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Angie Schmitt

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Around the world, women and girls walk less than men and boys. Graph: Stanford
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What Explains the Gender Gap in Walking?

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 8, 2018 | No Comments
While infrastructure matters a great deal, not enough emphasis has been placed on other types of barriers facing women and girls.
Pedestrian deaths have increased 25 percent over the last five years. Graph: GHSA
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America’s Pedestrian Safety Crisis Isn’t Getting Any Better

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 6, 2018 | No Comments
Pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed over the last five years. In 2017, nearly 6,000 people were killed while walking on American streets.
Oakland built a bus stop platform on Telegraph Avenue using modular plastic components. Photo:  TransitCenter
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Snapping Together a Better Bus Stop

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 5, 2018 | No Comments
American cities are discovering a way to quickly improve bus boarding using modular plastic pads.
Street design guidance from AASHTO has been eclipsed by the work of American cities. Image: AASHTO
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A Brief History of How American Transportation Engineers Resisted Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 5, 2018 | No Comments
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?
Changes in traffic fatalities in selected cities with Vision Zero policies (rolling three-year averages indexed to 2010-12). The black line is the national trend.
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Are American Cities Making Progress on Traffic Safety?

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 1, 2018 | No Comments
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.
This image, from a Hyperloop promotional video, shows how the above-ground tube might look. Video still:  Hyperloop TT
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Is the Hyperloop Taking Cities for a Ride?

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 27, 2018 | No Comments
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.
Center-running bus lanes on Route 29 as proposed in the "Better BRT" concept. Image: Sean Emerson and Sebastian Smoot via GGW

Democracy Dies in… Bus Lanes?

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 26, 2018 | No Comments
Advocates successfully got Montgomery County to consider adding bus lanes to its BRT plan. Anti-transit NIMBYs see a conspiracy.
As parking rates increased, tickets and fines for illegal parking decreased. Chart: City of Boston
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How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 26, 2018 | No Comments
Adjusting meter prices increased the availability of spaces while reducing illegal parking.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, shown here announcing a $9 billion toll road expansion program, is not an environmental hero. Photo: Maryland Department of Transportation/Twitter
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The Environmentalist Blind Spot on Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 23, 2018 | No Comments
Cheering for a few more electric cars while highway sprawl continues unabated is not going to solve the climate crisis.
Photo:  BeyondDC/Flickr
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The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 22, 2018 | No Comments
We wouldn't throw people in jail for shorting a parking meter $3. And we shouldn't do it for transit riders either.
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When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 21, 2018 | No Comments
One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
Rather than address the systemic threats to pedestrian safety, it's easier for some cities to blame victims. Photo: Don Kostelec
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American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 20, 2018 | No Comments
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.
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