Angie Schmitt

Angie Schmitt is a recovering newspaper reporter who joined Streetsblog in 2009. A Cleveland resident, she has a master's degree in urban planning and maintains a Network blog (rustwire.com) that focuses on industrial cities.
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Posts by Angie

2013
May 17: Does the Gender Disparity in Engineering Harm Cycling in the U.S.? 8
May 17: The Bike Boom Is Happening in Cities Making a Push to Improve Cycling 0
May 16: There’s No Doubt: Traffic Enforcement Cameras Save Lives 35
May 16: Next Boondoggle From Wisconsin DOT: Double-Decking Milwaukee Freeway 0
May 15: Big Breakthrough for Active Transportation Within Reach for Missouri 0
May 14: NTSB: States Should Have Tougher Drunk Driving Rules 0
May 14: Cyclists Are Special, and They Should Have Their Own Rules 0
May 13: How Denver Repaired Its Epic Parking Crater 3
May 13: Parking Madness Champion Tulsa Moves to Limit Surface Parking Downtown 6
May 13: The Wisconsin GOP’s Special Flair for Anti-Urban State Politics 0
May 10: Job Sprawl Leader Atlanta Shows Signs of Reversal 0
May 10: Maryland Cops Show How Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Should Be Done 0
May 09: Has Scott Walker Finally Found a Way to Kill the Milwaukee Streetcar? 0
May 08: Study: Walkable Infill Development a Goldmine for City Governments 9
May 08: The Debate About Bike Infrastructure Has Been Settled 0
May 07: The Inequitable Toll of Pedestrian Deaths 8
May 07: Do American Transportation Projects Suffer From a Democracy Deficit? 0
May 06: Will the Nation’s First Strategic Freight Plan be Multi-Modal? 1
May 06: Boston to NYC: Bike-Share Will Be Worth It 0
May 03: Too Bad Captain America Can’t Rescue Cleveland From Ohio DOT 5
May 03: The Incompatibility of Resilience and Sprawl 0
May 02: The Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and Why It Barely Registers 0
May 01: Washington, Colorado, and Oregon Win Top Bike-Friendly State Honors 1
May 01: A Sensible Alternative to Wisconsin’s Gold-Plated Highway Budget 0
May 01: If Americans Don’t Like Walkable Cities, Why Aren’t They Cheaper? 0
Apr 30: The Big Leap from Car-Lite to Car-Free 0
Apr 29: Expanding Car-Share Beyond America’s Biggest Cities 6
Apr 29: What Kind of Transpo Secretary Will Anthony Foxx Be? 0
Apr 26: Detroit Transit, Already in Desperate Situation, to Lose Money to Suburbs 0
Apr 26: Teaching Police How to Use Laws That Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists 0
Apr 25: In Colorado, a Big Legal Victory for Active Transportation Funding 3
Apr 25: Miami Attempts to Wall Off Crime, Screws Up City in the Process 0
Apr 24: Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings 4
Apr 24: The Faulty Logic Behind Pro-Car Populism 0
Apr 23: Where Is the Bottom? Americans Continue to Drive Less and Less 26
Apr 23: The Opportunity Costs of Highway Expansion 0
Apr 19: AAA Spokesman: Leading DC Urbanist “Retarded” and “Like the Klan” 0
Apr 18: Transport U: Mode Shift at MIT 0
Apr 18: Orlando Cop Who Struck Pedestrian and Fled Scene Is Caught on Tape 0
Apr 17: Transport U: Stanford Turns Green Commuting Into Greenbacks 3
Apr 17: Toronto’s Walkability, Analyzed and Illustrated 0
Apr 16: Transport U: Colleges Save Millions By Embracing Policies to Reduce Driving 41
Apr 16: Real Affordable Housing Begins With Creating More Housing 0
Apr 15: A Better Way to Grade City Transportation Systems 5
Apr 15: The Final Act for Portland’s $3 Billion CRC Highway Boondoggle? 0
Apr 12: Is Federal Bike Lane Guidance Working in Your City? 1
Apr 12: Walk Score Introduces “ChoiceMaps” to Measure Neighborhood Amenities 0
Apr 11: In a Landslide, Tulsa Wins the Parking Madness “Golden Crater” Award 23
Apr 11: Can Richmond Transition to a Multi-Modal City? 0
Apr 10: Obama’s 2014 Transpo Budget Calls for Higher Spending, HSR 2
Apr 10: In Wisconsin: Driving Stagnates, Highway Spending Accelerates 0
Apr 09: It’s Tulsa vs. Milwaukee in the Parking Madness Championship! 48
Apr 09: After Punting on Transit, Indiana Senate Mulls New Highway to Nowhere 0
Apr 08: Final Four Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Houston 15
Apr 08: How Walkable Is Your State DOT’s Headquarters? 0
Apr 05: Final Four Parking Madness Matchup: Milwaukee vs. Dallas 13
Apr 05: Feds Lay Out Wide-Ranging Visions for the Future of the NE Corridor 2
Apr 05: The Value of “Good Enough Urbanism” 1
Apr 04: “Elite Eight” Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Cleveland 21
Apr 04: Why Are State Senators Holding Up Indianapolis’s Transit Plans? 0
Apr 03: The “Elite Eight” of Parking Madness: Milwaukee vs. Columbia 9
Apr 03: Why Were Saudi Women Denied the Right to Bike Until This Week? 0
Apr 02: “Elite Eight” Parking Madness: Louisville vs. Houston 2
Apr 02: Study: Loosening Parking Mandates Leads to More Affordable Housing 0
Apr 01: The “Elite Eight” of Parking Madness: Atlanta vs. Dallas 5
Apr 01: U.S. DOT, HHS Announce Public Health Campaign to Reduce Driving 0
Mar 29: Parking Madness: Minneapolis vs. Columbia, South Carolina 10
Mar 28: Parking Madness: San Bernardino vs. Houston 22
Mar 28: Maryland on the Verge of a Fix for Transportation Funding Woes 0
Mar 27: Parking Madness: Atlanta vs Denver 6
Mar 27: Parking Madness: Cleveland vs. Spokane 17
Mar 27: When the State DOT Stands in the Way of Local Progress 0
Mar 26: Parking Madness: Louisville vs. San Diego 13
Mar 26: Introducing the Parking Reform Mayoral Candidate 0
Mar 25: Parking Madness: Los Angeles vs. Dallas 19
Mar 25: A Hippocratic Oath for People Who Take Care of Cities 0
Mar 22: Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Philly [Updated] 15
Mar 22: In Many Markets, Rail Beats or Competes With Air Travel 0
Mar 21: Parking Madness Kicks Off With Milwaukee vs. Jersey City – Cast Your Vote! 19
Mar 21: On North American Streets, Space for Bikes Is Right There If You Want It 0
Mar 20: Study: Car Commuters Put on More Weight Than Active Commuters 27
Mar 20: Indianapolis Parking Minimums Force Walmart to Ask for Less Parking 0
Mar 19: New Threat: States Robbing From Education to Pay for Highway Expansions 3
Mar 19: Will Vehicular Cyclists and the “Right to Park” Trump Safer Streets in Boston? 152
Mar 19: How the U.S. Tax Code Favors Driving Over Other Modes 0
Mar 18: Krugman: Costs of Driving Deserve Way More Attention 16
Mar 18: What’s Killing the Enclosed Mall? 0
Mar 15: Local B-cycle Memberships Will Be Good in 15 Cities 6
Mar 15: Change Culture, Change Streets: An Anthropological View of Bike Advocacy 0
Mar 14: The Smart Land Use Program Both Democrats and Republicans Love 0
Mar 14: The Problem With Entertainment Districts 0
Mar 13: Midwestern Cities Race to Adopt, and Grow, Bike-Share 8
Mar 13: Senate Restores MAP-21 Funding Through 2013 0
Mar 13: “Urbanism Should Be Second Nature” 0
Mar 12: What Houston Could Learn from Singapore’s Free Flowing Streets 1
Mar 12: While Amtrak Subsidies Draw Fire From Congress, Aviation Gets a Free Pass 55
Mar 12: One Reason Federal Funding Is So Important to Transit 0
Mar 11: Why Do People Quit Riding Transit? It’s the On-Board Delays, Stupid 13
Mar 11: Memphis Marching Forward on Safe Streets 0
Mar 08: In Violation of MAP-21 Promises, House Votes to Cut Transportation Spending 5
Mar 08: SimCity 5 Review: “Simulating 1950′s America” in 2013 0
Mar 07: Long-Distance Commuting Hits a Wall 1
Mar 07: The Lifeless Reality of Urban Casinos 0
Mar 06: AAA Still Up to Its Old Tricks Fighting Progressive Transport Policy 6
Mar 06: How to Turn a Public Parking Space Into a Private Storage Locker, Legally 0
Mar 05: Seeking Submissions: The Worst Parking Crater in an American Downtown 29
Mar 05: Nevada, Miami, and St. Louis Take Steps Backward on Pedestrian Policy 0
Mar 04: Ohio Puts the Squeeze on People’s Right to Walk 8
Mar 04: Washington State Lawmaker: Cyclists Cause Pollution By Exhaling 0
Mar 01: Political Piñata Amtrak Is the Fastest Growing Transportation Mode 35
Mar 01: Has the NTSB Made a Single Recommendation on Bike Safety Since 1972? 0
Feb 28: Sprawl Madness: Two Houses Share Backyard, Separated by 7 Miles of Roads 45
Feb 27: For Eighth Year in a Row, the Average American Drove Fewer Miles in 2012 2
Feb 27: What We Can Learn From the New Wave of Municipal Bankruptcies 0
Feb 26: Niagara Falls, New York, Gets Go-Ahead for Highway Teardown 6
Feb 26: Did “Anti-Cyclist Bias” Let a Hit-and-Run Killer Off the Hook in Boston? 8
Feb 25: Pedestrian Safety, as Brought to You By Florida DOT and NASCAR 0
Feb 25: Today’s Sign That America Is Falling Behind on Transport Policy 0
Feb 22: Midwest Govs Go All Out to Raise More Money for Highways 6
Feb 22: Despite “Fix-It-First” Rhetoric, Obama Still Promoting Highway Expansions 0
Feb 21: NSC: 36,200 Americans Killed in Traffic in 2012, First Increase in 7 Years 3
Feb 21: Chicago, Seattle Mayors Spar Over Bike Lanes, Tech Workers 8
Feb 21: Washington State Considering a “Symbolic” Tax on Bicycles 0
Feb 20: Making Your City More Walkable? That’s Not “Zoning” 9
Feb 19: Walkonomics Sets Out to Create a New Way to Measure Walkability 7
Feb 19: Portland, Mainers Don’t Miss Torn Down Road Infrastructure 0
Feb 15: U.S. DOT’s First-Ever Freight Plan May Include 3,000 New Highway Miles 5
Feb 15: Litmus Test for Transport Spending: Will It Benefit Our Kids? 0
Feb 14: Meet the Rural Region That Opted for VelociBuses Over Highway Expansion 5
Feb 14: Fix-It-First Policy Must Tackle Road Expansions on Track for Federal Loans 0
Feb 13: Why Obama’s “Fix it First” Approach to Infrastructure Matters 0
Feb 12: How to Create an Unloved Public Space: Surround It With Parking 0
Feb 11: Mayor Mark Mallory on How Smart Growth Helped Turn Cincinnati Around 6
Feb 11: Chattanooga Bike-Share: Lessons for Smaller Cities 11
Feb 11: Could You Give Up Your Car for Lent? 0
Feb 08: Designing Communities for Longevity: The Blue Zones Project 6
Feb 07: Does Riding Transit Make You More Civic-Minded? 3
Feb 07: Aspen, Colorado, to Vote on “Idaho Stop” 0
Feb 06: Why Is Charlotte’s Former Mayor Challenging Charlotte’s Transit Plans? 0
Feb 05: The Votes Are In: Omaha Abomination Voted Worst Intersection in the U.S. 44
Feb 05: Lowering Parking Minimums Is Nowhere Close to a “War on Cars” 0
Feb 04: Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Down Black Hawk Bike Ban 4
Feb 04: Report: Most States Have Poor Safeguards Against the Revolving Door 4
Feb 04: Why Transpo Bureaucrats Need to Take More Risks 0
Feb 01: The Revolving Door: TxDOT’s Phil Wilson, “Revolver in Chief” 9
Feb 01: If Pols Won’t Raise the Gas Tax, How Else Will They Fund Transportation? 0
Jan 31: Poll: The Hunt for the Worst Intersection in America Continues 39
Jan 31: Study: People Who Bike or Walk to Work Enjoy Their Commutes the Most 0
Jan 30: The Revolving Door: Oklahoma’s Gary Ridley – Asphalt Lobbyist, DOT Chief 5
Jan 30: Ohio’s “Jobs and Transportation Plan”: A Blueprint for Robbing Young People 3
Jan 29: The State DOT Revolving Door: Meet Jerry Wray, Ohio’s “Asphalt Sheriff” 11
Jan 29: 28 Lanes, 8.5 Minutes to Cross — Is This America’s Worst Intersection? 0
Jan 28: Meet the $4.7 Billion Birmingham Highway Only Cronyism Could Build 11
Jan 28: Actually, Naysayers, Change Is Inevitable 0
Jan 25: Portland Mega-Highway Backers Resort to “Rebranding” 0
Jan 24: Seattle “Bikelash” Largely Invented, Poll Finds 6
Jan 24: PA Gov Tom Corbett’s Transpo Funding Fix: A Tax on Fossil Fuel 0
Jan 23: UPDATED: Drivers Cover Just 51 Percent of U.S. Road Spending 57
Jan 23: Road Diets Are Changing American Cities for the Better 8
Jan 23: Can Transit Reverse Indianapolis’ Center-City Slide? 0
Jan 22: Did Barack Obama’s Election Change the Way Washington Commutes? 2
Jan 22: Repairing the Neighborhood Scars Created By a Freeway 0
Jan 18: The Brilliant, Satirical Campaign for More Parking in Michigan 8
Jan 18: The Safety-in-Numbers Effect Surfaces in Minneapolis Bike Crash Data 0
Jan 17: Does Detroit Need Another $1.8 Billion of Freeway? MDOT Thinks So 18
Jan 17: Massachusetts’ Anticipated Transpo Funding Plan Is a Big Ol’ Let Down 0
Jan 16: Glenn Beck: Double Agent for Agenda 21? 16
Jan 16: VA Gov Bob McDonnell Boots Bypass Opponent From State Transpo Board 0
Jan 15: Citing Lack of Funds, Tennessee Calls Off $1.5 Billion Highway Project 5
Jan 15: Why Do Cities Matter to Michigan? 0
Jan 11: Will Massachusetts Tax Parking Lots to Fund Transit? 13
Jan 11: Miami Mom Describes the Traumatic Experience That Is Crossing Her Street 0
Jan 10: Violent Crime Up in the Suburbs, Down in Big Cities 4
Jan 10: The Diminishing Returns of Highway Building 0
Jan 09: Bob McDonnell: Everyone Should Pay For Virginia’s Roads (Except Drivers) 5
Jan 09: $450 Billion in Federal Subsidies Tilt U.S. Real Estate Market Toward Sprawl 21
Jan 09: The Practical Genius of Old American Main Streets 0
Jan 08: What Is the Anti-Density Crowd Really Afraid Of? 0
Jan 07: FTA Opens the Door For More Transit Expansions to Receive Federal Funding 4
Jan 07: Business Leaders Help Win Protected Bike Lanes in Portland 0
Jan 04: Here It Is: The Ultimate Absurdity in American Transportation 6
Jan 04: Streets Filled With Driverless Cars: A Perpetual Fantasy? 0
Jan 03: Getting Bus Rapid Transit Right — Indianapolis Looks for Examples 0
Jan 02: Avis Acquires Zipcar: What Are the Implications? 20
Jan 02: Transit Tax Benefit Equalized With Parking Benefit in Fiscal Cliff Deal 8
Jan 02: Sneak Preview: 2013 in Transit 0
2012
Dec 20: GM Bailout Will Cost Taxpayers as Much as $12 Billion 10
Dec 20: Lebron James, Bike Commuter 0
Dec 19: Author Jeff Speck on Walkability and the One Mistake That Can Wreck a City 9
Dec 19: Breaking: Sprawl Just as Reliant on “Big Government” as Smart Growth 0
Dec 14: DC Residents: Parking Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough 0
Dec 13: Finally Getting Serious About Measuring How Much People Walk and Bike 14
Dec 13: How a Group of Young Bike Advocates Are Reshaping Reno 0
Dec 12: Here They Are: The Best and Worst American Transportation Projects 18
Dec 12: Number of Protected Bike Lanes in America Nearly Doubled in 2012 0
Dec 11: What’s Behind the Rise in Cyclist and Pedestrian Deaths? 0
Dec 10: Shifting Political Winds Begin, at Last, to Favor Transit in Detroit 4
Dec 10: Want to End the Scourge of Surface Parking? Tax Land, Not Buildings 0
Dec 07: Smaller Cities Taking on Big Transit Projects 4
Dec 07: Sidewalk Bandits Make Off With the Pedestrian Right-of-Way 0
Dec 06: Will Cities Hold on to Younger Residents as They Have Children? 36
Dec 06: Why California’s Two-Thirds Local Ballot Threshold May Be Worth Keeping 0
Dec 05: Study: Electric Cars Not So Green Unless Powered by Renewables 12
Dec 05: Chicago Bike Lane Envy Sweeps the Nation 0
Dec 04: Obama Takes Another Swing at $50 Billion in Infrastructure Spending 4
Dec 04: NC Head: Transit “Essential to Our Economic Success” 0
Dec 03: Two-Way Protected Bike Lane Coming to the Heart of Downtown Chicago 0
Nov 30: British National Health Experts: Cycling Safer Than Couch Sitting 1
Nov 30: Patty Murray as Senate Budget Chief: What It Means for Transportation 2
Nov 30: Seven Ways to Make Bike-share More Accessible 0
Nov 29: Without Bypassing Chokepoints, BRT Risks Becoming “Symbolic Transit” 0
Nov 28: Detroiters Serenade Lawmakers to Put Unified Transit System Over the Top 0
Nov 28: Wisconsin Highway Bonanza: Scott Walker Unfazed by Lack of Funds 0
Nov 27: Researchers Find Link Between Autism and Traffic Pollution 12
Nov 27: Can Chicago Build a Bike-Share System That Works for Everyone? 0
Nov 26: Rob Ford’s Greatest Hits 11
Nov 26: St. Louis Boy Killed by Drunk Driver, Put in Harm’s Way by Design 0
Nov 21: As Highway and Air Travel Slump, Intercity Train Trips Increase 24
Nov 21: Bike-Powered Disaster Response Gets National Spotlight 0
Nov 20: Funding Uncertainty Plagues Highways, But They Still Get Built 0
Nov 19: Which States Are Breaking Free From Oil Dependence? NRDC Ranks All 50 3
Nov 19: School District Threatens Rockville Mom for Putting Her Child on City Bus 0
Nov 16: One for the Dustbin: The 85th Percentile Rule in Traffic Engineering 0
Nov 15: Freakonomics Hucksters: “Save the Earth, Drive Your Car” 41
Nov 15: Will Philadelphia’s City Council Screw the Pooch on Parking Reform? 0
Nov 14: Massachusetts’ Smart Plan to Promote Housing That Works for Young People 7
Nov 14: New Balance to Build Train Station as Part of Its Boston Headquarters 0
Nov 13: Shoup: Free Parking to Blame for California’s Solo Car Commuting Habit 5
Nov 13: As Baby Boomers Age, They Take Their Foot Off the Gas 1
Nov 13: Photos: Toronto Protesters Meet Bike Lane Removal Crews Head On 0
Nov 12: Enticing Car-Lite Households to Take the Next Step 0
Nov 09: In Philly, Housing in Walkable Places Held Up Better Than Suburban Housing 0
Nov 09: A New Governor for Washington, a New Day for Transit in Seattle? 0
Nov 08: Suburban Voters Wisely Reject Proposals to Withdraw from Regional Transit 8
Nov 08: Let’s Agree: Treating Cities as a Wedge Issue Is Senseless 0
Nov 07: World’s Most Entitled Driver Sentenced to Wear “Idiot” Sign 14
Nov 07: Mixed Bag for Closely-Watched Local Transit Races 0
Nov 07: Why Do Sidewalks Predict Whom We’ll Vote For? 0
Nov 06: How Ohio’s Early Voting Rules Discriminate Against City Dwellers 0
Nov 05: Phoenix Trying to Get a Handle on Pedestrian Deaths 7
Nov 05: A Changing Marin County Is Still Building Yesterday’s Housing 0
Nov 02: How to Win a Local Campaign: Anchorage Shows the Way 0
Nov 01: The Connection That Can’t Be Ignored: Sandy and Climate Change 13
Nov 01: Transit in the NYC Region, After the Storm: Rebuild It Better 0
Oct 31: Is This the Beginning of the End of Climate Silence? 0
Oct 29: As Another Major Storm Looms, Will Candidates Keep Ignoring Climate? 0
Oct 25: AAA Revives Offensive Against Safer D.C. Streets 0
Oct 24: Remembering When Our Streets Belonged to Everyone 0
Oct 23: Amtrak Hits a Train Speed Milestone in the Midwest 0
Oct 22: Study: Protected Bike Lanes Reduce Injury Risk Up to 90 Percent 15
Oct 22: Atlanta Picking Up the Tab for New Stadium as Transit Funding Stagnates 0
Oct 19: Virginia DOT Using Flawed Data to Justify Charlottesville Bypass 0
Oct 18: Raleigh’s Smart Plan to Grow Inward 6
Oct 18: Will This Boost Transit? Maryland Promotes Driving on $2.5 Billion Tollway 0
Oct 16: When Did Cities Become Politically Unmentionable? 0
Oct 15: Federal Housing Administration Clears Way for More Walkable Development 3
Oct 15: Boston’s Over-the-Top “Bike Safety” Campaign 0
Oct 12: The National Review’s Imaginary Conspiracy Against Ohio Suburbs 6
Oct 12: When Will We See a Department of Transportation and Land Use? 0
Oct 11: Kansas City’s Squabble-Proof Streetcar Plan 8
Oct 11: The Washington Nationals: Winning at Sustainable Transportation? 0
Oct 10: The Motor City’s Fresh Take on the Urban Bikeway 1
Oct 10: How to Expand Your Transit Network Without Expanding Its Budget 0
Oct 09: Florida and Kansas Reverse Course on Spurned Trails Funding 0
Oct 05: Turning Around the Transportation Culture at a School 0
Oct 04: The Coming Infrastructure Crisis in Texas 4
Oct 04: Car-Oriented Drug Stores: Scourge of the Urban Corner 0
Oct 03: Why Isn’t Bike-Share Reaching More Low-Income People? 22
Oct 03: Private Bus Routes and Silicon Valley’s Outmoded Office Model 0
Oct 02: Greater Atlanta Continues to Treat Walking Like a Crime 8
Oct 02: Is Your Region a “Complete Community”? 0
Oct 01: How Streets Designed for Speed Led to the Death of Seventh Grade Girl 0
Sep 28: Should Doctors Play a Role in Determining Who’s Fit to Drive? 10
Sep 28: The Tricky Politics of Introducing a Streetcar to a City 0
Sep 27: Louisville Doubles Down on Disruptive Downtown Highway 4
Sep 27: An Ohio Sprawl Leader Begins to Recognize Its Mistakes 0
Sep 26: Census Shows Slight Decline in Solo Car Commuting 3
Sep 26: Connecticut Towns Nix Highway for Greenway 0
Sep 25: Slate Examines the Irrational Biases That Underlie Cyclist Hatred 0
Sep 24: How NOT to Fix Your Economy: Prevent People From Getting to Jobs 1
Sep 24: Is It Time for Interbike to Dump Las Vegas? 0
Sep 21: Park(ing) Day Around the U.S. 3
Sep 21: Police Bias in Car-Bike Collisions? Los Altos, CA May Take the Cake 0
Sep 20: Housing Market Collapse Leaves Detroit Exurbs Underwater 1
Sep 20: League of American Bicyclists Introduces “Diamond” Bike-Friendly Status 0
Sep 19: Planning a Streetcar? Better Get Your Zoning Right 0
Sep 18: Will MAP-21 Require Thousands More Dangerous Stroads? 7
Sep 18: Orlando Looks to Halve Pedestrian Deaths 0
Sep 17: Study: 10% More Smart Growth = 20% Less Driving 12
Sep 17: Fighting (Imaginary) Traffic in Downtown Kansas City 0
Sep 14: Mitt Romney’s Other Running Mate: The Fossil Fuel Industry 0
Sep 14: Brookings: Revive State Infrastructure Banks to Stretch Transpo Dollars 2
Sep 14: Wisconsin DOT “Flagrantly Ignored” Federal Civil Rights Requirements 0
Sep 13: Highway Safety for Sale in Texas 10
Sep 13: House GOP Wants Amtrak Out of the Commuter Rail Business 3
Sep 13: Making Neighborhood Streets “Skinny” and Safe 0
Sep 12: China Racing Past Competitors to Expand City Subways 0
Sep 11: Georgia Prosecutor Continues Case Against Raquel Nelson 19
Sep 11: Almost Every State Chooses to Retain Recreational Trails Funding 0
Sep 10: FHWA Offers a Guide for American Cities and Towns Considering Bike-Share 3
Sep 10: Bike-Share and Bike Lanes: The Chicken and Egg Debate 0
Sep 07: AASHTO: America’s Best Transportation Projects Are All Highways 18
Sep 07: Mexico City Bike-Share Goes Big 0
Sep 06: Chicago Unveils Its Ambitious Pedestrian Safety Plan 7
Sep 06: One Man’s Push to Require Bike Licenses in Oregon 0
Sep 05: What If We Supplied Hamburgers the Same Way We Supply Roads? 0
Sep 04: U.S. DOT: Wisconsin DOT in Violation of Civil Rights Act 1
Sep 04: UPDATED: Cloaking an Anti-Cycling Proposal in Bike-Friendly Language 0
Aug 31: The Big Deception in Mitt Romney’s Global Warming Brush-Off 0
Aug 30: No More Suburban Office Parks for Downtown Cincinnati 0
Aug 29: Detroit’s Choice: Beautiful Historic Buildings or More Parking 7
Aug 29: Why Are American Infrastructure Projects So Expensive? 0
Aug 28: Visualizing the Enormous Squandered Potential in a Parking Lot 0
Aug 27: The Hidden Benefits of Schlepping Groceries 0
Aug 24: A View of the Suburban Ghost Towns Surrounding Charlotte 0
Aug 23: How Grid Systems Promote Urbanism and Winding Streets Undermine It 0
Aug 22: From “Devil Wagons” to Domination in Two Generations 0
Aug 21: Portland’s Parking-Free Apartment Boom 4
Aug 21: Cleveland: Progressing on Bike Policy, Still Falling Behind? 0
Aug 20: As State DOTs Receive Surprise $, Risk and Opportunity for Safe Streets 0
Aug 17: WisDOT Faces Civil Rights Suit Over $1.7 Billion “Zoo Interchange” 11
Aug 17: Walking Rates in America Improve, Still Pitiful 0
Aug 16: What’s It Like to Bike to Work on Separated Lanes? “Awesome.” 0
Aug 15: Syncing Traffic Lights No Sure-Fire Way to Reduce Emissions 0
Aug 14: Billionaire Oil Driller Serving as Romney Energy Advisor 8
Aug 14: WaPo Blames “Distracted Walking” for Unexplained Rise in Deaths 0
Aug 13: On Transport, Romney-Ryan Ticket Presents Extreme Contrast to Obama 0
Aug 06: Atlanta Beltline Staff: “We Still Have a Project to Build” 1
Aug 03: The Best Amateur Music Videos in Support of Active Transportation 2
Aug 03: High Economic Stakes for Pittsburgh as Transit Doomsday Looms 0
Aug 02: Metro Atlanta’s Sales Tax “Savings” Will Come at a High Price 0
Aug 01: Atlanta’s Bad Traffic Situation Is About to Get Worse 19
Aug 01: Oklahoma City Council Fends Off Highway-Like Highway Replacement 5
Aug 01: Montgomery County Legalizes Two-Family Houses (But Not Really) 0
Jul 31: Will Atlanta’s Transpo Referendum Overcome Early Voting Deficit? 5
Jul 31: Portland to Rewrite Car-Centric Street Engineering Standard 0
Jul 31: Portland to Rewrite Car-Centric Street Engineering Standard 0
Jul 30: The Politics of the I-35 Bridge Catastrophe: Not Just Minnesota’s Problem 0
Jul 27: Matching National Trend, Portland, Maine Sees Decline in Car Ownership 0
Jul 26: Study: Access to Light Rail Can Reduce Obesity Risk — If You Use It 3
Jul 26: Coming to a Walkable Place Near You: More Efficient Housing 0
Jul 25: When Livability Projects Meet Eisenhower-Era Design Standards [Updated] 3
Jul 25: Maybe What We Need Is Ghost Cars 0
Jul 24: A Big Week for Bicycling in Fort Worth 0
Jul 23: The Inherent Shallowness of the Rail vs. Bus Debate 0
Jul 20: Transportation Investments and America’s Quality-of-Life Gap 10
Jul 20: Developer of NJ Mega-Mall-Amusement-Park Should Pay for Transit Service 0
Jul 19: New Jersey’s Urban Centers Are Bouncing Back 0
Jul 19: Sprawl and America’s Awful, Awful Drought 0
Jul 18: GOP Selects Site Next to TIGER-Funded Greenway for RNC Convention 9
Jul 18: When “Vulnerable User” Laws Go Unenforced 0
Jul 17: How Does Your State Stack Up on Prioritizing Transit and Street Safety? 4
Jul 17: Holding Out for a More Cost-Effective Plan to Speed Northeast Rail 0
Jul 16: Atlanta’s Big Moment 7
Jul 16: Skinny Storefronts, a Must for Walkability 0
Jul 13: In Virginia, Imagining a Less Disruptive Alternative to a Highway 0
Jul 12: Peeking Behind the Curtain of Big Oil-Funded Agenda 21 Conspiracy Mongers 53
Jul 12: Bullet Train Bombshell: CAHSR Spurned Cost-Cutting Offer From the French 0
Jul 11: Does Transit Really Have a White People Problem? 0
Jul 10: Lower Taxes, Less Smog: The Carbon Tax’s Wild Success in British Columbia 5
Jul 10: A Victory for CA High-Speed Rail, But Still a Long Fight Ahead 0
Jul 09: DC Metro’s Hyper-Vigilance Following Crash Overlooks One Major Threat 0
Jul 06: Report: Traffic Studies Systematically Overstate Benefits of Road Projects 7
Jul 06: Yesterday’s Car Subsidies Are Still Shaping Today’s Landscape 0
Jul 05: On Individualism, Being American and Striving for Sustainability 0
Jul 03: How Much Will New Federal Safety Mandates Cost Transit Agencies? 0
Jul 02: Ohio Rep’s Rider Would Block Cincinnati Streetcar From Receiving Funds 8
Jul 02: The Tea Party’s Selective Disdain for Transportation Subsidies 0
Jun 29: Advocates: Transpo Bill Ignores Trends, Shrinks From 21st Century Challenges 4
Jun 29: Which States Do the Most (and the Least) to Support Biking and Walking? 0
Jun 28: Rails-to-Trails: Final Transpo Bill “Bad News for America” 0
Jun 27: Bike Delivery Businesses Excluded From Clean Air Freight Grant in Portland 0
Jun 25: “Indiana’s Big Dig” Raises Bar on Absurdly Wasteful Highway Boondoggles 1
Jun 25: Engineer: “Award-Winning” PA Highway Ramps Nothing to Be Proud Of 0
Jun 22: On Portland’s East Side, a Sea of Empty Parking and a Plan to Change It 0
Jun 21: Civil Rights Groups Rally Against Threat to Environmental Review 0
Jun 21: Explaining the Psychological Appeal of Rail Over Buses 27
Jun 21: In Metro Portland, Car Collisions More Costly Than Congestion 0
Jun 20: Capital Bikeshare Subscribers Save $891 a Year 0
Jun 19: Is Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Pulling a Scott Walker? 0
Jun 18: The Upside of iPhones Without Google Transit Directions 19
Jun 18: What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet’s Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer 0
Jun 15: Milwaukee Streetcar’s Trump Card Over Walker: A 1990s Civil Rights Case 1
Jun 15: Miami Travel Blog Warns Pedestrians, “We’re Not Stopping for You” 27
Jun 15: Will Dallas Climb Out of the Bike-Friendly Cellar? 0
Jun 14: California APA Pooh Poohs Statewide Parking Reform Efforts 0
Jun 13: Apple Drops Transit Directions From Mobile Devices 31
Jun 13: Ta-da! Money for Highways Appears Out of Nowhere in Texas 0
Jun 12: Want to Increase Cycling? Sharrows Won’t Cut It 0
Jun 11: Even Most Republicans Don’t Want to Cut Spending on Transpo 0
Jun 08: Toxic Pre-Recession Bank Deals Haunt Struggling Transit Agencies 8
Jun 08: The Fort Worth Chamber’s Hilariously Terrible Vision for the Future 0
Jun 07: House GOP Wastes Time With Bogus Gas Tax Debate 2
Jun 07: Meet the Bike Entrepreneurs Helping to Rebuild Detroit’s Economy 0
Jun 06: $10,000 Extra? The Transportation Tab for Sprawling ‘Hoods in 20 Metros 1
Jun 06: Have Toronto’s Bike Lane Butchers Found Another Target? 0
Jun 05: 10 Years Later: How Cincy Healed Its Central City — and Its Reputation 0
Jun 04: Cleveland: Building Public Support With Pop-up Cycling Infrastructure 0
Jun 01: Will Greater Cleveland Squander Its Chance to Be Competitive Again? 5
Jun 01: Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory: Completely Absurd, Frighteningly Effective 0
May 31: In American Courts, Drivers Still Innocent After Proven Guilty 0
May 30: Seattle Pol Falls Into the “Sustainability Gap” 0
May 29: Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and the New Wave of Anti-Urban Politics 0
May 25: Making Rural Transit Work 3
May 25: As Tuition Prices Rise, Fresno State Spends $4 Million on Parking 0
May 24: Dallas Mayor Reconsiders Support for Downtown Highway Proposal 0
May 23: Bike Registration Laws: A License to Profile? 0
May 22: Analysts: Traffic Congestion Down 30 Percent Last Year 0
May 22: When Outdated Environmental Laws Prevent Sustainable Development 0
May 21: Portland Back on Top in Bicycling Magazine’s City Rankings 4
May 21: How Much Will $6 Billion Improve Access to Jobs in Metro Atlanta? 0
May 18: Arizona DOT Study: Compact, Mixed-Use Development Leads to Less Traffic 14
May 18: The Urban Premium: Walk Score Linked to Housing Prices 0
May 17: Ladyblogs’ Bully-Free Zone Doesn’t Apply to Cyclists 0
May 16: Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars 35
May 16: How Baton Rouge Brought Its Transit System Back from the Brink 0
May 15: Study Links Long Commutes to a Host of Health Maladies 1
May 15: DC: Getting Urban Sports Arena Development Right 0
May 14: Chicago Aims for Zero Traffic Deaths by 2022 9
May 14: Smart Growth Opponents Run Against Portland’s Pro-Urbanism Policies 0
May 11: How Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood Embraced Bike Lanes 0
May 10: Will Dallas Buckle Under the Weight of So Much Asphalt? 0
May 09: Pittsburgh Faces a Transit Doomsday 0
May 08: Buy America’s Shocking Pricetag 0
May 07: The Reason Foundation’s Comically Flawed Research on LA Rail 0
May 04: Will DC’s New Parking Czar Take Parking Reform to the Next Level? 0
May 03: A Freeway Revolt Is Brewing in Dallas 0
May 02: National Bike Challenge Hopes to Log 10 Million Miles During Bike Month 0
May 02: Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: Media Portrayals of the Car-Free 0
May 01: Atlanta Transpo Referendum Draws an Unlikely Opponent in Local Sierra Club 12
May 01: So You Have a Complete Streets Policy. Now What? 0
Apr 30: Detroit Gets Back to Its Pre-Motor City Roots With Bike Manufacturing 0
Apr 27: Brookings: Suburban-Style Zoning Linked to Educational Inequality 9
Apr 27: San Diego Police: Unless the Cyclist Is Killed, Top Penalty Is a Ticket 0
Apr 26: The Suburbanization of St. Louis Isn’t Helping St. Louis 0
Apr 25: Debunking NIMBY Math on California HSR 0
Apr 24: Study: Low-Income Neighborhoods Much More Likely to Have Dangerous Roads 4
Apr 24: New York City to Rein in Megabus, Other Inter-City Bus Services 0
Apr 23: Hit-and-Run Crashes the Norm in Chicago Pedestrian Deaths 0
Apr 20: Visionary Transportation Bureaucrats, Part 5: Shailen Bhatt and Kirk Steudle 0
Apr 20: Capital Bikeshare Nearly Operationally Profitable 2
Apr 20: Cities With the Most Highway Miles: a “Who’s Who” of Decay 0
Apr 19: Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 4: Jay Primus and Rina Cutler 11
Apr 19: Citing Budget Constraints, Portland to Invest More in Biking, Not Driving 0
Apr 18: Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 3: Joe Calabrese and Ryan Gravel 3
Apr 18: Dallas City Council Member: Adding Highway Lanes Is Pointless 0
Apr 17: Raquel Nelson Back in Court, With High Profile Lawyer at Her Defense 2
Apr 17: Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 2: Keith Parker and Mike McKeever 2
Apr 17: A TOD Impostor in Fresno 0
Apr 16: 11 Transportation Officials Who Are Changing the Game 3
Apr 16: Two Ways to Sustain Wisconsin’s Highway Racket: Tolls or Crushing Debt 0
Apr 13: Tucson Breaks Ground on Streetcar, Investment Already Following 6
Apr 13: Christie, Walker, Kasich, and Scott All Deceived the Public to Kill Rail 8
Apr 13: Study: In Baltimore, One in Six Drivers Pass Cyclists Illegally 0
Apr 12: What’s Wrong With a Car-Centric System? New Video Explains It All 0
Apr 11: The Greenwashing of Sprawl 13
Apr 11: Study Finds Car-Centric Neighborhoods Strongly Tied to Childhood Obesity 0
Apr 10: The Seattle Times: For Free Markets, Unless They Mean Less Parking 0
Apr 09: Video: In Car-Bike Hit-and-Run, “Heroic” Bus Driver Saves the Day 18
Apr 06: Oregon DOT Nixes “Highways Division” for “Multi-Modal” System 0
Apr 05: U.S. PIRG Report: Young Americans Dump Cars for Bikes, Buses 27
Apr 05: Pennsylvania Enacts 4-Foot Passing Law, Nabs Violator on First Day 0
Apr 04: Bikes Belong Selects Six Cities to Fast Track Protected Bike Lanes 19
Apr 04: More Cycling: Good for Everyone — Not Just Cyclists 0
Apr 03: Occupy Wall Street’s Poorly Targeted Transit Action 0
Apr 02: Seattle Restaurants See More Revenue After Parking Rates Increase 7
Apr 02: Is Rahm Emanuel’s $7 Billion Infrastructure Plan Replicable? 0
Mar 30: Rejection of Senate Transpo Bill Opens Rift Between GOP, Business Groups 1
Mar 30: Providence Station Renovation Plans Fail to Keep Up With the Times 0
Mar 29: Advocates Defend New Haven’s “Downtown Crossing” Highway Removal Plan 6
Mar 29: Seattleites Predict A-Park-alypse If Parking Minimums Are Lifted 0
Mar 28: Pressure Mounts on House to Take Up Senate Bill. Does the House Care? 2
Mar 28: Wisconsin Highway Binge Continues Under “$mall Government” Walker 0
Mar 27: Chicago’s Parking Requirements Are an Out-of-Date Relic 0
Mar 26: Instead of Reclaiming a Despised Highway, New Haven Plans a Close Replica 4
Mar 26: Capital Bikeshare Both Replaces and Promotes Transit Trips 0
Mar 23: New WHO Tool Calculates the Health Savings of Bike/Ped Infrastructure 5
Mar 23: The Hunt for the Worst Bike Lane in the Midwest 0
Mar 22: Why Is Seattle’s Sound Transit Building a 500-Space Parking Garage? 0
Mar 21: Raise Fees for Parking, Not Riding 0
Mar 20: Race to the Bottom: The Sad State of Public Discourse on Gas Prices 0
Mar 19: What the Rest of the Country Can Learn from Houston’s Damn-Low Rents 0
Mar 16: Feeding the Beast: The Backdoor Ways Transit Subsidizes Roads 0
Mar 15: The Other Guilty Party in a Traffic Crash: Road Designers 0
Mar 14: HR 7 Insanity: Air Pollution Funds Would Pay for Highway Expansion 0
Mar 13: Apple to Build Sprawl-Tastic Corporate Headquarters in Suburbs 0
Mar 12: All Aboard for a Second-Rate Passenger Rail Experience 0
Mar 09: Bad Transit Condemns Much of Ohio’s Growing Urban Poor to Dependency 2
Mar 09: Advocates: Private Transit Giant Lobbied House to Weaken Public Transit 11
Mar 09: Women in Transit: Still Swimming Upstream 0
Mar 08: The Bicycle in Art: A Universal Symbol of Progress 0
Mar 07: Driving’s Long Decline in Oregon 0
Mar 06: Faster Roads Gobble Up More Real Estate 7
Mar 06: The Trouble With RoboCars: “You Can’t Optimize People So Easily” 0
Mar 05: As the Economy Grows and Adds Jobs, Americans Keep Driving Less 4
Mar 05: From Manhattan to Texas, How Many People Can Live in Cities? 0
Mar 02: St. Louis Takes the First Step Toward Highway-cide 0
Feb 24: Pop-Up Urbanism: The Origins of a Movement 0
Feb 23: Report: Pollution From U.S. Parking Spaces Costs Up to $20 Billion Per Year 0
Feb 23: Chicago Building a More Bus-Friendly Central City 0
Feb 22: Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the House Transpo Bill 0
Feb 21: Seattle Cyclists Find Safety in Numbers 0
Feb 17: Reminder: States Already Control Transpo $, and They Waste Billions 0
Feb 16: Flashback: Ronald Reagan Touts Gas Tax Hike, Transit Funding as Job Creators 7
Feb 16: H.R. 7: Is John Boehner Serious? 0
Feb 15: Blumenauer: Don’t Let American Streets Remain Unsafe Routes to School 3
Feb 15: In NYC & Florida, Asking Police to Step Up for Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety 0
Feb 14: Cardin-Cochran Amendment Would Boost Local Control of Bike-Ped Funding 0
Feb 14: House Transpo Bill Turns Communities Into Collateral Damage 0
Feb 13: Rural Lawmakers Try to Stall a Higher Gas Tax in Maryland 0
Feb 10: Three Chicagoland Republicans Defect on House Transpo Bill 2
Feb 10: Detroit Transit Woes a Preview of American Transit Under House GOP 0
Feb 09: A Day of Action to Stop the Attack on Transit, Biking, and Walking 0
Feb 08: House Transportation Bill Too Extreme for Some Republicans 5
Feb 08: Bikes Belong to Help Six Cities Build Protected Bikeways 8
Feb 08: Speeding Enforcement Cameras Work, and They’re Coming to Chicago 0
Feb 07: The Mile-High City Gets Back to Its Rail Roots 0
Feb 06: 12 Freeways to Watch (‘Cause They Might Be Gone Soon) 9
Feb 06: Ready to Fight? The House GOP Bill Leaves Little Choice 0
Feb 03: Study Links Quality Urbanism to Happiness :) 0
Feb 02: Even More Reasons to Abhor the House Transportation Bill 0
Feb 01: Now Open for Bids: The Fourth Round of TIGER Grants 2
Feb 01: Austin’s Urban Success Threatens Its Iconic Music Venues 0
Jan 31: Even Some Republicans Don’t Like the House GOP’s Oil Drilling Plan 0
Jan 30: Freight Rail Industry Planning Record Investment in 2012 0
Jan 30: Kickstarting a “Narrow Streets” Community in Rural Maine 0
Jan 27: Anti-Sprawl Doctor to Host PBS Series on Urban Design and Public Health 5
Jan 27: Partisan Labor Fight Threatens Indianapolis’s Game-Changing Transit Vision 0
Jan 26: Study: Bicycling Generates $365 Million in Economic Activity in Iowa 2
Jan 26: College Presidents Kill Baltimore Bike Lane 0
Jan 25: SOTU: Is Obama Retreating on Infrastructure? 0
Jan 24: Mixed-Use Development Delivers Huge Public Returns Compared to Sprawl 5
Jan 24: Today in Bad Ideas: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Subway to Suburbia 0
Jan 23: Bike Ban Averted in Albuquerque, City Moves to Add Bike Lanes Instead 5
Jan 23: How the “Right” to Cheap Parking Makes Streets Less Equitable 0
Jan 20: People Who Live Near Shopping Streets Three Times More Likely to Walk 0
Jan 19: Houston’s “Pedestrian Pete” Has a Bone to Pick 0
Jan 19: SC DOT Responds to Cyclist Death By Considering Bike Ban 0
Jan 18: Business Community Beats Back Anti-Transit Politics in Suburban Detroit 2
Jan 18: Getting Around Near and Far — The Supercharged Bike-Sharing Card 0
Jan 17: Maps Show Striking Link Between Car Commuting and Obesity 17
Jan 17: A Safety Fail From the Federal Railroad Administration 0
Jan 13: In Maryland, Marginalizing Pedestrians Under the Guise of Safety 0
Jan 12: Fracking to Take a Heavy Toll on Roads 0
Jan 11: Celebu-Economist: Drunk Driving Safer Than “Drunk Walking” 0
Jan 10: The Design Tragedies That Pass for Road “Improvements” 0
Jan 09: Will a Shorter Light Rail Line Work for Detroit? 0
Jan 05: Midwest Rail Lives! Work Underway in Four States 4
Jan 05: One Anti-Rail Congress Is No Reason to Delay California HSR 0
Jan 04: Study: The Key to a Healthy Region Is a Strong Central City 0
Jan 03: Coming to a City Near You in 2012 — New Transit Projects Underway 0
2011
Dec 22: PlanMaryland: A Model for State-Level Smart Growth Planning 3
Dec 22: Seattle Police Mock “Dumb F***” Jogger Hit by Semi Truck 0
Dec 21: A Detroit Suburb’s Rejection of Transit Funds Outrages Local Businesspeople 2
Dec 21: Health Benefits of Ciclovia Events Outweigh Costs 0
Dec 20: Biking and Walking Score Big in TIGER III 4
Dec 20: The Amazing Disappearing State Gas Tax 0
Dec 19: Will Urban Revitalization Leave Some Cities Behind? 0
Dec 16: Ohio DOT Warns Kids, Via Hilarious Optimus Prime Rap: Don’t Speed (?!?) 1
Dec 16: New Plans Would Make Detroit the Nation’s Run-Away BRT Leader 3
Dec 16: The Silent YIMBY Majority, and Why They Lose 0
Dec 15: States Forfeit $10 Billion Annually Thanks to Outdated Gas Taxes 1
Dec 15: Early Data From SFPark: Drivers Still Flock to Blocks With Pricey Parking 0
Dec 14: Detroit Abandons Light Rail Dreams, Plans BRT Routes 4
Dec 14: The Cincinnati Streetcar: Triumphing Over an Anti-Transit Governor 0
Dec 13: No Accountability for State DOTs on Highway Projects 3
Dec 13: Bike Lane-less Dallas Inches Forward 0
Dec 12: Omaha Considering Pedicab Ban During College World Series 3
Dec 12: Brilliant Reader Comment: The Double Standard on Bike/Car Behavior 27
Dec 12: The Secret to a Healthy Life: A Daily, Half-Hour Walk 0
Dec 09: Ha! Cato’s O’Toole to Detroit: Don’t Repeat Portland and Denver’s “Mistakes” 17
Dec 09: A Tappan Zee Bridge Without Transit Is a Lousy Jobs Program 0
Dec 08: Ray LaHood Gives Go-Ahead to Portland’s Sprawl-Inducing Mega-Bridge 4
Dec 08: Are Cyclists “Elite Snobs”? It Depends on If They’re in Your Way 0
Dec 07: The Federal Government Wants to Bribe You to Drive to Work 0
Dec 06: Housing Bust Poster-Child Miami Invites More Sprawl 0
Dec 05: Arkansas Officials Surround State Capitol With Even More Parking 0
Dec 02: How to Make TOD Work in Metro Dallas: Plano Shows the Way 0
Dec 02: The Great Recession’s “Green Lining” 0
Dec 01: Oakland Cops Can’t Be Troubled With OWS Vehicular Assault 0
Nov 30: Epic Job Creation Fail: Paying Developers to Build Free Parking 0
Nov 29: Boston to Expand Hubway Bike-Share After Brilliant First Season 12
Nov 29: Light Rail Expansion Signals an Urbanizing Houston 0
Nov 28: Michigan Cities See Placemaking as the Way to a Brighter Future 2
Nov 28: Can America Afford Not to Bike More? 0
Nov 23: Ohio: A State DOT That Doesn’t Try to Hide Its Total Disregard for Bike-Ped 6
Nov 23: St. Louis County: We Don’t Build Bike Lanes Because No One Bikes 0
Nov 22: Bye Bye Curbs: Safer Streets in the UK Mix Cars and People 0
Nov 21: Good Transit Cities Pack Jobs Tightly Together 0
Nov 17: Greater Cleveland in Denial About Its Downfall: Sprawl 0
Nov 16: Cash-Strapped Wyoming DOT to Halt Highway Expansion. Will Others Follow? 9
Nov 16: The High Cost of Cheap Roads 0
Nov 15: TIGER III Requests Exceed Available Funding 27 to 1 4
Nov 15: More Evidence That Bike Facilities Are Good for Local Businesses 0
Nov 14: Quantified: The Price of Sprawl in Florida 8
Nov 14: In Massachusetts, Driving Drunk, Getting Caught, Walking Away Scot Free 0
Nov 11: Engineering Insanity on Display: The Diverging Diamond Interchange 2
Nov 11: Who Knew? Memphis on Track to Add 55 Miles of Bike Lanes in Just Two Years 5
Nov 11: Mexico City Activists Draw the Line With DIY Bike Lanes 0
Nov 10: Meet the Rick Perry Donor Who Runs Texas DOT 6
Nov 10: Want to Sell Voters on Transit? Keep It Simple 0
Nov 09: Raleigh-Durham Voters Give Go-Ahead to Light Rail Plans 0
Nov 08: The Hypocrisy of Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit” Campaign 14
Nov 08: Saving the Farm: The Fight to Keep Sprawl From Engulfing Rural America 0
Nov 07: Senate’s Draft Transpo Bill Ends Earmarks But Weakens Bike-Ped Programs 9
Nov 07: FRA Safety Regs Add Costs, Not Safety, to American Rail 0
Nov 04: Report: “Cash for Clunkers” Was a Lemon 0
Nov 03: Putting the Price of California HSR in Perspective 0
Nov 02: Texas Sprawl Builders Funneled Taxpayer $ to Highway That Enriched Them 9
Nov 02: Fifteen Is Serene: DC Considers 15 MPH Speed Limits 0
Nov 01: Is City Living the Secret to Happiness? 0
Oct 31: Trapped By Car Dependence: Stories From Commute-Battered Americans 43
Oct 31: AP: GOP Attacks on Transportation Enhancements Are “Tall Tales” 0
Oct 28: Memo to Rand Paul: Want Bridges in Better Shape? Invest in Cycling 0
Oct 27: GOP Gov Rick Snyder Has a Plan to Expand Michigan Transit — and Pay For It 3
Oct 27: The Power of Blogs and Social Media in Transportation Policy 0
Oct 26: The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists 0
Oct 25: Seattle Drivers Cause Most Crashes, But Seattle Cops Increasingly Cite Peds 0
Oct 20: FTA Distributes $1 Billion to Local Transit Agencies 0
Oct 20: Look Out Below: One in Nine Bridges Structurally Deficient, Reports T4A 0
Oct 19: Transportation Enhancements Program Beats Back Another Assault 1
Oct 19: The Scandalously High Cost of Shortchanging Transit 0
Oct 18: In South Carolina, a New Era of Justice for Cyclists? 0
Oct 17: The $125,000 Commute, Not as Uncommon as You’d Think 0
Oct 14: Cyclist Requests Summit With Jerry Brown After Gov Kills Safe Passing Bill 0
Oct 13: Carnahan and LaTourette Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Bolster Transit Service 0
Oct 13: Lacking Sidewalks, South Fresno Peds Cut Dirt Path Maze Through City 0
Oct 12: New GAO Report: All States are “Donees” When it Comes to Highways 1
Oct 12: New Jersey Residents: “More Smart Growth, Please” 0
Oct 11: What the Cycling Movement Can Learn from Occupy Wall Street 0
Oct 10: Sidewalks Alone Can’t Solve the Suburban Megaschools’ Walking Problem 0
Oct 07: Detroit Father Charged With Child Endangerment for Cycling With Sons 0
Oct 06: New Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart Growth 14
Oct 05: No Safe Option for Jersey Teens Killed on Railroad Tracks 0
Oct 04: Blaming the Victim: Specious Complaints About Cyclist Behavior 0
Oct 03: Aerotropolis: A New Model for Cities? 0
Sep 30: Critical Mass: Good for Cycling or Bad PR? 0
Sep 29: Backwards Priorities: Most Vulnerable Commuters Last to Be Considered 0
Sep 28: So Much for Austerity: Wisconsin Builds $25 Million Interchange in Cornfield 0
Sep 27: The Toothless Official Response to Air Quality Emergencies 0
Sep 26: Wait. What? Already? Cleveland Takes Step Backward on Complete Streets 0
Sep 23: Will Seattle’s “Carmageddon” Be as Anti-Climactic as LA’s? 0
Sep 21: Can the Feds Fix Detroit’s Uniquely Terrible Transit System? 5
Sep 21: One Year In, Capital Bikeshare Shatters Expectations 0
Sep 20: In Cleveland, A Slow Evolution Toward Sustainable Transportation 3
Sep 20: Should Public Transit Agencies Strive for Profitability? 0
Sep 19: Park(ing) Day Organizer Arrested in Miami 0
Sep 16: After Rash of Cyclist Deaths in Seattle, Grief Turns to Anger 0
Sep 15: The Incredible Shrinking Megastore: Retailers Think Outside the Big Box 11
Sep 15: Looking to Root Out Transportation Waste? Try Highways to Nowhere 0
Sep 13: Exxon: ‘One Mega-Highway, Please.’ Texas: ‘Coming Right Up’ 10
Sep 13: The Parking Deck vs. the Local Grocery 0
Sep 12: The Housing-Value Bonus for Rail Transit: 10, 20, Even 50 Percent 4
Sep 12: Ten Years After 9/11, American Oil Addiction Persists 0
Sep 09: Obama’s Jobs Speech Gets the Transportation Wonk Seal of Approval 0
Sep 08: Georgia DOT: Only People on Bikes Go Joyriding 0
Sep 07: Will New Haven Replace a Highway With Highway-Like Conditions? 0
Sep 06: The Indisputable Density Dividend 0
Aug 23: In Portland, Counterposing Demands for Equity and Innovation 0
Aug 22: Would Taxing Bikes Solve the Infrastructure Problem? 0
Aug 19: Brookings: 700,000 Carless Americans Stranded Outside Reach of Transit 7
Aug 19: What’s Troubling Megabus Haters? 0
Aug 18: T4A Building Album of USA’s Most Dangerous Streets — Send Your Photos! 0
Aug 17: Recession Forcing Cutbacks at Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Transit Agencies 0
Aug 17: How Seattle’s Deep-Bore Highway Opponents Lost Their Own Referendum 0
Aug 16: Maryland SHA: Guardrails are for Protecting Cars, Not People 0
Aug 15: Transit By Referendum: A New Way Forward for Atlanta and Seattle? 0
Aug 12: Michigan Puts Road Engineers on Bikes 12
Aug 12: Cyclists Take Black Hawk Bike-Ban Case to Colorado Supreme Court 0
Aug 11: San Antonio’s Sprawl-Busting Transit Chief 0
Aug 09: Chinese Communist Party Emulates America’s Socialist Parking Policies 0
Aug 08: Salt Lake City, Rising Transit Star 0
Aug 05: The Hidden Costs of Living Far From Work 0
Aug 04: Downtown Louisville Drowning in a Sea of Parking 0
Aug 03: From Sprawling New Jersey, a New Way Forward for State DOTs 4
Aug 03: Life Outside the Minivan: Car-Free Families Go Their Own Way 0
Aug 02: Indestructible Cincinnati Streetcar Faces Another Foe 0
Aug 01: Bike Shops: The Unsung Heroes of the Cycling Movement 0
Jul 29: Sprawl’s Greatest Hits: A History of Suburban Protest Ballads 25
Jul 29: Charlottesville, Virginia to Bypass Years of Careful Planning 0
Jul 28: For Raquel Nelson, Justice Still Elusive 0
Jul 27: $1,060: The Cost of Decrepit Infrastructure for Your Family Last Year 5
Jul 27: Car and Driver Magazine: “We Must Consider Alternative Transportation” 0
Jul 26: Federal Regulations at Odds with Demand for Urban Housing 2
Jul 26: Raquel Nelson Sentenced to Year of Probation, Granted Option of New Trial 9
Jul 26: Maryland Police: Fallen Cyclist Shouldn’t Have Been on the Road 0
Jul 25: Dallas Demonstrates How Not to Build a Modern Streetcar 0
Jul 22: On Gentrification and Cycling 0
Jul 21: Meet the Obscure Unelected Agencies Strangling Many U.S. Cities 8
Jul 21: Columbus’s Hide-the-Poor Transit Strategy Is, Predictably, Bad for Transit 0
Jul 20: The Public Interest and Private-Sector Involvement in High-Speed Rail 4
Jul 20: Mixed Messages: Parking Requirements at Bars 0
Jul 19: St. Louis, 2008: Another “Carmageddon” That Wasn’t 0
Jul 18: Why Carmageddon (and the Wolfpack Victory) Matters 0
Jul 15: Don’t Count High Speed Rail Out Yet 0
Jul 14: Federal Government Offers a Helping Hand to Six Struggling Cities 0
Jul 14: Federal Government, Despite Progress, Still Acting as an Agent of Sprawl 0
Jul 13: Coincidence? Most Expensive Cities for Parking All Suspiciously Awesome 0
Jul 12: The Exquisite Irony of the House GOP Transpo Bill Cover 0
Jul 11: An Unsettling Look at the Early Marketing of the Two-Car Household 0
Jul 08: Has America Passed Peak Car Use, or Is It Just a Cyclical Decline? 6
Jul 08: Mica’s Transpo Bill Would Spell Disaster for Transit 0
Jul 07: The Motor City’s Burgeoning Cycling Scene 0
Jul 06: DC’s Car-Sharing Fee: A Case Study in Bad Parking Policy 0
Jul 05: In a Growth-Oriented System, Youngstown, Ohio Struggles to Shrink 7
Jul 05: The Specious Threat of Spillover Parking 0
Jul 01: The Social Benefits of Cycling Identified, Enumerated and Imitated 0
Jun 30: Compromise Over Detroit Light Rail Gets Thumbs Up from Advocates 0
Jun 30: Detroit’s Sprawl King: Transit Expansion Plan Would Be a “Job Killer” 0
Jun 29: The Fiction of the Persecuted European Motorist 0
Jun 28: In the Rust Belt, Protecting Pedestrians is a Two-Way Street 0
Jun 28: Coming to a College Campus Near You: More Learning, Less Parking 0
Jun 27: The Persistence of Job Sprawl in Smaller Cities 0
Jun 24: Rob Ford’s Toronto: Moving Backwards 0
Jun 23: Chicago Experimenting With the “Pedestrian Scramble” 0
Jun 22: Cycling: What’s Holding Women Back? 0
Jun 21: Bike-Ped Defunding Proposal Sparks Mutiny in Mica’s Home District 7
Jun 21: Streets Built For Bikes and Pedestrians Also Yield More Jobs 0
Jun 20: Too Many Transfers, Too Much Parking, Not Enough Multi-Modalism 0
Jun 17: Syracuse Looks to Highway Removal to Revive Downtown Economy 20
Jun 17: Private Investors Make Ultimatum to Dictate Detroit Rail Design 0
Jun 16: Poll: Republicans Support Transpo Policies to Avert Climate Change, Too 9
Jun 16: Koch-Funded “Scholar” O’Toole: Seniors Love Car Dependence 0
Jun 15: Fix-It-First Bill Introduced in Senate 0
Jun 15: Transit’s Identity Crisis: Social Service or Economic Engine? 0
Jun 14: Security Measures for Buses and Trains? They Could Make Us Less Safe 0
Jun 13: Which Comes First: Families Staying in the City, or Better Urban Schools? 0
Jun 10: “Right-Sizing” Detroit Should Start With Its Sprawling Suburbs 0
Jun 09: Leapfrog Development Rears Its Ugly Head Outside of Fresno 0
Jun 08: Look Out Portland, New York, Minneapolis: Here Comes Chicago 0
Jun 07: India’s Parking Policies Lead Down the Road to Car-Choked Cities 0
Jun 06: Missouri, Welcome to the Era of the Broke State DOT 5
Jun 06: A Good Transit Plan Meets a Shaky Financial Commitment in Indianapolis 0
Jun 03: Building a Groundswell for Safer Streets in the Deep South 0
Jun 02: Trading Parking Spaces for Park Space 0
Jun 01: Existing Roads Slide Into Decrepitude as States Splurge on Highway Expansion 1
Jun 01: Suburban Office Parks Are Losing Their Beige-Tinted Shimmer 0
May 31: The Northeast Corridor: To Privatize or Not to Privatize? 0
May 27: City Councilman Greets Philly’s Bike Progress With Anti-Bike Legislation 0
May 26: How Gas-Dependent Is Your State? 2
May 26: With Help From a Republican Governor, Michigan Moves Toward Livability 1
May 26: America’s Waning Commitment to Transportation Funding 0
May 25: Questionable Highway Projects Escape Budget Scrutiny in Wisconsin 7
May 25: Columbus Sprawls Through Malls 0
May 23: Detroit Media Mogul: Beware Transport Subsidies (Except for Cars) 0
May 13: “Development-Oriented Transit”: Lessons From Hong Kong 0
May 12: Senate Finalizing Transpo Bill — It’s Up to Boxer to Preserve Bike/Ped Funding 1
May 12: Job Sprawl and the Importance of Transit to Suburban Employment Centers 0
May 11: The Problem Isn’t Higher Gas Prices, It’s Lack of Choice 0
May 10: In Defense of the Corner Market 14
May 09: Michigan Voters Love Transit; State Legislators, Not So Much 0
May 09: Is More Transit Worthwhile If More Highways Are Part of the Bargain? 0
May 06: Two Years After the Stimulus Bill: Still a Political Grudge Match 0
May 06: Why Planners Need to Exercise (Not Exorcise) Their Passions 0
May 05: Scott Walker, Posterboy for Government Waste 0
May 04: Forget Your Bike Lock? Businesses in Portland Have You Covered 0
May 03: WaPo: Happy Bike Month, Scofflaws! 0
May 02: NACTO Releases Reader-Friendly Design Guide for Bike-Friendly Streets 4
May 02: Will Kids in Strollers Get the Heave-Ho on Boston Buses? 0
Apr 29: Digging a Hole: What’s Behind America’s Aversion to Fixing It First? 0
Apr 28: Third Houston Outerbelt Would Turn Prairies Into Texas Toast 11
Apr 28: Chasing the Elusive New Transit Rider, Missing the Bus? 0
Apr 27: Which Places Have the Best Complete Streets Policies? 5
Apr 27: Signal Timing and Pedestrian Safety: A Case Study From Baltimore 0
Apr 26: The New Dynamics That Are Eroding the Market for Sprawl 0
Apr 25: Under Pressure, AASHTO Withdraws Objection to Stronger Bike-Ped Rules 4
Apr 25: Arlington Republicans Come Out Against Bike-Share Expansion 0
Apr 21: The Budget Buster No One’s Talking About: It’s the Sprawl, Stupid 0
Apr 20: Zipcar Goes Public, Seattle Times Goes Road-Crazy, Commuters Go By Bike 0
Apr 19: Gabe Klein, Architect of DC’s Bike Progress, Is Chicago Bound 7
Apr 19: Suburban Commuter Rail: Politically Attractive, Functionally Repulsive 0
Apr 18: Paradigm Shift in Charleston: County Leaders Reject Highway Expansion 5
Apr 18: The Rising Price of Gas Is the Talk of the Nation 0
Apr 15: John Kasich’s Sad War on Transit (and Cities) 3
Apr 15: An Australian Perspective on Urban-Suburban Politics 0
Apr 14: The Columbia River Crossing: A Highway Boondoggle in Disguise 11
Apr 14: Portland Can’t Add Bike Parking Fast Enough to Please Businesses 0
Apr 13: Local Lawmakers: Don’t Mess With Texas Cyclists and Pedestrians 0
Apr 12: AASHTO: New Rule Makes it Too Hard to Ignore Cyclists and Pedestrians 29
Apr 12: Livability Star Vancouver the Latest City to Look at Highway Removal 0
Apr 11: “Drill Baby Drill” Won’t Solve America’s Energy Problems 2
Apr 11: Transit and Rail Likely to Take a Hit in Budget Compromise 0
Apr 08: Activists’ Warnings About Miami’s Brickell Avenue Prove Prophetic 0
Apr 07: The Ryan Budget: Doing the Same Thing, Expecting a Different Result 0
Apr 06: In Energy-Uncertain Future, Indiana DOT Bets That Nothing Will Change 0
Apr 05: How Far Should Bike and Transit Advocates Take Their Alliance? 0
Apr 04: Lavishing Developers With Publicly Funded Infrastructure in the D.C. Burbs 0
Apr 01: Study: American Competitiveness Hinges on the Greening of Freight 0
Apr 01: What L.A.’s 30/10 Plan Could Mean for Transit Funding Nationwide 0
Mar 31: Houston Planners Will Spend All Their Federal Air Quality Funding on Cars 0
Mar 31: Obama’s Energy Security Speech Misses the Mark 0
Mar 30: Congress Looking at High-Tech Solutions to Nation’s Infrastructure Woes 0
Mar 30: Pro-Sprawl Policies Help Make Milwaukee America’s Most Segregated Metro 0
Mar 29: Bad Ideas 101: An Outer-Outerbelt for Charlotte 0
Mar 25: Newsflash: Highways Are Handouts for Developers, Too 0
Mar 24: Houston Advocates Rally to Save Bike-Ped Funds From Motorhead Bureaucrats 7
Mar 24: There’s a New Sheriff at Ohio DOT, and He Likes Asphalt 0
Mar 23: “Highway Removal” Project in Cleveland Looks an Awful Lot Like a Highway 9
Mar 23: Car Companies Vie for Supremacy in Distracted Driving Arms Race 0
Mar 22: A Casino for Lower Manhattan? How Banishing Vice Can Backfire 0
Mar 21: Transit Agencies Seeking Operating Support Meet Politics as Usual 0
Mar 18: Sapping Street Life in Dallas, Ordinance by Ordinance 0
Mar 17: Tea Party Conspiracy Theorists Descend on Charlottesville, VA 0
Mar 16: Poll: Rising Fuel Prices Hitting Middle-Class Americans Hard 6
Mar 16: Downtowns are Back, and They’re Bringing Central Neighborhoods Along 0
Mar 15: In Tight Times for Transit Budgets, FTA Warns Agencies Not to Discriminate 3
Mar 15: Trying to Lure Google? Better Have Mixed-Use, Walkable Development 0
Mar 14: A Metro Detroit Business Owner on the Talent-Repelling Effect of Sprawl 21
Mar 14: In Detroit, Competing Interests Offer Competing Visions for Rail 0
Mar 11: What Boondoggle? Private Sector Wants in on HSR Action 5
Mar 10: NACTO: Feds Already Greenlighting Bikeway Design Innovations 2
Mar 10: Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. the Cincinnati Streetcar 0
Mar 09: New Bikeway Design Guide Could Bring Safer Cycling to More American Cities 16
Mar 09: State DOT “Improvements” Imperil Pedestrians in Florida 0
Mar 08: Bypasses of Bypasses: A Case Study on Induced Sprawl From North Carolina 0
Mar 07: On Eve of National Bike Summit, A Renewed Push for Separated Bike Lanes 28
Mar 07: Is Generational Turnover Necessary for the Return of Cities? 0
Mar 04: Money-Saving Planning Effort Squelched by Maine Gov. Paul LePage 4
Mar 04: Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So 0
Mar 03: Beyond Bus v. Rail: A Nuanced Approach to Evaluating Transit 0
Mar 02: Is Driving on the Decline in the Pacific Northwest? 0
Mar 01: A Car Becomes a Weapon in Brazil; Pedestrians Shortchanged in Detroit 0
Feb 28: Condos, Parking Lots, and Transit: D.C.’s Transportation Crossroads 0
Feb 25: Gov. Rick Scott Says He’s Not Reconsidering Florida HSR Position After All 5
Feb 25: Sprawl Wallops St. Louis With Eight Percent Population Loss 0
Feb 24: Rochester Residents, Left Out of Transpo Bill Hearing, Create Their Own 0
Feb 23: Road Interests Crowd Reauthorization Panels in Indiana and Chicago 0
Feb 23: Highways Take Center Stage at Columbus Transpo Field Hearing 4
Feb 23: Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker: Let Them Drive Cars 0
Feb 22: Less Is More: Highway Removal Could Make Buffalo a Better City 0
Feb 17: Poll: Voters From All Walks Support Transportation Improvements, Reform 0
Feb 17: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Has Some Strange Ideas About Job Creation 0
Feb 16: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Chooses Politics Over Constituents, Rejects HSR Funds 51
Feb 16: LaHood: Rail Is the Way Forward 0
Feb 15: 10 New Rail, BRT Projects Selected for Funding by DOT 1
Feb 15: Barbara Boxer Commends Obama’s Long-term Transpo Plan 0
Feb 15: Transportation Reformers Applaud Obama’s Six-Year Transpo Plan 0
Feb 14: Backwards Budgeting, City Love, and Dangerous Hybrids 0
Feb 11: When Will AASHTO Revise Its Policy Against Separated Bike Lanes? 0
Feb 10: A State DOT’s Unshakable Highway Fixation 2
Feb 10: More Cyclists = Safer Cycling in Minneapolis 0
Feb 09: In Charleston, an Affordable, Effective Alternative to Highway Expansion 1
Feb 09: New Jersey’s TOD Tax Credit Is Producing Jobs 0
Feb 08: Sprawl Breeds Sprawl 0
Feb 07: Virginia Tea Party: GOP Development Policies = Eco-Extremism 0
Feb 04: Award-Winning Transit-Oriented Development May Never Get Transit 0
Feb 03: Charleston Highway Plan, Back From the Dead, May Finally Meet Its Maker 4
Feb 03: The Dividends of Car-Free Parenting 0
Feb 02: What Does John McCain Have Against Bikes at Airports? 0
Feb 01: Heads Up, Tom Latham: Livability Pays Big Dividends in Rural Iowa 6
Feb 01: How Cars Won the Early Battle for the Streets 0
Jan 31: Rahm Emanuel’s Bike Plan for Chicago Gets High Marks 0
Jan 28: “Anti-Livability” Bills Threaten to Clip Arlington’s Wings 3
Jan 28: Measuring the Global Health Impact of Transportation Reform 0
Jan 27: The Long and Triumphant History of Women in Cycling 0
Jan 26: St. Louis: Plenty of Highways, Little Congestion, Long Commutes 0
Jan 25: Outside Milwaukee, Water Policy May Drain Cities and Destroy Rural Towns 4
Jan 25: Republican Opposition to Transit: A Geographic Explanation 0
Jan 24: Green Transportation Projects Moving Forward in Florida, Detroit 0
Jan 21: The Maddening Wrongness of TTI’s Annual Urban Mobility Rankings 0
Jan 19: Is It Time to Outlaw Car Radios? 0
Jan 18: Can Good Planning Tame the Suburban Retail Monster? 0
Jan 14: Returning Streets to People in South Korea: The Political Dividend 0
Jan 13: Oregon Lawmaker Wants to Outlaw Cycling With Young Children 0
Jan 12: Twin Cities Rein in Highway Expansions, Tame Runaway Transpo Spending 1
Jan 12: Cycling Up 70 Percent on London’s Bike Superhighways 0
Jan 11: Highway Expansion Rampant in Wisconsin, Which “Can’t Afford” Rail 0
Jan 10: Going Car-Free in a Car-Centric City 0
Jan 07: In Iowa, Another Midwest HSR Plan in Jeopardy 0
Jan 06: U.S. Auto Safety Standards: Undermining Efficiency, Ignoring Pedestrians 0
Jan 05: A Lesson in Heading Off Anti-Reform Rhetoric 0
Jan 04: Beating the Fare Hike Blues 0
Jan 03: A Transportation Manifesto For a New Decade 0
2010
Dec 21: Demanding Action on a Deadly Road in Portland 0
Dec 20: Wooing the Hesitant Cyclist 0
Dec 17: Arlington, Virginia: Livable By Design 0
Dec 16: The Secret to Enjoying Winter: Ditch the Car 0
Dec 15: Report: Commuters in Eugene, Oregon Have It Best 0
Dec 14: New Jersey Gets It Wrong on Parking Lot Privatization 0
Dec 13: How to Talk to a Conservative About Cycling 0
Dec 10: Can Rear-View Cameras Make SUVs Safer? 0
Dec 09: Ohio, Wisc. Rail Money to be Transferred to 13 Other States 6
Dec 09: Reincarnated ARC Tunnel Funds Proposed to Support Auto Infrastructure 0
Dec 08: Fort Worth City Council Smothers Streetcar in Its Crib 0
Dec 07: D.C.’s Metro Sees Cycling as an Opportunity to Grow Ridership 0
Dec 06: In Dallas, Sprawling City Form Hampers Shift to Light Rail 0
Dec 03: Fire Officials Challenge Street Safety Improvements in Virginia 0
Dec 02: Lessons For St. Louis From the UK’s “20’s Plenty” Campaign 0
Dec 01: Linking Transportation, Food Access and Health 0
Nov 30: The Final Push to Preserve an Important Benefit for Transit Riders 0
Nov 29: Multi-Family Developers: Easy Targets, Unintended Consequences 0
Nov 24: The Florida State DOT vs. Livability 0
Nov 23: A Former Traffic Engineer on the Industry’s Perverse Standards 0
Nov 22: Using Parking Fees to Reduce Street Consumption 0
Nov 19: Garage to Condo: The Case for Convertible Parking Space 0
Nov 18: Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact the Future of Car Sharing? 0
Nov 17: European Carmakers Get Into the Bicycle Business 0
Nov 16: Shocker: Returning $3B to Feds Won’t Cure Ailing NJ Transpo Budget 0
Nov 15: Retrofitting the Suburban Strip 0
Nov 12: “As Efficient as a U-Haul” — One Family’s Story of Moving by Bike 0
Nov 11: U.S. Trade Deficit Joined at the Hip to U.S. Oil Dependence 0
Nov 10: A Promising Start for Minneapolis Bike-Sharing 0
Nov 09: How Indianapolis Could Raise the Bar for Midwest Transit Investment 0
Nov 08: Estranged Bedfellows: Trains and Conservatism 0
Nov 05: An Open Letter to Ohio Governor-Elect John Kasich 24
Nov 05: Young People on Car Ownership: Meh 0
Nov 04: Columbus Developers: Transit Riders Are Bad for Business 0
Nov 03: The Fiscal Argument for Transportation Reform 0
Nov 02: In Austin and Around the Nation: Big Stakes for Green Transportation 0
Nov 01: Could Restructuring the Gas Tax Fund the Transportation Bill? 0
Oct 29: Separating Cyclists From Air Pollution 0
Oct 28: Becoming a YIMBY for Livable Communities 0
Oct 27: Cycling Tips From a Bike-Commuting Bus Driver 0
Oct 26: How One Arizona Town Is Encouraging People to Get High and Drive 0
Oct 25: The Case Against Linking Bike Safety Improvements to Cyclists’ Behavior 0
Oct 22: The Shrinking American House: Sign of a Cultural Shift? 0
Oct 20: In Detroit, a Long-Overdue Push to Create a Cohesive Transit System 0
Oct 19: How Walkable Are the Streets Near Your Transit Stop? 0
Oct 18: How Would You Define Transit-Oriented Development? 0
Oct 15: The Fitness Gap: Americans Walk Far Less Than People in Other Countries 0
Oct 14: Which Cities Are Making the Quickest Shift Away From Cars? 0
Oct 13: Sounding the Alarm on Bike-Ped Deaths and Injuries in D.C. 0
Oct 12: The Pay Toilet: Coming Soon to a Street Corner Near You? 0
Oct 08: In Death of ARC Tunnel, Political Grandstanding Trumps Governing 0
Oct 07: Mourning the Potential Loss of Bus Service in Long Island 0
Oct 06: Questioning Obama’s Transpo Legacy as Fresno County Sprawls 0
Oct 05: Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets? 0
Oct 04: Given a Choice, NJ and PA Sacrifice Bike-Ped Funding 0
Sep 30: How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl 0
Sep 29: New Orleans, Honolulu Rocket Up the Bike Commute Charts 0
Sep 28: Investigative Series on Transpo Safety Overlooks Most Vulnerable Travelers 0
Sep 27: When It Comes to Successful Transit, Density Is Not Destiny 0
Sep 24: “Forgiving” Distracted Driving Won’t Keep Our Streets Safe 0
Sep 23: Development Near Transit Too Pricey? Build More Transit 0
Sep 21: The Local Planning Commission: Still Hindering Progress Toward Walkability 0
Sep 20: The Psychology of Road Rage: How Cars Transform Others Into Obstacles 0
Sep 17: Making Transportation Safer for “Invisible Cyclists” 0
Sep 16: The Unnatural Demise (and Possible Revival) of the Baltimore Streetcar 0
Sep 15: In Miami, Advocating for Parking Surplus to Pay for Better Transit 0
Sep 14: Portland School Casts Off Bike Ban, Embraces Cycling 0
Sep 13: Without a Plan, Sprawl Will Continue to Hollow Out Cleveland Region 23
Sep 13: Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick 0
Sep 09: Leinberger: Infrastructure Bank the Right Prescription for Ailing Economy 0
Sep 08: Green Transportation Depends on Reining in Space for Cars 0
Sep 07: First Impressions of Obama’s Big Infrastructure Announcement 0
Sep 03: Traffic Death Experts Ignore the Role of Dangerous Streets 0
Sep 02: Livability: A Small Town Value 0
Sep 01: Debunking the Myth of Motorist Entitlement to Monopolize the Road 0
Aug 31: One More Legal Hurdle for Texas Cyclists 0
Aug 30: Winning Votes for Transit: Lessons From a Conservative 0
Aug 27: DC Region Thinks Bigger for Bike-Sharing 0
Aug 26: Proof From Jersey That Laws Protecting Sidewalks Don’t Endanger Peds 0
Aug 25: In Support of Atlanta’s Streetcar Proposal 0
Aug 24: In Atlanta’s TIGER Bid, Innovative “Beltline” Takes Backseat to Streetcar 0
Aug 23: New Evidence Links Sprawl to Parking Minimums 0
Aug 20: The Public Hazards of Privatizing Infrastructure 0
Aug 19: Texas Judge Deems Cyclist Guilty for Riding on the Road 0
Aug 18: Wisconsin Gov Candidate Threatens Rail Extension 0
Aug 17: Houston METRO Expands Access By Removing Seats 0

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