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Will Toronto Get Cars Out of the Way of the King Street Streetcar?
Despite running through some of Toronto's most densely populated areas, King Street is designed like a suburban road. Cars have dominion while the city's streetcar has no dedicated right-of-way despite high ridership -- so it sits in heavy traffic. But it looks that's about to change.
January 19, 2016
Missouri Lawmaker Wants to Require Tall Fluorescent Flags for Cyclists
In what is perhaps the most comical anti-bike legislation to come out of a statehouse in years (and that is really saying something) a Missouri lawmaker has proposed legislation that would require any cyclist riding on a "lettered county road" to use an orange, fluorescent flag that stands at least 15 feet off the ground.
January 14, 2016
Blaming Pedestrians While Absolving the Streets That Kill Them
It didn't take long for Louisville to notch its first pedestrian death of the year. Brian O’Neal, 46, was killed on the sixth day of 2016 while trying to cross Dixie Highway.
January 13, 2016
Northeast Ohio to State DOT: Road Expansions Getting Out of Hand
If you could point to one aspect of American transportation policy that's more disastrous than all the others, expanding highways and roads to the point of absurdity is probably it.
January 12, 2016
Straightening Out the Vestigial Kinks in Bus Routes
Just a few months after Houston reorganized its bus network to provide more frequent service where more people can use it -- without increasing the operating budget -- ridership is already on the upswing.
January 11, 2016
Portland Bike-Share Ready to Roll Thanks to $10 Million From Nike
"Huge" is how Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland described the news yesterday that Nike will sponsor Portland's upcoming bike-share system to the tune of $10 million.
January 8, 2016
A Letter-Grade System for Walkable Retail Buildings
What makes a building walkable? Or rather, what kind of buildings make a city walkable?
January 7, 2016
Philly Reduced Its Public Parking Supply and More Spaces Opened Up
If you remove a bunch of parking from the center of a city, you'll get carmageddon, financial ruin, and the complete unraveling of society as we know it -- right? That's what you tend to hear at public meetings when a proposal that would reduce parking comes up, but as this real-life example from Philadelphia shows, there's really nothing to fear.
January 6, 2016
Visualizing LA’s 18.6 Million Parking Spaces as One Enormous Blob
Here's a great visualization of how much land parking spaces consume in our cities, via Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions.
January 5, 2016
Sacramento Freeways and the “Small Town Mindset”
"It’s time to drop the small-town mindset and go for a big fix."
January 4, 2016