Phoenix
Surprise Attack on Phoenix Light Rail Expansion Reeks of Koch Brother Interference
The 11th-hour opposition campaign seeks to stop a project supported by 75 percent of neighborhood residents just three years ago.
June 20, 2018
Fed Up With an Apathetic City Hall, Phoenix Complete Streets Volunteers Resign En Masse
Seven members of Phoenix's Complete Streets Advisory Board resigned in disgust this week, frustrated by the lack of action from city officials to make streets safer for walking and biking.
June 1, 2018
Phoenix Dithers on Traffic Safety While People Die
In a city where streets are dreadful for pedestrians, the victims of dangerous walking conditions are mostly poor people, and public officials aren't responsive to the risks they face.
May 24, 2018
Can Phoenix Be Shamed Into Protecting Pedestrians?
For years, the city's streets department delayed action on safer street design as hundreds of people lost their lives. Now advocates hope to force the agency's hand.
April 16, 2018
In Phoenix, a Light Rail Station Designed For, and By, People With Disabilities
In Phoenix, people with disabilities have an incredible resource called Ability360.
January 5, 2018
Insane Comic Books Warn Phoenix Children That Biking Will Kill Them
Hey kids, the Phoenix Department of Street Transportation has a fun message for you: Riding your bike is likely to result in a gory horror scene. If you don't wear your helmet, of course.
April 21, 2016
Using L.A. Traffic Counts to Justify Sprawl in the Arizona-Nevada Desert
A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good.
September 24, 2014
Phoenix Light Rail Beats Projections, and the Mayor Wants More
Can Phoenix become a transit city? It's looking like more and more of a possibility lately.
August 14, 2014
Arizonans Driving Like It’s 1994
Here's more evidence that there's a shift underway in how Americans get around: The Arizona Public Interest Research Group has released a new report [PDF] showing that residents of this sprawling Sun Belt state are driving less and taking transit more.
July 23, 2014
Sprawl Madness Redux: Driving 17 Miles to Go 500 Feet in Phoenix
Last year, Angie posted an unfortunate map of two houses in Orlando that share a backyard but are seven miles apart if you take the disconnected local street system. That's quite a distance to ask your neighbor for a cup of sugar.
May 20, 2014