Angie Schmitt
Recent Posts
New House Transportation Chair: ‘We Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel’
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Peter Defazio, the new chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, talks bikes, pedestrians and transit — and getting us off fossil fuel.
Seattle’s Viadoom: The ‘Carmageddon’ That Wasn’t
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We've seen this before: Freeways induce driving and when one closes people adapt their choices accordingly. There is no "carmageddon" after all.
New Study of E-Scooter Injuries Raises More Questions than it Answers
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The Journal of the American Medical Association is pushing for helmets, but the actual data is still open to interpretation.
Study: Uber and Lyft Caused U.S. Transit Decline
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Uber and Lyft have decreased bus ridership in San Francisco 12.7 percent since 2010, a new study estimates.
Biking Way up in Seattle During Highway Closure
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Biking has almost doubled along major corridors in Seattle as the city enters the fourth day of “Viadoom” — the highly publicized closure of State Route 99. Viadoom — or the “period of maximum constraint,” as city officials have called it was billed as a potentially paralyzing traffic nightmare. Monday began the three week period when […]
Engineering Group Takes on High Speed Limits
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One barrier to safer, more pedestrian friendly streets is slowing being dismantled.
Transit Systems Must Address Women's Concerns
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A new study shows women are about half as likely to use new rail service as men — especially if they express strong concerns about safety.
Six Ways the Media is Still Blaming the Victim
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Media tropes emphasize the victim's behavior when a driver hits a pedestrian or cyclist rather than systemic causes, a new study finds.
Can New Mobility Tech Disrupt Car Dependence?
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A new organization want to help cities use mobility tech to break cars' stranglehold on cities.
Local Bike Advocates: E-Scooters Are Game-Changing
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In Nashville, Kansas City and Baltimore, advocates raised a couple concerns. But they all say scooters seem to be meeting a real need.
Engineers to Pedestrians: No ‘Walk’ Signs for You!
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The traffic engineering profession says intersections with no "Walk" signal are a-okay. Even as pedestrian deaths soar.
Uber and Lyft Don’t Reduce Cars. Transit Does.
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Seattle is the only major city that really grew the number of car-free and car-light households in the last five years. It's also the only one that's really grown transit ridership.