John Cranley’s Cincinnati Streetcar Circus
Dec 5, 2013, 11:56 am By Angie Schmitt
The news out of Cincinnati continues to grow more absurd as Mayor John Cranley moves to kill a…Most New DC Walmarts Get Failing Grade as Urban Buildings
Dec 4, 2013, 10:49 am By Angie Schmitt
Walmart’s anxiously anticipated move into cities is well underway in our nation’s capital. The…Capitol Hill: Give to Streetsblog and Streetfilms and Enter to Win a New PUBLIC Bike
Dec 4, 2013, 10:40 am By Angie SchmittLast week, when everyone was getting all sappy over Thanksgiving, did you give thanks for…New Mayor Moves to “Pause” Construction of Cincinnati Streetcar
Dec 3, 2013, 11:14 am By Angie Schmitt
Yesterday was day one for the mayoral administration of John Cranley in Cincinnati, as well as a new…Scenes of Half-Empty Parking Lots on the Busiest Shopping Day of the Year
Dec 2, 2013, 11:11 am By Angie Schmitt
A WalMart in Ada, Oklahoma, on Black Friday. Photo: @fineplanner/Twitter America’s enormous,…Are “Artifically Low Speed Limits” Really Dangerous?
Dec 2, 2013, 10:51 am By Angie SchmittI just wrote a post about proponents of a higher speed limit on the Illinois Tollway claiming that…A Bus Rider’s Frustration With Transit Planners
Nov 27, 2013, 10:18 am By Angie Schmitt
Nick Magrino at Streets.mn describes what it’s like to ride the bus in the Minneapolis-St. Paul…Leah Treat: Portland Transportation Director Talks Road Funding Package
Nov 27, 2013, 10:04 am By Angie SchmittLeah Treat is starting to feel at home. It’s only been four months since Treat officially took the…Pennsylvania Transportation Bill a “Dramatic Win” for Biking and Walking
Nov 26, 2013, 10:55 am By Angie Schmitt
There’s a lot to like in the new $2.3 billion transportation package passed by the Pennsylvania…San Jose Removes Buffered Bike Lane — Says It Was Installed In Error
Nov 26, 2013, 10:25 am By Angie SchmittSan Jose has removed the buffered bike lane from Almaden. It had been supposedly striped as part of…Toll Roads Increasingly Put Taxpayers at Risk
Nov 25, 2013, 10:55 am By Angie Schmitt
Public-private partnerships, or P3s, are hailed these days as a way to deliver public services or…Bike Accommodation On CAHSR Trains
Nov 25, 2013, 10:40 am By Angie SchmittWhen California voters approved funding in 2008 for their high-speed rail project, one of the…The “Gentrification Paradox”
Nov 22, 2013, 12:01 pm By Angie Schmitt
Bill Lindeke at Twin City Sidewalks calls it the “gentrification paradox”: when urbanites…Biking Continues to have Bipartisan Appeal, Baffling D.C. Media
Nov 22, 2013, 11:22 am By Angie SchmittLast week we wrote that “biking and walking safety should be a bipartisan issue.” Today we got a…Why Free Black Friday Parking Is a Bad Idea
Nov 21, 2013, 10:44 am By Angie Schmitt
It can be hard for downtown retailers to compete with big box stores in the burbs. That’s why a…The Day Nearly Six Million People Rode the Subways
Nov 21, 2013, 10:30 am By Angie SchmittDue to a variety of circumstances yesterday, I had the opportunity to take five subway rides at…Who Would Benefit From Eliminating the Federal Gas Tax?
10:54am By Angie Schmitt
We wrote recently on Streetsblog Capitol Hill about a proposal by Republican members of Congress…Why is it so hard to just raise the federal (and state) gasoline excise tax?
10:43am By Angie SchmittGreater Greater Washington has an entry, “Topic of the week: No more federal gas tax?,” about a…Professional Rail Critics Hired to Weigh In on North Carolina Project
Tue 11:16am By Angie Schmitt
There is a certain class of “transportation expert” that does just one thing: poo-poos rail…Walkability, parking, and TDM influence whether you drive
Tue 10:48am By Angie Schmittby Stephen Crim Arlington has tried to reduce traffic by clustering development around transit and…
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