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London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Transportation Vision: Add a Million People While Cutting Traffic By 3 Million Miles Each Day
A new 25-year master plan clearly states that private cars are a problem in cities, and lays out an aggressive agenda to improve London for walking, bicycling, and transit.
June 22, 2017
The Science Is Clear: More Highways Equals More Traffic. Why Are DOTs Still Ignoring It?
Numerous studies have documented the phenomenon known as induced demand in transportation: Basically, if you build highway lanes, more drivers will come. And yet, transportation agencies rarely account for this effect when planning road projects.
June 21, 2017
A Tribute to Branden Klayko, Who Loved Louisville and Wanted His City to Be Its Best
We want to take a moment to honor the life of Branden Klayko, an architect and Louisville native who founded the local blog Broken Sidewalk, which was part of the Streetsblog Network for years.
June 20, 2017
Highway Planners Pause to Consider the Effect of Road Widening on Detroit Neighborhoods
Nowhere has the effect of highways been more obviously detrimental than Detroit, where the overbuilt freeway system helped hollow out one of America’s largest cities. Michigan DOT has agreed to make a highway expansion project less awful.
June 19, 2017
Virginia DOT Hopes People Will Enjoy Bicycling Next to a Noisy, Exhaust-Choked Freeway
When a bike path is added to a highway expansion project, it risks being an afterthought, resulting in a low-quality, high-stress route. Like this one, now in the works in Northern Virginia.
June 16, 2017
An Idea That Sticks: Another Plunger-Protected Bike Lane Goes Permanent
Tactical urbanism projects are prompting cities to improve the bike-riding environment.
June 16, 2017
Parking Reform Has Big Implications for Sustainable Transit — and for Ride-Hailing, Too
Cities have traditionally eliminated parking requirements to encourage walking, bicycling, and transit. But it can also aid the rise of on-demand car services, two top parking policy experts say.
June 15, 2017
Media Point to Deadly Suburban Speedways in North, South Carolina — Without Using ‘J’ Word
Newspapers in Greenville and Fayetteville examined hazardous conditions for local pedestrians -- and they did it without using the "J" word.
June 14, 2017
Judge Issues Restraining Order to Keep Baltimore Mayor From Erasing Protected Bike Lane
Pandering to NIMBYs, Catherine Pugh wants to rip out a protected bike lane that has been in the works for years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to design and build.
June 13, 2017
In Sprawling Areas, Can the Bus Become Anything Other Than a Lifeline for the Poor?
Transit shouldn't just be for marginalized groups. Though it may be a long time before it's seen as an essential public service for everyone in Burlington, some are making exactly that argument.
June 12, 2017
