Jersey Pays Subaru to Bring Another Parking Crater to Downtown Camden
Camden, New Jersey, took home the 2015 Golden Crater award for the nastiest parking scar in the country, and it looks like state and local leaders aren't about to let the city rest on its laurels.
August 31, 2015
What’s the Actual Cost of Amtrak’s Trans-Hudson Gateway Project?
Five years after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spiked the ARC transit tunnel to redirect money to roads, politicians are finally discussing how to go about upgrading rail capacity between Jersey and Midtown Manhattan, currently limited to a pair of century-old tunnels under the Hudson River. But just about every announcement related to the proposed Gateway Project comes with a different price tag.
August 21, 2015
Safe Streets Pioneer Deb Hubsmith Has Died
Today the Streetsblog Network is mourning Deb Hubsmith, who died this week at age 45.
August 20, 2015
CDC: Make Cycling Safer With Protected Bike Lanes and Lower Speed Limits
What if the United States treated traffic violence like the public health issue it is? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that would entail building bike infrastructure and slowing down drivers.
August 19, 2015
Confounded by Spike in U.S. Traffic Deaths and Injuries? Look Around
Traffic fatalities in the U.S. increased by 14 percent through June of this year compared to the first six months of 2014, and serious injuries jumped by 30 percent, according to the National Safety Council [PDF]. At the current rate, the group says, nationwide road deaths would top 40,000 for the first time since 2007.
August 18, 2015
Governor Larry Hogan’s Red Line Derailment Will Cost Maryland $100M
We have an update on one of the year's biggest stories on the Network. Remember when Maryland Governor Larry Hogan killed the long-planned Baltimore Red Line so he could spend the funds on road projects? Washington says that decision is about to cost the state $100 million in federal funds.
August 17, 2015
To Become a Sustainable City, Atlanta Must Face Its Parking Addiction
Does Atlanta want to be a sustainable, transit-oriented city? The answer has a lot to do with how it addresses parking.
August 14, 2015
The U.S. Made Cars Safer, and It’s Past Time to Do the Same for Streets
If you have a well-worn copy of Ralph Nader’s seminal “Unsafe at Any Speed” on your bookshelf -- and who doesn’t? -- you know that in the mid 20th century U.S. auto companies were hostile to the idea of designing safer cars. Introducing basic features like padded dashboards and collapsible steering columns, the thinking went, would be tantamount to acknowledging that driving is dangerous.
August 12, 2015
50,000 Portlanders Turn Out to Preview the Car-Free “People’s Bridge”
On Sunday residents of Portland got a preview of Tilikum Crossing, a.k.a. the "Bridge of the People," described by Michael Andersen of BikePortland as "the first bridge in the United States to carry buses, bikes, trains, streetcars and people walking but no private cars."
August 11, 2015
Metro Goes Off the Rails, and DC Streets Grind to a Halt
No one was hurt when a Metro train derailed in downtown DC yesterday, but the incident wreaked havoc on the morning commute -- for transit users and motorists.
August 7, 2015