Tanya Snyder

Atlanta’s BeltLine of bike and pedestrian trails is raising property values in every place it touches. Denver’s new rail line will create a much-needed link between Union Station downtown and the airport, 23 miles away. Miami is building 500 miles of bike paths and trails. Los Angeles is breaking new ground with everything from rail expansion to traffic light synchronization. And Salt Lake City’s mayor bikes to work and, by increasing investment in bike infrastructure, is encouraging a lot of others to join him.

Do people of color and low-income people ride bikes? Not as much as they could, given all the great benefits biking offers, particularly to people without a lot of disposable cash. But yes, non-white and non-rich people ride bikes -- in high numbers compared to the general population, by some measures.

UPDATE in fourth paragraph about takeoff and landing space.

U.S. DOT Kicks Off Teen Traffic Safety Week  Seniors Should Consider Transportation Options When Planning Retirement (NYT) Texas Republicans Want Welfare for Their Roads (WSJ) Work Begins on Freeing Bertha, the Tunnel Borer Stuck Under Seattle (PI) Citing Safety, New Jersey Cities Beg to Keep Red Light Cameras (NJ.com) Portland Needs to Maintain Protected Space for … Continued

This LA Times Editorial Seriously Begins “Motorists Unite!” Cincinnati Bike-Share Beats Expectations (Local 12) Is the Architecture at Denver’s Union Station Telling People of Color to Stay Away? (Post) Iowa Bicyclist’s Life Worth $1,500 According to Judge (Register) Is New York City Underpopulated? (Salon) Revelstoke Times Review Examines the Costs of Various Transportation in the Canadian … Continued

Yesterday, we published part one of my interview with Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. We talked about whether the push for infrastructure investment is always code for increasing car capacity, and how the Vision Zero campaign bears the legacy of 100-year-old movements to make streets safe for everyone.

Biden’s Infrastructure Speech Highlights the Administration’s Disappointing Record (CFR, AP) “Possible” Presidential Candidates Still Trading Barbs About the Auto Bailout (WaPo) Sen. Susan Collins Pushes to Raise Trucker Limit From 70 to 82 Hours a Week (The Hill) Let’s All Calm the Heck Down About Ebola on Public Transportation (Yahoo News) When Oil Prices Rise, Pols … Continued

Last week, a bunch of bigwigs gathered to talk infrastructure in one of Washington’s most historic and prestigious sites, the Hay-Adams Hotel across the street from the White House. I was offered an opportunity to interview former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and a host of other VIPs. But -- no offense to those guys -- the person I wanted to talk to was Peter Norton, listed as the “lead scholar” of the Miller Center’s new commission to “develop innovative, bipartisan ideas on how to create and sustain middle-class jobs through infrastructure policy.”

Many bicycle advocacy groups find themselves in a sticky position today: They’re increasingly aware that their membership doesn’t reflect the diversity of the broader population, but they’re not sure how to go about recruiting new members, or how to do it in a way that doesn’t amount to tokenism.

Seattle’s Bike-Share System Launches With 500 Bikes (Post-Intelligencer, Slog) Tucson Streetcar Beats Expectations (Clean Technica) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Has Surprisingly Non-Crazy Idea for Transpo Funding (State Journal) Philadelphia Studies Feasibility of Restoring Transit on Abandoned Line (Next City) Providence TIGER Grant Has Connecticut Thinking About Streetcars (WNPR) What If LA and Dallas Had the … Continued