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What's keeping cities from rolling out changes like this faster? NACTO wants to know. Photo: Nathan Roseberry (CDOT) via NACTO/Flickr
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NACTO Wants to Find Out How Cities Can Design Better Streets, Faster

By Stephen Miller | Jun 8, 2017 | No Comments
The National Association of City Transportation Officials, representing more than 50 urban transportation departments across the United States, is known for street design guides that prioritize walking, bicycling, and transit. Now the organization is turning its attention to the nuts-and-bolts of how city bureaucracies can implement these designs in a timely manner, so meaningful change can happen within our lifetimes.
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Can Algorithms Design Safer Intersections?

By Stephen Miller | Jun 7, 2017 | No Comments
Eventually, maybe, but we already know how to redesign streets to save lives.
Photo: Steve Crane/Flickr
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Male Cyclists Need to Stop the “Macho Nonsense” Directed at Female Riders

By Stephen Miller | Jun 6, 2017 | No Comments
In the United States, women account for only a quarter of bike trips. There are many possible factors for the discrepancy: the lack of bike infrastructure, social pressures during adolescence, and complex trip patterns play a role. But one of the big things keeping women out of the saddle is that when they bike they're harassed. All the time.
Miami Beach hired Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid to design a parking garage. The design was scrapped last year because of its high cost, but the city -- facing an affordable housing crisis -- hasn't reconsidered its policy of promoting car storage. Image: Zaha Hadid Architects
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Miami Beach Wants Affordable Housing, But Won’t Remove Parking to Get It

By Stephen Miller | Jun 5, 2017 | No Comments
Putting housing on top of parking garages, rather than replacing car storage with housing, would be a missed opportunity for walkable Miami Beach.
The original plan for the Potomac Street protected bike lane (above) is gone after Baltimore's mayor decided to give in to NIMBYs.
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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Caves to NIMBYs, Hacks Away at Protected Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jun 5, 2017 | No Comments
Pugh altered a bikeway as it was being constructed, endangering the physical safety of people on bikes to appease parking-obsessed complainers.
Temporary bike markings on Live Oak Street. Photo: Sam McNeill via Cite
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Urban Designers Take a Do-It-Yourself Approach to Taming Houston’s Extra-Wide Streets

By Stephen Miller | Jun 1, 2017 | No Comments
Impatient at the slow rate of change on Houston's streets, advocates and urban designers took it upon themselves to tame some of their city's wide roads — and are promising to come back for a second round soon.
"Are you here illegally?" is not a question that Twin Cities transit police are supposed to ask. Image: Ricardo Levins Morales/Facebook
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Riding Transit Should Never Be a Pathway to Deportation

By Stephen Miller | Jun 1, 2017 | No Comments
A fare inspection on a Twin Cities light rail line led to ICE deporting Ariel Vences-Lopez.
This man is making streets more dangerous, according to the Seattle Times. Photo: Tobi Gaulke/Flickr
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Blaming People for Wearing Black Wins the Prize for Anti-Pedestrian Idiocy

By Stephen Miller | May 31, 2017 | No Comments
It takes a special kind of callousness to say that pedestrians are making city streets dangerous by wearing black. And yet, that's exactly what the Seattle Times did this weekend.
A re-election campaign ad last year for Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez promised "more rail lines." Now, he seems more enamored with self-driving cars. Image: Carlos Gimenez/YouTube
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Miami’s Future Should Be Transit and Walking, But the Mayor’s Focused on Robot Cars

By Stephen Miller | May 26, 2017 | No Comments
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez is in charge of executing an ambitious transit expansion plan — but lately, in a spectacular example of missing the point, he's been talking up autonomous cars as the ultimate transportation solution.
Nashville's busiest bus routes are in line for more frequent service and transit-only lanes under the city's new action plan. Photo: Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry Just Unveiled Her Blueprint to Fast-Track People-Friendly Streets

By Stephen Miller | May 25, 2017 | No Comments
Local leaders realize they can't accommodate more growth with an outdated, cars-first approach, so Mayor Megan Barry released an action plan yesterday that lays out an ambitious agenda to improve conditions for walking, bicycling, and transit.
Linear transportation routes carrying riders who walk the last few blocks from their origins and to their destinations. Sound familiar? Image: Uber
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Uber’s Latest Feature Reinvents the Wheels on the Bus

By Stephen Miller | May 24, 2017 | No Comments
The company hopes that by avoiding looping through congested Manhattan to pick up and drop off multiple people, it will make trips faster and easier — but Uber is trying to solve a problem that buses solved generations ago.
Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr
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Trump’s Budget Is a Disaster for Transit, and His Infrastructure Plan Is a Gift to Wall Street

By Stephen Miller | May 24, 2017 | No Comments
The Trump administration's fiscal year 2018 budget, released yesterday, includes severe cuts to federal transit funding. Next stop: Congress, which will consider the president's proposal before it passes a budget over the summer.
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