Tanya Snyder

Two Children Die and 338 Are Injured Every Day While Riding in Vehicles (Forbes) Will Water Bill Pass, Giving Transpo a Chance to Be Debated? (The Hill) Yesterday Was Car-Free Day in China Too (Xinhua) Yglesias: New Jersey Should Raise Its Gas Tax (and End the Full Service Mandate) (Slate) SEPTA Budget Cuts Could Mean … Continued

There's only one reason to be inside on a beautiful day like today, and that is to upload pictures of this beautiful day. More to the point, it's Park(ing) Day, a celebration of better uses for on-street parking spaces. All over this city, and in cities around the country, temporary parklets have sprung up in spaces normally reserved for car storage. They're a real-life illustration of how much more vibrant our cities could be if we let people take up street space instead of cars.

Despite increased toll rates, toll roads saw their debt per roadway mile increase by a third last year, from $14.3 million in fiscal 2011 to $18.9 million in 2012.

Congratulations, America. We're biking to work more than ever before.

We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning, which we published yesterday. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute -- where he serves as executive director -- about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense.

Many people have been inspired by UCLA Professor Donald Shoup’s epic takedown of American parking policy, but few have turned that newfound passion into the kind of scholarship Alan Durning has produced on the issue. The executive director of the Pacific Northwest’s sustainability think tank, Sightline Institute, has now published 12 installments in a series called “Parking? Lots!” -- and there's more coming.

Reason: Let’s Toll All the Interstates and Go on a Road Expansion Binge (Governing) Washington Post Is Wrong That More Roads Will Solve Congestion in the Exurbs (Sustainable Cities) The Bus Won’t Get Stuck in Traffic — It Will Drive Over It (Good) In Oregon, Driving Peaked in 2000 (Sightline) Designing a City for the … Continued

Jay Hansen is executive vice president of the National Asphalt Pavement Association. He’s led the organization’s efforts to secure federal highway funding and even convinced the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to install a permanent asphalt pavement exhibit. He says he’s been reading Streetsblog Capitol Hill since it started publishing. I talked to him Friday after the association’s first-ever Washington “fly-in” to strategize about legislation and lobby Congress. T. Carter Ross, NAPA’s Vice President for Communications was also with us.

Obama: “A Robot Can’t Build a Road” (Business Insider) Sen. Bob Casey Introduces Bill to Fund the Bridges MAP-21 Ignored (Sun Gazette, Pgh Biz Times) Long-Awaited Action on WRRDA Bill Could Finally Free Up T&I for Other Items (Wisconsin Ag) Congress Always Averts a Shutdown at the Last Minute, But Maybe Not This Time (WaPo) … Continued

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