Male Cyclists Need to Stop the “Macho Nonsense” Directed at Female Riders
In the United States, women account for only a quarter of bike trips. There are many possible factors for the discrepancy: the lack of bike infrastructure, social pressures during adolescence, and complex trip patterns play a role. But one of the big things keeping women out of the saddle is that when they bike they're harassed. All the time.
June 6, 2017
Today’s Headlines
Schumer Blasts “Trump Tolls” and Wall Street Infrastructure Privatization (Hill, MarketWatch, CNBC, WaPo) Motor Vehicles, Always Dangerous, Now Being Used as Weapons in Terrorist Attacks (Atlantic) Tysons Corner Metro Ridership Far Below Projections in Part Because It’s Impossible to Walk There (WAMU) DC Metro: An International Cautionary Tale About What Happens When Transit Basics Are Neglected (WaPo) Expanding Park-and-Ride a Poor … Continued
June 6, 2017
Miami Beach Wants Affordable Housing, But Won’t Remove Parking to Get It
Putting housing on top of parking garages, rather than replacing car storage with housing, would be a missed opportunity for walkable Miami Beach.
June 5, 2017
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Caves to NIMBYs, Hacks Away at Protected Bike Lane
Pugh altered a bikeway as it was being constructed, endangering the physical safety of people on bikes to appease parking-obsessed complainers.
June 5, 2017
Today’s Headlines
White House Plans to Talk Infrastructure This Week But Will Let Congress Figure Out How to Pay for It (Hill 1, 2) Denver Suburb Votes Tomorrow: Stay Sprawling or Become Walkable Around Light Rail Station? (Denver Post) Meanwhile: Atlanta’s Gwinnett County Suburbs Are Courting Walkable Downtown Development (Bisnow) Nashville’s Mayor Begins Making Case for Voters to Back Transit Expansion Funding Measure (NewsChannel 5) Toledo-Area … Continued
June 5, 2017
Today’s Headlines
T&I Chair Bill Schuster Open to “Targeted Tolling” on Highways In “Really Congested Areas” (Herald-Mail) Oregon Legislature’s Transportation Funding Plan Includes a Lot of Freeway Expansions (BikePortland) Conservative Opposition to Increasing Taxes Kills Proposed Louisiana Gas Tax Hike (Advocate) Transportation Is Ripe for a Shake-Up, and That Must Include Changing How We Think About Cars (Frontier Group) … Continued
June 2, 2017
Urban Designers Take a Do-It-Yourself Approach to Taming Houston’s Extra-Wide Streets
Impatient at the slow rate of change on Houston's streets, advocates and urban designers took it upon themselves to tame some of their city's wide roads -- and are promising to come back for a second round soon.
June 1, 2017
Riding Transit Should Never Be a Pathway to Deportation
A sad story has been unfolding over the past few weeks in the Twin Cities, where a transit fare enforcement stop led to a man being deported. The officer who initiated the stop, Andy Lamers, has since been fired, but it was too late for the passenger, Ariel Vences-Lopez, 23.
June 1, 2017
Today’s Headlines
New York Real Estate Titan Richard LeFrak, a Trump Advisor, Wants to Raise the Gas Tax (CNBC) If Trump Withdraws From Paris Accord, Elon Musk Says He’ll Cut Ties With White House (Verge) Pittsburgh Goes Big With Its Planned BRT Line, Will Seek Federal Funding This Autumn (Post-Gazette, Trib) Uber Burned $1 Million a Week in SF Alone, Giving Discounts … Continued
June 1, 2017
El Paso’s Suburbs Are Getting Sidewalks and Local TV News Talked to Pedestrians About It
A refreshing change from the typical NIMBY-centric coverage of "controversial" sidewalks.
May 31, 2017
