Tanya Snyder

Connecticut: Another Carmaggeddon That Wasn’t (CNN) Northeast Corridor Can Expect a Normal Rush Hour Commute Wednesday Morning (Reuters) Heritage Scripts the Anti-Livability, Pro-Sprawl Talking Points for Foxx‘s Confirmation Hearing Why Did the Last Climate Bill Fail? Unemployment Was Too High. (WaPo) Transportation Experts Respond to U.S. PIRG Study on the Decline in Driving (National Journal) … Continued

President Obama’s transportation budget proposal can give you a contact high if you stand too close. The prospect of budget surpluses -- in the near-term, at least -- is intoxicating. And the source of those surpluses -- from Overseas Contingency Operations -- is a hallucination.

Connecticut Rail Shutdown Could Mean “Carmaggedon” on I-95 (USA Today, Globe, NYT) Foxx Is a Shoo-In For Transpo Secretary But He’s Not Leaving Anything to Chance (News & Observer) Obama Seeks to Further Fast-Track Infrastructure Project Reviews (White House) Doubling Tripling Quintupling Down on Obama’s Infrastructure Bank Idea (TID) Ways and Means Chair Uses IRS … Continued

There’s so much to unpack in the landmark report released by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group earlier this week on transportation trends. Tuesday, we focused on the disparity between government transportation forecasts and recent realities. We also took a look at a few reasons to believe that the millennial generation – those aged 13 to 30 right now -- will continue to drive less than previous generations. One of those reasons is that technology has reduced our need to drive in many different ways.

We’ve been writing a lot this week about the national shift away from car travel and toward transit, biking, and walking. Yesterday, Washington area officials released new data that indicates the DC region is at the forefront of that trend.

As we try to understand why young people are so much less jazzed about driving than previous generations, one possible explanation always comes up: Kids today just love their smart phones.

There’s a tussle going on right now about how cyclists should ride on city streets. Yesterday's Streetsblog Network post took a snapshot of this debate, excerpting the WashCycle’s response to a Sarah Goodyear piece in Atlantic Cities.

At some point over the past few years, a lot of my friends started moving to Silver Spring and Takoma Park and Falls Church. These inner-ring, transit-connected suburbs of DC are still far less compact and walkable than the neighborhoods my friends moved from. So they bought cars.

The driving boom is over.

Will High-Speed Rail Ever Get Off the Ground? (Governing) Amtrak’s Shiny New Locomotives Are Emblematic of Improving Financial Health (AP) Hey, There’s a National Transportation Week! And It’s This Week! (JoC) Point: Want Cycling to Be Treated Like a Legit Form of Transportation? Act Like It. (Atlantic Cities) Counterpoint: Cyclists Shouldn’t Have to Be More … Continued