Streetsblog USA
When Will America’s Street Design Bible Enter the 21st Century?
Cities around the country are trying out new street design treatments that put walking, biking, and transit first. What makes this new wave of street design all the more impressive is that city DOTs have to do it without much guidance from the nation’s transportation engineering establishment. The bibles of American street engineering still don’t … Continued
March 14, 2017
Columbus May Offer Free Transit Passes to All Downtown Workers
For the last year and a half, Columbus's Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District has been piloting a free transit pass program for 844 downtown workers. The share of workers in the program who commute via transit increased from 6 percent to 12 percent, and now it might be expanded to all 40,000 workers downtown.
March 13, 2017
As Fewer Kids Attend Neighborhood Schools, Transportation Challenges Intensify
The more kids get driven to school instead of walking, the more chaotic the drop-offs and pick-ups become. Greater Greater Washington's Matthew Kohler notes that the rise of school choice policies adds a whole new wrinkle, as students shift from neighborhood schools within walking distance to schools farther away.
March 10, 2017
American Bike-Share Is Growing Quickly — In a Handful of Cities (Not Denver)
Americans made 28 million trips on bike share last year. But the large majority of ridership comes from just a few large cities that have made major investments.
March 9, 2017
Why Cities Are Starting to Decriminalize Fare Evasion
With renewed public attention on the excessive criminalization of poor people and people of color, some transit agencies and law enforcement officials are reevaluating their fare evasion policies.
March 9, 2017
Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network
Bike advocates from all over the country are in Washington right now for the League of American Bicyclists' annual Bike Summit. Among other things, it's a chance for out-of-towners like Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland to appreciate the city's progress on bike infrastructure.
March 8, 2017
Truck Crash on Freeway Paralyzes Traffic. Seattle Times: Ditch the Bike Lanes!
Last month, a truck crashed on a major Seattle freeway, paralyzing traffic for miles. The real culprit, according to the paper's editorial board? Bike lanes.
March 7, 2017
It’s Parking Madness Time — Send Us Your Parking Disasters!
It's March and that means it's Parking Madness season at Streetsblog. Today we're launching our fifth annual tournament in search of North America's worst parking blight, and we're switching things up a little.
March 6, 2017
How Engineering Standards for Cars Endanger People Crossing the Street
At the Landmark Interchange by Fenway Park in Boston, people trying to walk across the street sometimes have to wait as long as two minutes for a signal. And that, says Northeastern University Civil Engineering Professor Peter Furth, is dangerous.
March 6, 2017
The Trouble With Uber
It's been a bad few weeks for Uber, with CEO Travis Kalanick recently caught on tape in a shouting match with a driver over the company's diminishing pay. Joe Cortright at City Observatory says that beyond the public meltdown, there are a growing number of signs that Uber's business model just isn't sustainable.
March 3, 2017
