Streetsblog USA
The Traffic Safety Establishment Needs to Take More Responsibility for Soaring Pedestrian Deaths
America's traffic safety establishment has long been focused on "behavioral" explanations for traffic deaths — things like seat belt usage and drunk driving. By ignoring the role of the high-speed, car-centric transportation systems they've created, they don't have to face their own culpability.
April 6, 2017
3 Steps to Fight Street Harassment
Cat calls, patronizing enjoinders to "smile," and more aggressive forms of harassment can make walking or biking uncomfortable or threatening. Katie Matchett, an urban planner who writes about pedestrian issues at Where the Sidewalk Starts, says it's up to everyone — men and women — to combat it.
April 6, 2017
Parking Madness Final Four: Atlanta vs. Denver
This semi-final pits central areas in two major American cities against each other. Only one will have a shot at everlasting shame in the championship match.
April 5, 2017
Memphis’s Spectacular Street Experiments Moving Toward Permanence
It's taken a few years, but Memphians' hands-on experimentation with their streets is starting to pay off in permanent improvements.
April 4, 2017
Atlanta’s I-85 Collapse — Another “Carmaggedon” That Wasn’t
When a heavily-traveled section of Atlanta's I-85 collapsed in a fire last week, the traffic predictions were dire. But the highway disruption appears to be another case of "carmaggedon" that never materialized — and that should inform the way we plan our transportation systems.
April 4, 2017
Parking Madness: St. Louis vs. Denver
Denver will make it to the final four if voters decide this terrible parking crater next to downtown is worse than its opponent in St. Louis.
April 3, 2017
The GOP Case for Cutting Federal Transit Funding Isn’t Principled — It’s Tribalism
They say federal funds shouldn't support local projects, but highway spending mainly facilitates local trips too.
April 3, 2017
The Today Show Completely Botched Its Coverage of America’s Pedestrian Safety Crisis
They say you should never let a crisis go to waste. Well, there's a life-threatening crisis happening for people who walk in this country, but our national media is wasting this chance to inform the public how to fix it.
March 31, 2017
Parking Madness: San Bernardino vs. Atlanta
The second round action continues in Parking Madness as we hunt for the most appalling parking craters next to transit stations.
March 30, 2017
Trump Moves to Immediately Gut Transit Expansion and TIGER Funding
Waiting for fiscal year 2018 isn't fast enough for the Trump administration to cut transit funding. The White House wants to slash transit expansion and TIGER grants immediately.
March 30, 2017
