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Angie Schmitt

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Traffic signals that maximize crossing time for pedestrians remain the exception, not the rule, in American cities. Photo: District DOT
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Making Traffic Signals Fair for Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 20, 2018 | No Comments
Traffic engineering conventions deprive people on foot of sufficient time to cross the street. We should change that.
A transportation project as superficial as the Kendall Highway deserves the mockery dished out by Transit Alliance Miami on its sexy highway site.
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Miami’s Mindless Highway Addiction Gets the Mockery It Deserves

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 19, 2018 | No Comments
A 15-mile highway extension would bring sprawl to the edge of the Everglades and drain resources that could be used for transit.
I-81 has been called Syracuse's Berlin Wall. Photo via Make Communities
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Building Highways Made Racial Segregation Worse. Can Removing Them Undo That Legacy?

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 8, 2018 | No Comments
The teardown of I-81 in Syracuse presents an opportunity to rebuild Syracuse in a way that rights past injustices.
Photo: City of Seattle
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Taking Stock of Dockless Bike-Share in Seattle

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 7, 2018 | No Comments
The most interesting experiment with dockless bike-share in an American city right now is happening in Seattle.
Panels from "City Block," by Christopher Franceschelli.

The Streetsblog Guide to Children’s Books

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 5, 2018 | No Comments
Indoctrinate your kids into the joys of buses, bikes, and car-free streets!
A design guide developed by Phoenix's Complete Streets Advisory Board would make bike lanes a default feature on many streets, but city officials haven't approved it. Photo:  Sean Sweat/Twitter
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Fed Up With an Apathetic City Hall, Phoenix Complete Streets Volunteers Resign En Masse

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 4, 2018 | No Comments
Seven members of Phoenix's Complete Streets Advisory Board resigned in disgust this week, frustrated by the lack of action from city officials to make streets safer for walking and biking.
Photo: Minesweeper/Wikimedia Commons
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Trump Admin Snuffs Out Climate Progress at U.S. DOT

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 4, 2018 | No Comments
The Trump administration has eliminated an Obama-era rule to encourage transportation policies that reduce the threat of catastrophic climate change.
Wayne County Executive Warren Evans at the end of a 2.5 hour bus commute. Photo: Warren Evans
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What Happened When a Detroit Politician Rode the Bus to Work

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 1, 2018 | No Comments
Two painfully slow bus rides, a hike through knee-deep grass, and a 2.5-hour one-way commute.
San Francisco's new Vision Zero fire truck looks much like previous models, but it is 10 inches shorter and has a much narrower turning radius. Photo: Roger Rudick
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How Fire Departments Stopped Worrying and Embraced Safer Street Design

By Angie Schmitt | May 31, 2018 | No Comments
As Portland built out bike lanes and pedestrian safety measures, fears about slower response times did not materialize.
Protesters oppose Dayton's crackdown on panhandling, which was guised as a pedestrian safety measure. Photo:  Social Alternative Dayton
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Nope, Harassing Panhandlers Isn’t a Pedestrian Safety Plan

By Angie Schmitt | May 30, 2018 | No Comments
The criminalization of walking continues in Dayton, Ohio.
Photo:  Diriye Amey/Wikimedia Commons
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Madrid Moves to Boot Car Traffic Out of Its City Center

By Angie Schmitt | May 29, 2018 | No Comments
A major city center without cars? Madrid is going to come close sometime in the next year, says the administration of Mayor Manuela Carmena.
The self-driving system detected Elaine Herzberg six seconds before impact, but Uber had tuned the emergency braking feature to be too insensitive to respond in time. Image: NTSB
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How Uber’s Self-Driving System Failed to Brake and Avoid Killing Elaine Herzberg

By Angie Schmitt | May 25, 2018 | No Comments
The National Transportation Safety Board is out with a preliminary report into how an Uber car in self-driving mode struck and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, this March.
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