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  • Bridging Bicycle Promotion and Emergency Response

    Mar 12, 2024, 7:24 pm By Dutch Cycling Embassy
    Editor Note: As Streetsblog readers are no doubt aware, city fire departments have sometimes been an impediment to the installation of protected bike lanes. They claim that reducing the width of the street slows response times and can cause issues for ladder…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Breathe Easy

    Mar 12, 2024, 12:52 am By Blake Aued
    Creating low-traffic neighborhoods creates health benefits that are 100 times greater than the cost of implementing them, according to a London study. (The Guardian) Companies have wasted $50 billion trying to develop self-driving cars that could’ve been…
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  • Letter from Minneapolis: The Legacy of Highway Construction

    Mar 12, 2024, 12:02 am By Joe Harrington
    This piece originally appeared on Streets.mn. Cities in the United States underwent major surgery between 1940 and 1970 to make way for the construction of the interstate highway system. In the Twin Cities, highway construction displaced 30,000 residents, many…
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  • Peter Flax: ‘Cyclist Strength Comes from Unity’

    Mar 12, 2024, 12:02 am By Streetsblog
    If there is one person who embodies the sport, passion, utility and exhilaration of cycling, it is Peter Flax. He’s not only been pedaling around since growing up in the New York suburbs, but as a longtime bike writer and the former editor of Bicycling,…
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  • How Many People Does Car Culture Kill, Exactly?

    Mar 11, 2024, 6:44 pm By Streetsblog
    Sustainable transportation advocates know all the stats about how many people die in car crashes on global roads every year. But what about all the deaths and injuries that car culture causes — not to mention all the other ways it diminishes and destroys…
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  • Find Out How Much Your State Would Benefit From Cutting Car Travel

    Mar 11, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
    Advocates have a powerful new tool in the fight to reduce driving: a new calculator that shows exactly how much states would benefit if residents drove less. Analysts at climate think-tank RMI have developed a new widget that shows, in just a few clicks, how…
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  • Business Is Booming for Monday’s Headlines

    Mar 11, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    Every recent, reliable study ever done on the economic impact of bike lanes shows that they’re neutral or beneficial for local businesses’ bottom lines. The fact that business owners usually oppose them may be an artifact of failed efforts to compete with…
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  • Friday’s Headlines Gotta Keep ‘Em Separated

    Mar 8, 2024, 12:52 am By Blake Aued
    A study out of Cambridge, Massachusetts found that separated bike lanes significantly increase the number of cyclists and reduce driving. (Momentum Mag) Joe Biden made the bipartisan infrastructure law a major part of his State of the Union address. (CBS News)…
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  • Commentary: The Street Fight Over SUVs in Paris

    Mar 7, 2024, 6:13 pm By Jason Henderson
    By now most Streetsblog readers have probably read that last month voters in Paris took the global street fight over SUVs to a new level. In a bellwether referendum, the “price to park a heavier, bulky, polluting vehicle,” in other words SUVs, was tripled…
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  • Calif. Claims Adding Miles of New Lanes to a Freeway Is… Not Expanding the Freeway

    Mar 7, 2024, 5:16 pm By Joe Linton
    After the community caught Metro and Caltrans defying federal clean air law, Metro radically pared back its 710 Freeway expansion plans. In 2018, Metro approved a $6 billion plan that would have added at least forty new lane-miles to the lower 710 Freeway.…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

    Mar 7, 2024, 2:52 pm By Jeff Wood
    This week we’re featuring a one-on-one conversation between Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu. They chat about how transit agencies can get a better handle on how riders and non-riders alike feel about their service.…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Mean Less Than Zero

    Mar 7, 2024, 12:38 am By Blake Aued
    More than 6,100 zero-emissions buses were on the road or on order in 2023, up 12 percent from the previous year. (Smart Cities Dive) The Biden administration is looking into using Tesla-style chargers, which have been adopted by many automakers, as it seeks to…
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  • How Tech Can Find America’s Missing Bus Shelters

    Mar 7, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
    Some mid-sized cities are struggling to deliver bus shelters to the marginalized neighborhoods that need them most, according to a new study that also suggested a new method by which agencies and advocates can identify other ways to make our transit networks…
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  • L.A. Voters Mandate City Implement Sustainable Transportation Improvements Whenever It Repaves

    Mar 6, 2024, 1:32 pm By Joe Linton
    Yesterday, Los Angeles City voters approved the Healthy Streets L.A. ballot initiative – Measure HLA – seen as a referendum on the city’s multimodal future. The final vote count is still pending, and could take weeks as California continues to count late…
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  • The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Pandemic Rise in Distracted Driving

    Mar 6, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
    Cell phone use behind the wheel skyrocketed during the pandemic, even among drivers whose their insurance companies rewarded them for keeping phones stashed — but even more troubling is how much more distracted driving will occur if America doesn’t reduce…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Wonder, Where Have You Gone, Amtrak Joe?

    Mar 6, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    “Amtrak Joe” Biden promised us a “second railroad revolution,” but his commitment to rail has been underwhelming compared to federal spending on roads. (New Republic) In Amtrak news, more trains are being added in the Northeast Corridor between…
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  • An Update on California’s High-Speed Rail Project

    Mar 5, 2024, 8:45 pm By Roger Rudick
    Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content.…
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  • American-Dutch Engineer Calls Out Root Problem with American DOTs

    Mar 5, 2024, 5:12 pm By Roger Rudick
    Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. Steffen…
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  • Is the Environmental Racism of the Past Repeating Itself in Buffalo’s Expressway Project?

    Mar 5, 2024, 10:00 am By Lanessa Owens-Chaplin
    Editor’s note: this article originally appeared on the New York Civil Liberties Union and is republished with permission. We share it as an object lesson to other U.S. communities considering comparable highway cap projects. Beginning in 2018, the NYCLU and…
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  • All The Ways That Cars Harm Our Communities (Well, Almost All…)

    Mar 5, 2024, 12:01 am By Kea Wilson
    Car domination is directly responsible for at least one in every 34 deaths around the world, a new analysis finds — but that’s just the very visible tip of a very large iceberg of the many ways that automobile dependence makes life worse for everyone even…
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