Today’s Headlines
Cities Are Way Ahead of Countries on Climate Action (Grist) Brookings Looks Beyond the 85% Solo Driving Rate to Discover Big Changes The Guardian Compares the Affordability of the World’s Transit Systems Not Raising the Gas Tax Ends Up Costing Drivers More Than Raising It (NJ.com) Rutgers Prof Explains the Limitations of New Census Data on Bicycling … Continued
September 30, 2014
Today’s Headlines
Speaker Boehner: Passing a Long-Term Transportation Bill Is “Doable” (The Hill) Seattle’s King County Cuts 28 Bus Routes, Considers Expanding Paratransit (Q13 Fox, Kirkland Reporter) Market-Rate Parking Comes to Seattle (CrossCut) Divvy Bike-Share Expands to Chicago Suburbs (Sun-Times) Bikelash Snarls Completion of Philly Bike Lane (Inquirer via Planetizen) Rail Line Will Be Restored As Part of I-11 Nevada Boondoggle … Continued
September 29, 2014
Complete Freeways? Florida Tries Bike Lanes on Highway Bridges
A few years ago, a person living in a working-class neighborhood of Miami and commuting to the tourism district in Miami Beach could pretty much forget about walking or biking there. Her choices were either to pay for the bus or buy a car, but healthy, active transportation was impossible -- or at least, illegal. Biking and walking were banned on the causeways between the mainland and the barrier islands.
September 25, 2014
Talking Headways Short: The Real News About America’s Driving Habits
Consider this a bonus track. A deleted scene at the end of your DVD. Extra footage.
September 24, 2014
U.S. DOT to Publish Its Own Manual on Protected Bike Lanes
Before the end of this year, the Federal Highway Administration will release its own guidance on designing protected bike lanes.
September 23, 2014
Today’s Headlines
U.S. DOT Announces $3.6B for Transit Resiliency on East Coast (AP) Dem Lawmakers Kick Off Rail~Volution With Plea For More Money (Finance & Commerce) U.S. DOT Sued Over Failure to Produce Truck Driver Training Rule (Go By Truck) Distracted Walking Causing Rise in Ped Fatalities? Nobody Knows But WaPo Says Yes Ann Arbor Transit Expands Hours, Increases … Continued
September 23, 2014
Don’t Look Now, But the House Amtrak Bill Actually Has Some Good Ideas
Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will consider a bill that changes the nation’s policies on passenger rail. The proposal, while it includes some cuts, is a departure from the senseless vendetta many House Republicans have waged against Amtrak in the past. The National Association of Railroad Passengers, NARP, says the plan contains "commonsense regulatory and governance reforms."
September 16, 2014
Today’s Headlines
Rail~Volution About to Get Underway in the Twin Cities (Strib) Detroit Cheers TIGER Grant for Woodward Avenue Streetcar Line (Detroit News) Scientist Praises Blumenauer’s Call to Replace Gas Tax With VMT Fee (Roll Call) Coalition Forms to Address New Jersey Transportation Funding Crisis (NJ.com) Study of Housing + Transportation Costs Show Low-Income People Struggling (NLIHC) … Continued
September 16, 2014
Talking Headways: Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Redux
After a week at the Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Pro-Place Conference in Pittsburgh, it was all I could talk about -- and luckily, Jeff was an eager audience.
September 15, 2014
Today’s Headlines
Transportation for America Chooses Favorite TIGER Projects An Urbanist’s Review of Pro-Walk Pro-Bike and Its Host City (Community Architect) Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Leaves Behind a Two-Way Cycletrack (Post-Gazette) Maryland Ballot Measure Would Prevent Raiding of Transportation Fund (Herald-Mail) Texas Has $54 Billion in Road Debt and Wants Permission to Spend More (Star-Telegram) Charlotte Finds Streetcar Operational Costs … Continued
September 15, 2014