Is Wisconsin Lying About Traffic Counts to Promote $1.2 Billion Highway?
Feb 27, 2015, 11:12 am By Angie SchmittWisDOT uses traffic projections produced by the South East Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission…The Remarkable Drop in Car Commuting to Downtown Seattle
Feb 26, 2015, 11:26 am By Angie Schmitt
As Seattle has invested more in transit and developed housing downtown, the share of workers who…Codes and Roads: Why We’re Still Building Sprawl
Feb 26, 2015, 10:02 am By Angie SchmittAt CityLab, Alana Samuels posed a great question: Why are developers still building sprawl? Even as…The “Urban Renewal Mindset” Persists in St. Louis
Feb 25, 2015, 11:18 am By Angie Schmitt
This building would be razed to make way for a new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency campus in…Top Ten Ways to Hate on Pedestrians
Feb 25, 2015, 10:40 am By Angie SchmittSo there you stand. The Gatekeeper. Tasked with defending the great bastion of Motordom and…In Major Shift, Central Cities Edging Out Sprawl in Competition for Jobs
Feb 24, 2015, 11:03 am By Angie Schmitt
Dramatic reversal: Jobs are moving back downtown. Graph: City Observatory Job sprawl — picture…Some Surprising Results of a Market-Pricing Parking Experiment
Feb 24, 2015, 10:32 am By Angie SchmittParking is one of those things everyone in Berkeley complains about (ironic for a city that is…You Can Make a More Effective Bus System for Cheap, But It’s Not Easy
Feb 23, 2015, 11:21 am By Angie Schmitt
Houston’s bus system redesign forced some tough decisions. Click to enlarge. Map: Human Transit…Despite Media Hysteria, Transit is Safer than Driving
Feb 23, 2015, 10:38 am By Angie Schmittby Jonathan Krall The media pays a lot more attention to bicycle and pedestrian fatalities than it…50 Years After a Highway Revolt, a Quiet Surrender
Feb 20, 2015, 11:11 am By Angie Schmitt
Can cities that won highway fights two generations ago still defeat destructive road projects today?…America’s Heartless Transportation System at Work
Feb 19, 2015, 11:08 am By Angie Schmitt
Fedora Henderson, 31, was struck from behind and killed by a snow plow driver earlier this week in…Freeway-Style Signs Send Drivers the Wrong Message
Feb 19, 2015, 10:58 am By Angie Schmittby Sean Emerson Signs above intersections can help drivers find their way. But large, freeway-style…Portland Sued Over Faded Crosswalk Where Driver Killed Two People
Feb 18, 2015, 11:00 am By Angie Schmitt
The family of a young woman who was killed trying to cross a Portland road is suing the city for not…Why the Human Scale Matters
Feb 18, 2015, 10:34 am By Angie SchmittHazel Borys, Better! Cities & Towns This weekend, I again watched The Human Scale, a film from…High-Rises Don’t Cause Traffic; Parking Lots Do
Feb 17, 2015, 10:54 am By Angie Schmitt
Traffic is worse than it used to be in Austin, but you can’t blame rising density. Image via Car…Seattle’s Sound Transit Hostage Situation
Feb 17, 2015, 10:41 am By Angie SchmittTalk like this pretty much sends me into a frothing rage: “In order to get, you got to give.…Are Engineers Allowed to Speak Up for Reforming Their Profession?
Feb 13, 2015, 11:38 am By Angie Schmitt
In a case that has attracted the attention of the Union of Concerned Scientists, well-known and…How State DOTs Waste Money Bailing Out Local Planning Mistakes
Feb 12, 2015, 11:02 am By Angie Schmitt
Northfield, Minnesota, built a school in a disconnected pastoral setting, then found out it was a…Florida DOT Embraces Buffered Bike Lanes and Narrower Lanes
Feb 12, 2015, 10:41 am By Angie SchmittRoadway Design Bulletin 14-7 is a very dry sounding title for a very important policy shift at the…Upending the Assumption That Transportation Policy Is All About “Mobility”
Feb 11, 2015, 11:11 am By Angie Schmitt
Chuck Marohn says Minnesota DOT needs to adopt a new paradigm focused on reducing car dependence.…
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