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Skateboard Bans: The “Get Off My Lawn” of Transportation Policies
The municipal skateboard ban is the "get off my lawn" of transportation policies.
July 1, 2014
Oregon Study Finds 94 Percent of Cyclists Stop at Red Lights
Contrary to lawless cyclist mythos, a study finds that nearly all cyclists in four Oregon cities stop for red lights.
June 30, 2014
Great City Parks Aren’t Surrounded By Suburban Roads
There's nothing quite like a great urban park. But what makes a park great?
June 27, 2014
The Last Thing Atlanta Needs Is a Billion Dollar Interchange Expansion
At $950 million, rebuilding and expanding the interchange of Georgia 400 and Interstate 285 in suburban Atlanta will be the costliest road project in the state's history.
June 26, 2014
NTSB Recommends Truck Side Guards to Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists
22-year-old Sylvia Bingham was riding her bike to work in September, 2009, when she was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer driver in Cleveland. The driver, who was later convicted of vehicular homicide, never stopped and claimed he didn't realize he'd hit the recent Yale graduate.
June 25, 2014
How Cars Constrain Freedom
When cars were first introduced, writes Jason Segedy at Notes from the Underground, they appeared to signify a tremendous advance for personal mobility and freedom. But Segedy -- who heads Akron's metropolitan planning agency, AMATS -- notes that over time, what has become a near-total reliance on cars for transportation has infringed on our freedom in important and sometimes difficult-to-recognize ways:
June 24, 2014
Pittsburgh and Bill Peduto Get Cracking on Downtown Bike Lanes
Big things are happening in Pittsburgh.
June 23, 2014
San Diego Added 39 Miles of Buffered Bike Lanes in the Last Year
San Diego has a deserved reputation for being not the friendliest place to ride a bike in the state of California.
June 20, 2014
The Case for Taxing Oil Before It Reaches the Pump
In the weeks leading up to the impending insolvency of America's transportation funding source, members of Congress have come up with some truly outlandish ideas just to avoid raising the gas tax.
June 18, 2014
What Else Could Cities Do With the Space Devoted to Cars?
Steve Mouzon's aerial comparison of an Atlanta interchange to the center of Florence has a lot of people thinking about the sheer amount of space that gets sacrificed to make room for cars in our cities.
June 17, 2014