Angie Schmitt
Recent Posts
What Explains the Gender Gap in Walking?
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While infrastructure matters a great deal, not enough emphasis has been placed on other types of barriers facing women and girls.
America’s Pedestrian Safety Crisis Isn’t Getting Any Better
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Pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed over the last five years. In 2017, nearly 6,000 people were killed while walking on American streets.
Snapping Together a Better Bus Stop
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American cities are discovering a way to quickly improve bus boarding using modular plastic pads.
A Brief History of How American Transportation Engineers Resisted Bike Lanes
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Try to picture American cities if they had started building world-class bike infrastructure en masse in the 1970s, instead of 40 years later. How much safer would our streets be today? How much more active would we be? How many more years would people have enjoyed instead of getting their lives cut short by traffic crashes or chronic cardiovascular disease?
Are American Cities Making Progress on Traffic Safety?
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In several cities, traffic fatalities fell much more sharply last year than in the nation as a whole. But it's too soon to draw conclusions.
Is the Hyperloop Taking Cities for a Ride?
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The Hyperloop has never carried human passengers. Yet officials signed off on a grant based on the promise of Cleveland-Chicago route in just three to five years.
Democracy Dies in… Bus Lanes?
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Advocates successfully got Montgomery County to consider adding bus lanes to its BRT plan. Anti-transit NIMBYs see a conspiracy.
How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction
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Adjusting meter prices increased the availability of spaces while reducing illegal parking.
The Environmentalist Blind Spot on Transportation
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Cheering for a few more electric cars while highway sprawl continues unabated is not going to solve the climate crisis.
The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion
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We wouldn't throw people in jail for shorting a parking meter $3. And we shouldn't do it for transit riders either.
When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby
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One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
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Montclair, New Jersey, is the latest American city to fall for the dangerous fiction that outlawing the act of walking while looking at a mobile device will make people safer.