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DC Police Wrongly Presume Injured Cyclist Guilty: “C’mon, You’re a Biker”
How many times have you read about someone who was injured while walking or biking, only to be found at fault by law enforcement? And in those cases, how many times did police blame the victim based on nothing more than self-serving testimony from the driver? That's what happened to Zach T. in Washington, DC, this spring, but thanks to his own persistence and detective work, he was able to prove the driver's account wrong and obtain some measure of delayed justice.
June 28, 2013
Walking With Your Baby on Some of the Most Dangerous Streets in America
Miami, and Florida in general, is a notoriously dangerous place to walk. The top four most dangerous cities for pedestrians are all in the Sunshine State, according to Transportation for America, with Miami, a city of wide roads and narrow sidewalks, coming in at number four.
June 27, 2013
The Problem With Park-and-Rides
There it is, at your typical American suburban transit stop: a parking lot -- a free one, probably.
June 26, 2013
Survey: People Hate a Gas Tax Hike, Unless It Pays for Something
The federal gas tax hasn't been raised in decades, but the idea of doing something about it seems like a political nonstarter in Washington because everyone knows how much people hate higher gas taxes. Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions says maybe public sentiment is a little more nuanced than that, if you look at a recent survey by the Mineta Transportation Institute:
June 25, 2013
Fossil Fuel-Funded Foundation Not Very Good at Predicting Rail Ridership
This is going to come as a shock, but counting the number of passengers on a new transit line the first week it opens isn't that great a way to predict whether that line will be successful in the long term.
June 24, 2013
Why Isn’t There a Massive Civil Response to Traffic Violence?
Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland is having a contemplative moment. In rapid succession over the last few days, he's seen so much evidence of the damage that traffic inflicts: a seriously injured cyclist in Portland, a new study linking exhaust inhalation to autism, the death of journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a Los Angeles car crash. The list goes on.
June 20, 2013
“We’re a Highway Department, Not a Bicycle Department”
The anecdote we're about to relay happened in St. Louis County, but it could have occurred in almost any community between New York and Portland. Alex Ihnen at NextSTL caught local transportation officials admitting what generally goes unspoken:
June 19, 2013
Remembering All That Was Lost to an Interchange in Miami
Miami's Overtown neighborhood was once known as "the Harlem of the South." In this historic black neighborhood, legends like Nat King Cole and Billie Holiday would play to big crowds late into the night.
June 18, 2013
Parking Crater Prevention: Which Cities Are Doing It Right?
Does your city have a parking crater problem? If so, it's probably time for an ordinance prohibiting property owners from demolishing buildings and turning them into parking lots.
June 17, 2013
Raquel Nelson Finally Cleared of Homicide Charges, Pleads to Jaywalking
The long legal ordeal is finally over for Raquel Nelson, the mother who faced three years in prison after her four-year-old son was killed by an impaired driver in suburban Atlanta.
June 14, 2013