Cities, Counties, States and Countries
In New York, Business Groups — Not the City — Lead on People-Centered Streets
Commercial interests have pushed pedestrianization in the city's core shopping areas — because it improves their bottom lines. That can be good for residents but it has downsides, too.
November 29, 2021
OPINION: New Yorkers Deserve Trash-Free Sidewalks
Here's one thing you'll see on Black Friday: mountains of trash bags on our sidewalks.
November 26, 2021
Wisconsin Car Attack is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
November 24, 2021
Seattle Strongly Supports Street Safety: Poll
Pedestrian streets, protected bike lanes, and bus lanes are popular.
November 22, 2021
Chicago’s dearth of public restrooms limits access to public space. Let’s fix that.
More public bathrooms would help people from many walks of life, including some of our city's most vulnerable residents.
November 21, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Expansion and Service in the Pandemic
This week we’re at the 2021 Virtual Railvolution conference. Adelee Le Grand, CEO of Tampa's transit system, moderates a panel featuring Debra Johnson of RTD in Denver, and Peter Rogoff of Sound Transit in Seattle. Johnson and Rogoff discuss progress in their regions and the effects of the pandemic.
November 18, 2021
Opinion: Louisville’s ‘Fix’ for Traffic Congestion Shows the Irrationality of Drivers
Two states spent $1 billion doubling the size of I-65, only to have half as many people use the bridge. Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter folly of highway expansions.
November 18, 2021
It’s Time for America to Talk About Bike Parking
A historic commitment to increase bike parking in Paris has U.S. advocates wondering why cycle storage doesn't get the same level of attention in American cities — and sharing policy strategies that could help.
November 5, 2021
Portland Considers Electric-Cargo-Bike Delivery Hubs
The City of Portland is considering a new use for streets that would lead to cleaner and greener deliveries: “micro delivery hubs.”
November 4, 2021
Eyes On the Street: A Quick Ride on Boston’s New Transitway
Boston’s new center-running bus lanes are open for business in Roxbury, and they’re already delivering major benefits to pedestrian and transit riders along Columbus Avenue between Franklin Park and the Jackson Square Orange Line stop. StreetsblogMASS visited the new bus lanes on Wednesday morning to try them out. The 0.7 mile ride went by remarkably […]
November 3, 2021
