Does It Take a Crime This Egregious to Hold Drivers Accountable?
A lively night out at one of the year’s most popular festivals turned to carnage last night as a driver rammed through barricades into a pedestrian-only zone at the South By Southwest music-and-film festival in Austin.
March 13, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: Taking Transit Numbers for a Spin
What a week! Transit ridership skyrocketed (ahem, by 1.1 percent) to levels not seen since 1956 (depending how you look at it). Radio Shack is shutting down 20 percent of its stores. Is brick-and-mortar retail collapsing -- and is it just as well, if getting delivery from Amazon is more efficient than driving to the store anyway? Plus, there's a new video game for transit nerds to stay up all night obsessing over!
March 13, 2014
With Ridership on the Rise, Will Congress Step Up and Invest in Transit?
Yesterday the American Public Transportation Association reported that Americans made more transit trips in 2013 than in any other year since 1956. Of course, per capita ridership is still low compared to the 1950s, and we're nowhere near the ridership peaks of the 1940s. But when transit trips increase 1.1 percent while population rises 0.7 percent, you know change is afoot.
March 11, 2014
Today’s Headlines
Amtrak’s 2014 To-Do List Includes Positive Train Control, NEC Updates (Railway Age) Houston Chronicle and Grist Throw Cold Water on Record Transit Numbers … But Utah Has Every Right to Celebrate Its Frontrunner Transit Status (AP) Bike League Responds to Questions About Need for Separate Women’s Summit Sen. Rubio Further Complicates Tax Reform Proposal, Which Was … Continued
March 11, 2014
Today’s Headlines
Transit Ridership at Its Highest Point Since the Rise of the Suburbs (AP, NYT) Camp Looking to Obama for a “Common Road” on Tax Reform (The Hill) Senate Dems to Pull an All-Nighter for the Climate Tonight (The Hill) When “Local Control” Means State Government Controls the Locals… (Tennessean) …Sometimes the States (i.e. SC) Threaten … Continued
March 10, 2014
Bill Peduto: If Pittsburgh Can Make Streets Bikeable, You Can Do It Anywhere
Bike advocates from places like Portland, New York, and Boulder got a little Rust Belt envy this week when Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto spoke to the National Bike Summit Tuesday morning.
March 7, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: Live (Well, Taped) From the National Bike Summit
This week, more than 700 bicycling advocates converged in Washington -- despite a snowstorm that closed down the federal government on Monday cancelled thousands of flights -- to learn from each other and compare notes from the past year.
March 6, 2014
Sec. Foxx: Bicycle Infrastructure Can Be a “Ladder of Opportunity”
This morning, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s blog post is all about bicycling. He opens by touting the complete streets policy he helped implement in Charlotte (it passed before he was mayor) and the city’s bike-share system -- the largest in the Southeast.
March 5, 2014