollution Funds Would Pay for Highway Expansion

Tue 13: Apple to Build Sprawl-Tastic Corporate Headquarters in Cupertino

Mon 12: All Aboard for a Second-Rate Passenger Rail Experience

Fri 9: Women in Transit: Still Swimming Upstream

Thu 8: The Bicycle in Art: A Universal Symbol of Progress

Wed 7: Driving's Long Decline in Oregon

Tue 6: The Trouble With RoboCars: "You Can't Optimize People So Easily"

Mon 5: From Manhattan to Texas, How Many People Can Live in Cities?

Fri 2: St. Louis Takes the First Step Toward Highway-cide

Thu 1: Hawaiians Know: Friends Don't Let Friends Listen To Randal O'Toole

February 2012

Wed 29: Rental Helmets, Coming Soon to a Bike-Share Station Near You

Tue 28: There's Nothing Free About a Freeway Extension

Mon 27: Cincinnati Neighborhood Group: Bring on the Market-Rate Parking

Fri 24: Pop-Up Urbanism: The Origins of a Movement

Thu 23: Chicago Building a More Bus-Friendly Central City

Wed 22: Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the House Transpo Bill

Tue 21: Seattle Cyclists Find Safety in Numbers

Fri 17: Reminder: States Already Control Transpo $, and They Waste Billions

Thu 16: H.R. 7: Is John Boehner Serious?

Wed 15: In NYC & Florida, Asking Police to Step Up for Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety

Tue 14: House Transpo Bill Turns Communities Into Collateral Damage

Mon 13: Rural Lawmakers Try to Stall a Higher Gas Tax in Maryland

Fri 10: Detroit Transit Woes a Preview of American Transit Under House GOP

Thu 9: A Day of Action to Stop the Attack on Transit, Biking, and Walking

Wed 8: Speeding Enforcement Cameras Work, and They're Coming to Chicago

Tue 7: The Mile-High City Gets Back to Its Rail Roots

Mon 6: Ready to Fight? The House GOP Bill Leaves Little Choice

Fri 3: Study Links Quality Urbanism to Happiness :)

Thu 2: Even More Reasons to Abhor the House Transportation Bill

Wed 1: Austin's Urban Success Threatens Its Iconic Music Venues

January 2012

Tue 31: Even Some Republicans Don't Like the House GOP's Oil Drilling Plan

Mon 30: Kickstarting a "Narrow Streets" Community in Rural Maine

Fri 27: Partisan Labor Fight Threatens Indianapolis's Game-Changing Transit Vision

Thu 26: College Presidents Kill Baltimore Bike Lane

Wed 25: SOTU: Is Obama Retreating on Infrastructure?

Tue 24: Today in Bad Ideas: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's Subway to Suburbia

Mon 23: How the "Right" to Cheap Parking Makes Streets Less Equitable

Fri 20: People Who Live Near Shopping Streets Three Times More Likely to Walk

Thu 19: SC DOT Responds to Cyclist Death By Considering Bike Ban

Wed 18: Getting Around Near and Far -- The Supercharged Bike-Sharing Card

Tue 17: A Safety Fail From the Federal Railroad Administration

Fri 13: In Maryland, Marginalizing Pedestrians Under the Guise of Safety

Thu 12: Fracking to Take a Heavy Toll on Roads

Wed 11: Celebu-Economist: Drunk Driving Safer Than "Drunk Walking"

Tue 10: The Design Tragedies That Pass for Road "Improvements"

Mon 9: Will a Shorter Light Rail Line Work for Detroit?

Fri 6: Seattle Bridge Toll Eases Traffic. Will It Boost Transit, Too?

Thu 5: One Anti-Rail Congress Is No Reason to Delay California HSR

Wed 4: Study: The Key to a Healthy Region Is a Strong Central City

Tue 3: Coming to a City Near You in 2012 -- New Transit Projects Underway

December 2011

Thu 22: Seattle Police Mock "Dumb F***" Jogger Hit by Semi Truck

Wed 21: Health Benefits of Ciclovia Events Outweigh Costs

Tue 20: The Amazing Disappearing State Gas Tax

Mon 19: Will Urban Revitalization Leave Some Cities Behind?

Fri 16: The Silent YIMBY Majority, and Why They Lose

Thu 15: Early Data From SFPark: Drivers Still Flock to Blocks With Pricey Parking

Wed 14: The Cincinnati Streetcar: Triumphing Over an Anti-Transit Governor

Tue 13: Bike Lane-Starved Dallas Moves Forward With First Bike Boulevard

Mon 12: The Secret to a Healthy Life: A Daily, Half-Hour Walk

Fri 9: A Tappan Zee Bridge Without Transit Is a Lousy Jobs Program

Thu 8: Are Cyclists "Elite Snobs"? It Depends on If They're in Your Way

Wed 7: Support a Strong Network of Livable Streets Advocates: Give to Streetsblog

Wed 7: The Federal Government Wants to Bribe You to Drive to Work

Tue 6: Housing Bust Poster-Child Miami Invites More Sprawl

Mon 5: Arkansas Officials Surround State Capitol With Even More Parking

Fri 2: The Great Recession's "Green Lining"

Thu 1: Oakland Cops Can't Be Bothered With OWS Vehicular Assault

November 2011

Wed 30: Epic Job Creation Fail: Paying Developers to Build Parking

Tue 29: Light Rail Expansion Signals an Urbanizing Houston

Mon 28: Can America Afford Not to Bike More?

Wed 23: St. Louis County: We Don't Build Bike Lanes Because No One Bikes

Tue 22: Bye Bye Curbs: Safer Streets in the UK Mix Cars and People

Mon 21: Good Transit Cities Pack Jobs Tightly Together

Thu 17: Greater Cleveland in Denial About Its Downfall: Sprawl

Wed 16: The High Cost of Cheap Roads

Tue 15: More Evidence That Bike Facilities Are Good for Local Businesses

Mon 14: In Massachusetts, Driving Drunk, Getting Caught, Walking Away Scot Free

Fri 11: Mexico City Activists Draw the Line With DIY Bike Lanes

Thu 10: Want to Sell Voters on Transit? Keep It Simple

Wed 9: Raleigh-Durham Voters Give Go-Ahead to Light Rail Plans

Tue 8: Saving the Farm: The Fight to Keep Sprawl From Engulfing Rural America

Mon 7: FRA Safety Regs Add Costs, Not Safety, to American Rail

Fri 4: Report: "Cash for Clunkers" Was a Lemon

Thu 3: Putting the Price of California HSR in Perspective

Wed 2: Fifteen Is Serene: DC Considers 15 MPH Speed Limits

Tue 1: Is City Living the Secret to Happiness?

October 2011

Mon 31: AP: GOP Attacks on Transportation Enhancements Are "Tall Tales"

Fri 28: Memo to Rand Paul: Want Bridges in Better Shape? Invest in Cycling

Thu 27: The Power of Blogs and Social Media in Transportation Policy

Wed 26: The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists

Tue 25: Seattle Drivers Cause Most Crashes, But Seattle Cops Increasingly Cite Peds

Thu 20: Look Out Below: One in Nine Bridges Structurally Deficient, Reports T4A

Wed 19: The Scandalously High Cost of Shortchanging Transit

Tue 18: In South Carolina, a New Era of Justice for Cyclists?

Mon 17: The $125,000 Commute: Not as Uncommon as You'd Think

Fri 14: Cyclist Requests Summit With Jerry Brown After Gov Kills Safe Passing Bill

Thu 13: Lacking Sidewalks, South Fresno Peds Cut Dirt Path Maze Through City

Wed 12: New Jersey Residents: "More Smart Growth, Please"

Tue 11: What the Cycling Movement Can Learn from Occupy Wall Street

Mon 10: Sidewalks Alone Can't Solve the Suburban Megaschools' Walking Problem

Fri 7: Detroit Father Charged With Child Endangerment for Cycling With Sons

Wed 5: No Safe Option for Jersey Teens Killed on Railroad Tracks

Tue 4: Blaming the Victim: Specious Complaints About Cyclist Behavior

Mon 3: Aerotropolis: A New Model for Cities?

September 2011

Fri 30: Critical Mass: Good for Cycling or Bad PR?

Thu 29: Backwards Priorities: Most Vulnerable Commuters Last to Be Considered

Wed 28: So Much for Austerity: Wisconsin Builds $25 Million Interchange in Cornfield

Tue 27: The Toothless Official Response to Air Quality Emergencies

Mon 26: Wait. What? Already? Cleveland Takes Step Backward on Complete Streets

Fri 23: Will Seattle's "Carmageddon" Be as Anti-Climactic as LA's?

Wed 21: One Year In, Capital Bikeshare Shatters Expectations

Tue 20: Should Public Transit Agencies Strive for Profitability?

Mon 19: Park(ing) Day Organizer Arrested in Miami

Fri 16: After Rash of Cyclist Deaths in Seattle, Grief Turns to Anger

Thu 15: Looking to Root Out Transportation Waste? Try Highways to Nowhere

Wed 14: Riding the Sidewalks and Risking Death: The Plight of Las Vegas Cyclists

Tue 13: The Parking Deck vs. the Local Grocery

Mon 12: Ten Years After 9/11, American Oil Addiction Persists

Fri 9: Obama's Jobs Speech Gets the Transportation Wonk Seal of Approval

Thu 8: Georgia DOT: Only People on Bikes Go Joyriding

Wed 7: Will New Haven Replace a Highway With Highway-Like Conditions?

Tue 6: The Indisputable Density Dividend

August 2011

Tue 23: In Portland, Counterposing Demands for Equity and Innovation

Mon 22: Would Taxing Bikes Solve the Infrastructure Problem?

Fri 19: What's Troubling Megabus Haters?

Thu 18: T4A Building Album of USA's Most Dangerous Streets, Needs Your Photos!

Wed 17: How Seattle's Deep-Bore Highway Opponents Lost Their Own Referendum

Tue 16: Maryland SHA: Guardrails are for Protecting Cars, Not People

Mon 15: Transit By Referendum: A New Way Forward for Atlanta and Seattle?

Fri 12: Cyclists Take Black Hawk Bike-Ban Case to Colorado Supreme Court

Thu 11: San Antonio's Sprawl-Busting Transit Chief

Wed 10: When Will the Environmental Movement Embrace Cities?

Tue 9: Chinese Communist Party Emulates America's Socialist Parking Policies

Mon 8: Salt Lake City, Rising Transit Star

Fri 5: The Hidden Costs of Living Far From Work

Thu 4: Downtown Louisville Drowning in a Sea of Parking

Wed 3: Life Outside the Minivan: Car-Free Families Go Their Own Way

Tue 2: Indestructible Cincinnati Streetcar Faces Another Foe

Mon 1: Bike Shops: The Unsung Heroes of the Cycling Movement

July 2011

Fri 29: Charlottesville, Virginia to Bypass Years of Careful Planning

Thu 28: For Raquel Nelson, Justice Still Elusive

Wed 27: Car and Driver Magazine: "We Must Consider Alternative Transportation"

Tue 26: Maryland Police: Fallen Cyclist Shouldn't Have Been on the Road

Mon 25: Dallas Demonstrates How Not to Build a Modern Streetcar

Fri 22: On Gentrification and Cycling

Thu 21: Columbus's Hide-the-Poor Transit Strategy Is, Predictably, Bad for Transit

Wed 20: Mixed Messages: Parking Requirements at Bars

Tue 19: St. Louis, 2008: Another "Carmageddon" That Wasn't

Mon 18: Why Carmageddon (and the Wolfpack Victory) Matters

Fri 15: Don't Count High Speed Rail Out Yet

Thu 14: Federal Government, Despite Progress, Still Acting as Agent of Sprawl

Wed 13: Coincidence? Most Expensive Cities for Parking All Suspiciously Awesome

Tue 12: The Exquisite Irony of the House GOP Transpo Bill Cover

Mon 11: An Unsettling Look at the Early Marketing of the Two-Car Household

Fri 8: Mica's Transpo Bill Would Spell Disaster for Transit

Thu 7: The Motor City's Burgeoning Cycling Scene

Wed 6: DC's Car-Sharing Fee: A Case Study in Bad Parking Policy

Tue 5: The Specious Threat of Spillover Parking

Fri 1: The Social Benefits of Cycling Identified, Enumerated and Imitated

June 2011

Thu 30: Detroit's Sprawl King: Transit Expansion Plan Would Be a "Job Killer"

Wed 29: The Fiction of the Persecuted European Motorist

Tue 28: Coming to a College Campus Near You: More Learning, Less Parking

Mon 27: The Persistence of Job Sprawl in Smaller Cities

Fri 24: The Streetsblog Network Needs Your Support

Fri 24: Rob Ford's Toronto: Moving Backwards

Thu 23: Chicago Experimenting With the "Pedestrian Scramble"

Wed 22: Cycling: What's Holding Women Back?

Tue 21: Streets Built For Bikes and Pedestrians Also Yield More Jobs

Mon 20: Too Many Transfers, Too Much Parking, Not Enough Multi-Modalism

Fri 17: Private Investors Trying to Dictate Detroit Rail Design

Thu 16: Koch-Funded "Scholar" O'Toole: Seniors Love Car Dependence

Wed 15: Transit's Identity Crisis: Social Service or Economic Engine?

Tue 14: Security Measures for Buses and Trains? They Could Make Us Less Safe

Mon 13: Which Comes First: Families Staying in the City, or Better Urban Schools?

Fri 10: "Right-Sizing" Detroit Should Start With Its Sprawling Suburbs

Thu 9: Leapfrog Development Rears Its Ugly Head Outside of Fresno

Wed 8: Look Out Portland, New York, Minneapolis: Here Comes Chicago

Tue 7: India's Parking Policies Lead Down the Road to Car-Choked Cities

Mon 6: A Good Transit Plan Meets a Shaky Financial Commitment in Indianapolis

Fri 3: Building a Groundswell for Safer Streets in the Deep South

Thu 2: Trading Parking Spaces for Park Space

Wed 1: Suburban Office Parks Are Losing Their Beige-Tinted Shimmer

May 2011

Tue 31: The Northeast Corridor: To Privatize or Not to Privatize?

Fri 27: City Councilman Greets Philly's Bike Progress With Anti-Bike Legislation

Thu 26: America's Waning Commitment to Transportation Funding

Wed 25: Columbus Sprawls Through Malls

Tue 24: Washington Tops List of Bike-Friendly States

Mon 23: Detroit Media Mogul: Beware Transport Subsidies (Except for Cars)

Mon 16: Angie Schmitt Goes Toe-to-Toe With Northeast Ohio Sprawl Boosters

Fri 13: "Development-Oriented Transit": Lessons From Hong Kong

Thu 12: Job Sprawl and the Importance of Transit to Suburban Employment Centers

Wed 11: The Problem Isn't Higher Gas Prices, It's Lack of Choice

Tue 10: Blumenauer Bill Would Level the Field for Commuter Tax Benefits

Mon 9: Is More Transit Worthwhile If More Highways Are Part of the Bargain?

Fri 6: Why Planners Need to Exercise (Not Exorcise) Their Passions

Thu 5: Scott Walker, Posterboy for Government Waste

Wed 4: Forget Your Bike Lock? Businesses in Portland Have You Covered

Tue 3: WaPo: Happy Bike Month, Scofflaws!

Mon 2: Will Kids in Strollers Get the Heave-Ho on Boston Buses?

April 2011

Fri 29: Digging a Hole: What's Behind America's Aversion to Fixing It First?

Thu 28: Chasing the Elusive New Transit Rider, Missing the Bus?

Wed 27: Signal Timing and Pedestrian Safety: A Case Study From Baltimore

Tue 26: The New Dynamics That Are Eroding the Market for Sprawl

Mon 25: Arlington Republicans Come Out Against Bike-Share Expansion

Thu 21: It's the Sprawl, Stupid -- The Budget Buster No One's Talking About

Wed 20: Zipcar Goes Public, Seattle Times Goes Road-Crazy, Commuters Go By Bike

Tue 19: Suburban Commuter Rail: Politically Attractive, Functionally Repulsive

Mon 18: The Rising Price of Gas Is the Talk of the Nation

Fri 15: An Australian Perspective on Urban-Suburban Politics

Thu 14: Portland Can't Add Bike Parking Fast Enough to Please Businesses

Wed 13: Local Lawmakers: Don't Mess With Texas Cyclists and Pedestrians

Tue 12: Livability Star Vancouver the Latest City to Look at Highway Removal

Mon 11: Transit and Rail Likely to Take a Hit in Budget Compromise

Fri 8: Activists' Warnings About Miami's Brickell Avenue Prove Prophetic

Thu 7: The Ryan Budget: Doing the Same Thing, Expecting a Different Result

Wed 6: In Energy-Uncertain Future, Indiana DOT Bets That Nothing Will Change

Tue 5: How Far Should Bike and Transit Advocates Take Their Alliance?

Mon 4: Lavishing Developers With Publicly Funded Infrastructure in the D.C. Burbs

Fri 1: What L.A.'s 30/10 Plan Could Mean for Transit Funding Nationwide

March 2011

Thu 31: Obama's Energy Security Speech Misses the Mark

Wed 30: Pro-Sprawl Policies Help Make Milwaukee America's Most Segregated Metro

Tue 29: Bad Ideas 101: An Outer-Outerbelt for Charlotte

Mon 28: Happy 35th Birthday, D.C. Metro

Fri 25: Newsflash: Highways Are Handouts for Developers, Too

Thu 24: There's a New Sheriff at Ohio DOT, and He Likes Asphalt

Wed 23: Car Companies Vie for Supremacy in Distracted Driving Arms Race

Tue 22: A Casino for Lower Manhattan? How Banishing Vice Can Backfire

Mon 21: Transit Agencies Seeking Operating Support Meet Politics as Usual

Fri 18: Sapping Street Life in Dallas, Ordinance by Ordinance

Thu 17: Tea Party Conspiracy Theorists Descend on Charlottesville, VA

Wed 16: Downtowns Are Back, and They're Bringing Central Neighborhoods Along

Tue 15: Trying to Lure Google? Better Have Mixed-Use, Walkable Development

Mon 14: In Detroit, Competing Interests Offer Competing Visions for Rail

Thu 10: Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. the Cincinnati Streetcar

Wed 9: State DOT "Improvements" Imperil Pedestrians in Florida

Tue 8: Bypasses of Bypasses: A Case Study on Induced Sprawl From North Carolina

Mon 7: Is Generational Turnover Necessary for the Return of Cities?

Fri 4: Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So

Thu 3: Beyond Bus v. Rail: A Nuanced Approach to Evaluating Transit

Wed 2: Is Driving on the Decline in the Pacific Northwest?

Tue 1: A Car Becomes a Weapon in Brazil; Pedestrians Shortchanged in Detroit

February 2011

Mon 28: Condos, Parking Lots, and Transit: D.C.'s Transportation Crossroads

Fri 25: Sprawl Wallops St. Louis With Eight Percent Population Loss

Thu 24: Rochester Residents, Left Out of Transpo Bill Hearing, Create Their Own

Wed 23: Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker: Let Them Drive Cars

Tue 22: Less Is More: Highway Removal Could Make Buffalo a Better City

Fri 18: House Republicans Threaten Critical Transit Expansions Across the Nation

Thu 17: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Has Some Strange Ideas About Job Creation

Wed 16: LaHood: Rail Is the Way Forward

Tue 15: Transportation Reformers Applaud Obama's Six-Year Transpo Plan

Mon 14: Backwards Budgeting, City Love, and Dangerous Hybrids

Fri 11: When Will AASHTO Revise Its Policy Against Separated Bike Lanes?

Thu 10: More Cyclists = Safer Cycling in Minneapolis

Wed 9: New Jersey's TOD Tax Credit Is Producing Jobs

Tue 8: Sprawl Breeds Sprawl

Mon 7: Virginia Tea Party: GOP Development Policies = Eco-Extremism

Fri 4: Award-Winning Transit-Oriented Development May Never Get Transit

Thu 3: The Dividends of Car-Free Parenting

Wed 2: What Does John McCain Have Against Bikes at Airports?

Tue 1: How Cars Won the Early Battle for the Streets

January 2011

Mon 31: Rahm Emanuel's Bike Plan for Chicago Gets High Marks

Fri 28: Measuring the Global Health Impact of Transportation Reform

Thu 27: The Long and Triumphant History of Women in Cycling

Wed 26: St. Louis: Plenty of Highways, Little Congestion, Long Commutes

Tue 25: Republican Opposition to Transit: A Geographic Explanation

Mon 24: Green Transportation Projects Moving Forward in Florida, Detroit

Fri 21: The Maddening Wrongness of TTI's Annual Urban Mobility Rankings

Thu 20: Making Room for Modes Other Than Cars

Wed 19: Is It Time to Outlaw Car Radios?

Tue 18: Can Good Planning Tame the Suburban Retail Monster?

Fri 14: Returning Streets to People in South Korea: The Political Dividend

Thu 13: Oregon Lawmaker Wants to Outlaw Cycling With Young Children

Wed 12: Cycling Up 70 Percent on London's Bike Superhighways

Tue 11: Highway Expansion Rampant in Wisconsin, Which "Can't Afford" Rail

Mon 10: Going Car-Free in a Car-Centric City

Fri 7: In Iowa, Another Midwest HSR Plan in Jeopardy

Thu 6: U.S. Auto Safety Standards: Undermining Efficiency, Ignoring Pedestrians

Wed 5: A Lesson in Heading Off Anti-Reform Rhetoric

Tue 4: Beating the Fare Hike Blues

Mon 3: A Transportation Manifesto For a New Decade

December 2010

Tue 21: Demanding Action on a Deadly Road in Portland

Mon 20: Wooing the Hesitant Cyclist

Fri 17: Arlington, Virginia: Livable By Design

Thu 16: The Secret to Enjoying Winter: Ditch the Car

Wed 15: Report: Commuters in Eugene, Oregon Have It Best

Tue 14: New Jersey Gets It Wrong on Parking Lot Privatization

Mon 13: How to Talk to a Conservative About Cycling

Fri 10: Can Rear-View Cameras Make SUVs Safer?

Thu 9: Reincarnated ARC Tunnel Funds Proposed to Support Auto Infrastructure

Wed 8: Fort Worth City Council Smothers Streetcar in Its Crib

Tue 7: D.C.'s Metro Sees Cycling as an Opportunity to Grow Ridership

Mon 6: In Dallas, Sprawling City Form Hampers Shift to Light Rail

Fri 3: Fire Officials Challenge Street Safety Improvements in Virginia

Thu 2: Lessons For St. Louis From the UK's "20's Plenty" Campaign

Wed 1: Linking Transportation, Food Access and Health

November 2010

Tue 30: The Final Push to Preserve an Important Benefit for Transit Riders

Mon 29: Multi-Family Developers: Easy Targets, Unintended Consequences

Wed 24: The Florida State DOT vs. Livability

Tue 23: A Former Traffic Engineer on the Industry's Perverse Standards

Mon 22: Using Parking Fees to Reduce Street Consumption

Fri 19: Garage to Condo: The Case for Convertible Parking Space

Thu 18: Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact the Future of Car Sharing?

Wed 17: European Carmakers Get Into the Bicycle Business

Tue 16: Shocker: Returning $3B to Feds Won't Cure Ailing NJ Transpo Budget

Mon 15: Retrofitting the Suburban Strip

Fri 12: "As Efficient as a U-Haul" -- One Family's Story of Moving by Bike

Thu 11: U.S. Trade Deficit Joined at the Hip to U.S. Oil Dependence

Wed 10: A Promising Start for Minneapolis Bike-Sharing

Tue 9: How Indianapolis Could Raise the Bar for Midwest Transit Investment

Mon 8: Estranged Bedfellows: Trains and Conservatism

Fri 5: Young People on Car Ownership: Meh

Thu 4: Columbus Developers: Transit Riders Are Bad for Business

Wed 3: The Fiscal Argument for Transportation Reform

Tue 2: In Austin and Around the Nation: Big Stakes for Green Transportation

Mon 1: Could Restructuring the Gas Tax Fund the Transportation Bill?

October 2010

Fri 29: Separating Cyclists From Air Pollution

Thu 28: Becoming a YIMBY for Livable Communities

Wed 27: Cycling Tips From a Bike-Commuting Bus Driver

Tue 26: How One Arizona Town Is Encouraging People to Get High and Drive

Mon 25: The Case Against Linking Bike Safety Improvements to Cyclists' Behavior

Fri 22: The Shrinking American House: A Sign of a Cultural Shift?

Thu 21: Can Suburbs and Sustainability Coexist?

Wed 20: In Detroit, a Long-Overdue Push to Create a Cohesive Transit System

Tue 19: How Walkable Are the Streets Near Your Transit Stop?

Mon 18: How Would You Define Transit-Oriented Development?

Fri 15: The Fitness Gap: Americans Walk Far Less Than People in Other Countries

Thu 14: Which Cities Are Making the Quickest Shift Away From Cars?

Wed 13: Sounding the Alarm on Bike-Ped Deaths and Injuries in D.C.

Tue 12: The Pay Toilet: Coming Soon to a Street Corner Near You?

Fri 8: In Death of ARC Tunnel, Political Grandstanding Trumps Governing

Thu 7: Mourning the Potential Loss of Bus Service in Long Island

Wed 6: Questioning Obama's Transpo Legacy as Fresno County Sprawls

Tue 5: Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets?

Mon 4: Given a Choice, NJ and PA Sacrifice Bike-Ped Funding

Fri 1: Bike Boxes Stoke Motorist Resentment in Seattle

September 2010

Thu 30: How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl

Wed 29: New Orleans, Honolulu Rocket Up the Bike Commute Charts

Tue 28: Investigative Series on Transpo Safety Overlooks Most Vulnerable Travelers

Mon 27: When It Comes to Successful Transit, Density Is Not Destiny

Fri 24: "Forgiving" Distracted Driving Won't Keep Our Streets Safe

Thu 23: Development Near Transit Too Pricey? Build More Transit

Wed 22: Reclaiming the Streets on World Car Free Day

Tue 21: The Local Planning Commission: Still Hindering Progress Toward Walkability

Mon 20: The Psychology of Road Rage: How Cars Transform Others Into Obstacles

Fri 17: Making Transportation Safer for "Invisible Cyclists"

Thu 16: The Unnatural Demise (and Possible Revival) of the Baltimore Streetcar

Wed 15: In Miami, Advocating for Parking Surplus to Pay for Better Transit

Tue 14: Portland School Casts Off Bike Ban, Embraces Cycling

Mon 13: Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick

Thu 9: Leinberger: Infrastructure Bank the Right Prescription for Ailing Economy

Wed 8: Green Transportation Depends on Reining in Space for Cars

Tue 7: First Impressions of Obama's Big Infrastructure Announcement

Fri 3: Traffic Death Experts Ignore the Role of Dangerous Streets

Thu 2: Livability: A Small Town Value

Wed 1: Debunking the Myth of Motorist Entitlement to Monopolize the Road

August 2010

Tue 31: One More Legal Hurdle for Texas Cyclists

Mon 30: Winning Votes for Transit: Lessons From a Conservative

Fri 27: DC Region Thinks Bigger for Bike-Sharing

Thu 26: Proof From Jersey That Laws Protecting Crosswalks Don't Endanger Peds

Wed 25: In Support of Atlanta's Streetcar Proposal

Tue 24: In Atlanta's TIGER Bid, Innovative "Beltline" Takes Backseat to Streetcar

Mon 23: New Evidence Links Sprawl to Parking Minimums

Fri 20: The Public Hazards of Privatizing Infrastructure

Thu 19: Texas Judge Deems Cyclist Guilty for Riding on the Road

Wed 18: Wisconsin Gov Candidate Threatens Rail Extension

Tue 17: Houston METRO Expands Access By Removing Seats

Fri 13: Delaware Gov Signs Bill to Protect Cyclists and Pedestrians

Thu 12: Is Your Home Less Affordable Than You Think, or More?

Wed 11: Chicago Commuter Rail Spends Big on Trucking

July 2010

Fri 30: 500 Square Miles Lost to New Jersey Sprawl Over 20 Years

Thu 29: Why Isn't Traffic Reduction a Top Public Health Concern?

Wed 28: Sales Tax Hike Could Save Olympia's Transit System

Tue 27: On the 20th Anniversary of ADA, Too Many Streets Remain Inaccessible

Mon 26: More Space for Parking Than Offices at Boston-Area TOD

Fri 23: What If Roads Really Did Have to Pay for Themselves?

Thu 22: Sympathy for the Careless Driver

Wed 21: Finding the Buses That Need a Speed Boost

Tue 20: Night of the Living Highway Extension

Mon 19: Atlanta Releases Nation's Largest Survey of Transit Riders

Thu 15: New Jersey Transit Village Program Continues to Grow

Wed 14: How in Good Conscience Can St. Charles County, Missouri Ban Bicycles?

Tue 13: Will California Achieve Its Anti-Sprawl Targets?

Mon 12: The Overwhelming Majority of Drivers Don't Want to Hurt You

Fri 9: Accounting for the Economic Payoff of Streetcars and Buses

Thu 8: Ohio DOT Can't Fathom Bike-Ped Access on Downtown Cleveland Bridge

Wed 7: Yes, You Can Move the Needle on Public Support for a Gas Tax Hike

Tue 6: The Freedom to Not Drive

Fri 2: What Does American Exceptionalism Mean For Livable Streets?

Thu 1: Telling the Story of Chicago, One Train Stop at a Time

June 2010

Wed 30: HUD Chief Preaches Livable Communities at Conference on Cities

Tue 29: Chicago Takes Tentative First Step Toward Bike-Sharing

Mon 28: Seeing the Street as a New Cyclist

Fri 25: It's Been a Great Ride

Thu 24: Jail Time for Hunting Down People on Bikes With a Car While Drunk: Zero

Wed 23: National Parks Service Encourages Exploration of Downtown St. Louis

Tue 22: A Boom in Bike Parking for Forth Worth

Mon 21: "They Have to Do the Right Thing or Else They’re Going to Get Killed"

Fri 18: Better Than Boycotting BP: Getting Out of the Car

Thu 17: No Better Time to "Dump the Pump"

Wed 16: The High Cost of (Bike) Parking

Tue 15: A Transit Education in Santa Rosa

Mon 14: Pedestrians Caught in the Crosswalk

Fri 11: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Accessibility

Thu 10: How Is a Parking Space Different From a Toilet?

Wed 9: More Bike Parking Goodness

Tue 8: Squeaky Wheels Get the Bike Parking

Mon 7: Like They Say, It Really Is All About Location

Fri 4: Plummeting Bike Use in Beijing, and the Need for a Global Strategy

Thu 3: To E-Bike or Not to E-Bike

Wed 2: Younger People Driving Less, Auto Industry Getting Nervous

Tue 1: What Do Sushi and Bicycles Have in Common?

May 2010

Fri 28: Walking Away From Oil Dependence, One Day at a Time

Thu 27: When Stop Signs Stop Working

Wed 26: Bike Infrastructure Where You Live

Tue 25: The Transit Hierarchy of Needs

Mon 24: Why Drag Two Tons of Car With You Wherever You Go?

Fri 21: New Urbanist Silverback Andres Duany and the Young Locusts

Thu 20: The Active Transportation Scene in Sioux Falls

Wed 19: Seeking the Next Interstate System, This Time Without Asphalt

Tue 18: Consequences for Banana-Throwers, and the Case for Human Decency

Mon 17: The Potential for Private Investment in Transit

Fri 14: To Succeed, Cities Need to Be Themselves

Thu 13: The Road to the Future Is Not a Drive-Thru

Wed 12: Bike Infrastructure Where You Live

Wed 12: Maine DOT Leaves Portland Pedestrians Stranded

Tue 11: The Great Bicyclist Responsibility Debate Continues

Mon 10: Brookings Report: "Bright Flight" Transforming Cities and Suburbs

Fri 7: Should Transit Systems Charge More During Peak Hours?

Thu 6: The Fine Art of Balancing a Street's Ecosystem

Wed 5: Pennsylvania Avenue Bike Lanes Provide Media Platform for Local AAA

Tue 4: In New Orleans, You Should Follow the River

Mon 3: Helping Pittsburghers Kick Their Car Habit

April 2010

Fri 30: Will Big Companies Really Be Able to Resist Sprawl's Siren Song?

Wed 28: For Some Businesses, Suburbs Have Lost Their Glow -- the City Beckons

Tue 27: Could Delhi Transform Its Polluted Canal System Into Verdant Bikeways?

Mon 26: When Illness Changes Your Ability to Get Where You Need to Go

Fri 23: Why We Focus on Unsafe Cycling and Not Unsafe Driving

Thu 22: In Portland, Construction Can't Kill a Bike Lane

Wed 21: In Dallas, a Community Transforms a Street

Tue 20: Parking Lots Shouldn't Take Up Prime Streetfront Real Estate

Mon 19: The Persistence of Bike Salmon

Fri 16: Rep. Steve LaTourette Backpedals on Dismissive Cycling Remarks

Thu 15: Going the Last Mile by Bike

Wed 14: What Do We Want from the Place We Call Home?

Tue 13: How Quickly the Windshield Perspective Takes Hold

Mon 12: Using a Twitter Hashtag to Get People on the Bike

Fri 9: Families on Transit Where You Live

Thu 8: In Charleston, a Movement to Get Cyclists Their Space

Wed 7: St. Louis Votes to Fund Transit; Fort Worth Goes Ahead with Streetcar

Tue 6: Chicago's New BRT Push Will Be Linked to "Livability"

Mon 5: Looking for the Future of Small Cities

Fri 2: The True Cost of a Miserable Commute

Thu 1: Demanding Complete Streets in South Florida

March 2010

Wed 31: Los Angeles as a Model Transit City?

Tue 30: Why Fort Worth Needs Its Streetcar

Mon 29: What's So Scary About Bicycle Infrastructure?

Fri 26: Older People Need Safer Streets for True Independence

Thu 25: A School Where You Have to Use Your Own Two Feet

Wed 24: Revisiting the Idea of a Bicycle Tax

Tue 23: What We're Really Saying When We Say "Alternative"

Mon 22: Getting Romantic About Transit

Fri 19: Getting More Women on the Bike

Thu 18: How Can Bicycles and Buses Share the Road More Safely?

Wed 17: Photo Call: Families on Transit Where You Live

Tue 16: How Infrastructure Shapes the Way We Move

Mon 15: Does Your City Have Ambitions?

Fri 12: Streetsblog Commenters, Unite!