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Will Midwest Governors Drain the Great Lakes to Foster Sprawl?
A story with major implications for development patterns in the U.S. is playing out right now in greater Milwaukee.
May 4, 2015
Bipartisan Bill Proposes National Complete Streets Policy
Streets that safely accommodate everyone, from motorists to cyclists, pedestrians, and transit users -- complete streets -- have become policy for many American communities, having been implemented in more than 700 local jurisdictions and states around the country. A new bill in Washington attempts, again, to make complete streets the federal standard as well.
May 1, 2015
Will Private Transit Startups Help or Hurt Public Transit?
The rise of private transit operators like Bridj, Leap, and Uberpool has raised questions about equity in places including the Bay Area, where such services are fast replicating. A related issue is the impact they will have on traditional public transit systems.
April 30, 2015
Absurd “Pedestrian Safety Kit” Highlights the Perils of Walking in America
Given how fundamental walking is to our humanity and our health, it's sad to see how marginalized pedestrians have become in our transportation system.
April 29, 2015
Study That Spurred Bike Helmet Fetish Was Repudiated By Its Own Authors
The authors of a study that helped foment the public and governmental obsession with bike helmets later issued research that undermined their initial findings.
April 28, 2015
Is Your City Making Full Use of Existing Transit Investments?
Chicago's rail transit infrastructure has a lot of unused capacity, Yonah Freemark wrote last week on the blog of the Metropolitan Planning Council, and making use of it might be cheaper and easier than expanding the system.
April 27, 2015
Texas DOT Is Planning to Tear Down a Highway — Seriously
This may be the best evidence yet that attitudes about transportation are beginning to change in Texas's major cities. As part of a plan to redesign and reroute Interstate 45 in the heart of Houston, TxDOT -- that's right, the Texas Department of Transportation -- is proposing to tear down a short segment of the Pierce Elevated Freeway near downtown.
April 24, 2015
The “Backward Incentives” That Subsidize Job Sprawl
There's an interesting discussion going on over at Seattle Transit Blog over the region's policies toward suburban job growth.
April 23, 2015
Study: Drivers Much More Likely to Yield to Pedestrians on 20 MPH Streets
On streets where people drive fast, they are much less inclined to yield for pedestrians at unsignalized crosswalks, according to a new study published by the Transportation Research Board.
April 22, 2015
Tampa Cops’ “Bike Safety” Campaign Reeks of Racial Profiling
Over the weekend, the Tampa Bay Times blew the lid off a major police harassment story: Cops there issue more tickets to cyclists than in any other big Florida city, in the name of "bike safety," but what their targets appear to be most guilty of is bicycling while black.
April 21, 2015