Streetsblog USA
How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction
Adjusting meter prices increased the availability of spaces while reducing illegal parking.
February 26, 2018
The Environmentalist Blind Spot on Transportation
Cheering for a few more electric cars while highway sprawl continues unabated is not going to solve the climate crisis.
February 23, 2018
The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion
We wouldn't throw people in jail for shorting a parking meter $3. And we shouldn't do it for transit riders either.
February 22, 2018
When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby
One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
February 21, 2018
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
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.
February 20, 2018
The Bus Not Taken: How Easy Auto Loans Reinforced Car Dependence and Killed Transit Ridership
Easy credit added 5 million cars to American roads in 2015 — a blow to transit agencies and a precarious situation for borrowers.
February 16, 2018
Seattle Cut Car Commuting Downtown While Adding 60,000 Jobs
Don't let anyone tell you a healthier economy is inextricably linked to more driving.
February 15, 2018
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
By almost any quantifiable safety metric, the helmet fixation has failed. People bike at low rates in the U.S. compared to international peers, and suffer higher injury and fatality rates per mile of cycling.
February 14, 2018
Suburban Segregationist Brooks Patterson Breaks Up Detroit’s Hard-Won Transit Coalition
Representing the region's primarily white northern suburbs, Patterson is blocking a transit measure that would improve job access for black Detroiters.
February 14, 2018
Former California Mayor Calls New Bikeway “Urban Rape”
"The rape will not be performed by a male penis, but by thousands of inanimate bicycles guided by individuals who will have absolutely no understanding of that precious tranquility they will be destroying," said former San Luis Obispo mayor Ken Schwartz.
February 9, 2018
