Annual Bike-Share Passes Now Cost Just $5 for Low-Income D.C. Residents
Cities all over the country have been experimenting with ways to make bike-share service accessible to people who don't have a credit card and about $100 to drop all at once on an annual membership.
April 14, 2016
A Big Opportunity to Reform the Vicious Cycle of Highway Expansion
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx made headlines recently with a speech about how America needs to rethink its approach to urban highways. But U.S. DOT's influence is limited. States have the real power when it comes spending federal transportation funds, however, and a lot of states are still stuck in the cycle of addressing traffic congestion by widening highways, which generates more traffic, and the cycle repeats ad infinitum.
April 13, 2016
How San Diego Planners Spun the Press to Sell Highway Expansions
How far will transportation agencies go to spin public perception of their highway expansion plans? San Diego's KPBS has produced a brilliant case study in this video and the accompanying report -- a deep dive into the media operation mounted by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) to defend its slate of highway expansion projects.
April 12, 2016
Mapping the Cost of Sprawl for Low-Income Workers
How do highways and greenfield development exacerbate inequality?
April 12, 2016
America’s “New” Rail Systems Are Showing Their Age
What should we make of the recent headline-grabbing service disruptions at Washington Metro and BART? This chart from Houston transit advocate Christof Spieler offers some important perspective.
April 11, 2016
Your 2016 Parking Madness Champion Is… Louisville!
Streetsblog readers spent the past three weeks voting in Parking Madness, the single elimination tournament where cities compete for the Golden Crater -- a symbol of the shameful amount of space we've allowed surface parking to consume in our communities. We started with a field of 16 and now we have a champion.
April 8, 2016
What Would an Urban Agenda Look Like for Your State?
Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper recently tweeted that "Ohio needs an urban agenda." A group of local bloggers (myself included) think that's a great idea, and we've been writing about what good state-level policy for Ohio cities would look like.
April 8, 2016
Oregon DOT Wants to “Change Cultural Norms” Related to Distracted Driving
It's refreshing to see public agencies go beyond PSAs to deter distracted driving, which contributes to thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year. With traffic deaths on the rise in Oregon, state officials are ramping up their efforts.
April 7, 2016
The Comeback of Transit-Priority Streets in DC
Forty years ago, the Washington region had 60 miles of bus lanes on its streets, a network that was erased once Metrorail started operating. Today passengers make about half a million trips on Metro buses each weekday, not a great deal less than Metrorail, but there is no network of priority streets for buses.
April 6, 2016