Charlotte
The Critical Climate Change Solution That No One Is Talking About
A new report has finally put hard numbers to America's most overlooked climate and car-cutting solution: more development in neighborhoods where people don't need to drive everywhere.
April 24, 2023
Can Athletes Help Solve Urbanism’s PR Problem? Soccer Star Tesho Akindele Thinks So
If the typical professional athlete talks about transportation at all, it's usually in the context of a mulit-million SUV commercial. Soccer star Tesho Akindele, though, isn't the typical athlete — and as he transitions out of his career on the field, he wants to make a full-time job out of building walkable, bikeable, equitable cities.
February 14, 2023
Charlotte Provides the Most Compelling Evidence for E-Scooters Yet
People like them, much more so than dockless bikes even, new data from Charlotte shows.
August 30, 2018
How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous
Journalists should be more skeptical of police accounts of pedestrian deaths.
August 8, 2018
Charlotte Transit Has Problems That Expensive Fantasy Maps Won’t Fix
Kimley-Horn, a multinational consulting firm looking to plan the next phases of the Charlotte area's rail expansion, also has ideas for new rail lines above and beyond the region's long-term blueprint -- projects that would be designed and built, naturally, by multinational consulting firms like Kimley-Horn. Trouble is, the firm's fantasy exercise does nothing to address the real challenges facing Charlotte's transit network.
May 10, 2017
It’s “Transit Christmas” for These Bus and Train Projects in Obama’s Budget
In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year 2016. Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and Talking Headways fame called it "Transit Christmas."
February 3, 2015
The 10 Best and Worst Cities to Catch a Bus to Work
It's been called "the geography of opportunity." And David Levinson is trying to make a science of it.
October 7, 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
Charlotte and Denver Join Urban Innovators at NACTO
The group that brought you the Urban Bikeway Design Guide and the Urban Street Design Guide is expanding.
October 28, 2013
The Beginning of the End for Level of Service?
There are three little words that will make any livable streets advocate groan: Level of Service.
October 3, 2013