Angie Schmitt
Recent Posts
Safety Officials to Cities: Stop Buying Such Huge Trucks
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Some strategies to make large vehicles safer in urban environments and save lives.
Why Are We Still Waiting for Electric Buses?
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In China, fleets of super-efficient electric buses roam cities. In the U.S. we're just getting started.
Free Public Transit! (Sorry, It’s in Luxembourg)
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The movement for free transit is gaining ground in Europe — and, maybe, here.
Tampa Voters Supported Transit Measure — But Sore Losers Want to Overturn it
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Yet again, there's a Koch brothers connection.
A Green New Deal? Here Are Some Suggestions
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If the "Green New Deal" only focuses on reducing emissions from cars and trucks, it won't go far enough.
Detroit Hurt By Too Much Parking
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Just two families own a huge portion of downtown's Detroit's surprisingly profitable surface parking, a Free Press investigation finds.
Trump Administration Finally Releasing Transit Cash
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Trump's Federal Transit Administration is finally releasing long-ago-approved funding for major projects.
Trump’s Infrastructure Brinkmanship Threatens NY
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Donald Trump has been threatening to derail the nation's largest metro economy as leverage to get his border wall.
Kentucky Spent $1.3 Billion on a Highway No One Wants
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Two years after it opened, traffic is down 50 percent on Louisville's new $1.3 billion highway bridge.
Streetcars and Development: It’s Complicated
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A new study finds that modern streetcar systems are not great as engines of development.
The European Answer to School-Drop-Off Chaos
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"School Streets" prohibit cars on the roadways surrounding schools. They encourage walking and biking. And they reduce crashes.
A Fix for the Most Dangerous Street in America
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Harrisburg's State Street is insanely dangerous. The city has a good plan to fix it. Will the state stand in the way?