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Angie Schmitt

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Safety Officials to Cities: Stop Buying Such Huge Trucks

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 10, 2018 | No Comments
Some strategies to make large vehicles safer in urban environments and save lives.
Photo:  Union of Concerned Scientists
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Why Are We Still Waiting for Electric Buses?

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 7, 2018 | No Comments
In China, fleets of super-efficient electric buses roam cities. In the U.S. we're just getting started.
Photo:  Gilpe/Wikimedia Commons
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Free Public Transit! (Sorry, It’s in Luxembourg)

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 7, 2018 | No Comments
The movement for free transit is gaining ground in Europe — and, maybe, here.
Image: All for Transportation
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Tampa Voters Supported Transit Measure — But Sore Losers Want to Overturn it

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2018 | No Comments
Yet again, there's a Koch brothers connection.
Freshman New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing a "new Green Deal." Here's what it should include. Photo:  Kerri Evelyn Harris/Flickr/CC

A Green New Deal? Here Are Some Suggestions

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 4, 2018 | No Comments
If the "Green New Deal" only focuses on reducing emissions from cars and trucks, it won't go far enough.
Detroit's downtown parking lots via  Data Driven Detroit
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Detroit Hurt By Too Much Parking

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 3, 2018 | No Comments
Just two families own a huge portion of downtown's Detroit's surprisingly profitable surface parking, a Free Press investigation finds.
Photo:  Better Buses MSP
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Trump Administration Finally Releasing Transit Cash

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 29, 2018 | No Comments
Trump's Federal Transit Administration is finally releasing long-ago-approved funding for major projects.
Photo: Gateway Program Development Corporation
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Trump’s Infrastructure Brinkmanship Threatens NY

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 29, 2018 | No Comments
Donald Trump has been threatening to derail the nation's largest metro economy as leverage to get his border wall.
"Spaghetti Junction" in downtown Louisville. Photo: Ohio River Bridges Project via  Broken Sidewalk
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Kentucky Spent $1.3 Billion on a Highway No One Wants

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 28, 2018 | No Comments
Two years after it opened, traffic is down 50 percent on Louisville's new $1.3 billion highway bridge.
Photo:  Seattle Streetcar
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Streetcars and Development: It’s Complicated

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 27, 2018 | No Comments
A new study finds that modern streetcar systems are not great as engines of development.
Photo:  Sciennes Primary School
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The European Answer to School-Drop-Off Chaos

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 27, 2018 | No Comments
"School Streets" prohibit cars on the roadways surrounding schools. They encourage walking and biking. And they reduce crashes.
This stretch of State Street in Harrisburg is the most dangerous in the country. Photo: Google Maps
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A Fix for the Most Dangerous Street in America

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 26, 2018 | No Comments
Harrisburg's State Street is insanely dangerous. The city has a good plan to fix it. Will the state stand in the way?
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