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Can LA Make “Great Streets” If the Mayor Won’t Stand Up for Good Design?
Los Angeles, with its expanding transit network, is supposed to be in the process of shedding its cocoon of car-centricity and emerging, in the words of a recent Fast Company headline, as America's "next great walkable city." The city's streets, however, didn't change a whole lot under former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. When Eric Garcetti was elected mayor in 2013, advocates thought he could provide the leadership to finally prioritize walking, biking, and transit on LA's streets.
May 19, 2015
Dallas Highway Teardown PAC Snags Two Council Seats. Next Up: Runoff
A coalition of Dallas residents trying to build a more walkable, people-friendly city gained some momentum in Tuesday's election, picking up at least two City Council seats. At stake is the potential replacement of a downtown highway segment with mixed-use development and parks. The balance of power in the council now comes down to a June runoff.
May 14, 2015
The Philadelphia Bike Story
Of U.S. cities with more than a million residents, the one where people bike the most is Philadelphia. In 2012, the U.S. Census estimated Philadelphia’s bicycle commute rate at 2.3 percent [PDF], higher than Chicago (1.6 percent) and New York (1.0 percent).
May 12, 2015
Baltimore: The Consequences of Planning That Isolates Neighborhoods
Cross-posted from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership
May 11, 2015
Salt Lake City to Install Nation’s First Protected Intersection for Bicycling
Salt Lake City is on track to implement America's first protected intersection for bicycling this summer.
May 6, 2015
Freeways Without Futures: I-345 in Dallas
In this Streetfilm, Patrick Kennedy, founder of A New Dallas, talks about the movement to replace Interstate 345 in downtown Dallas with connected streets and walkable development. Shot at the "Freeways Without Futures" session at the Congress for New Urbanism's recent conference in Dallas, the piece provides views of I-345 from heights most people never get to see.
May 5, 2015
Bike-Share Comes to Philly With the Launch of Indego
On Thursday, Philadelphia's long wait for a bike-share system came to an end with the launch of the 60-station, 600-bike Indego system, which is set to expand in the near future. At the kickoff, volunteers and officials -- including Mayor Michael Nutter -- rode about half of those bikes to their docking stations.
April 24, 2015
Minneapolis Sets Out to Build 30 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes By 2020
Minneapolis is one of the best cities for biking in the U.S., and it wants to get better. Last week the city released a plan to build 30 miles of protected bike lanes over the next five years and a total of 48 over 10 years.
April 21, 2015
Los Angeles Gets Its First Protected Bike Lanes
Implementation of the very first parking-protected bike lanes in Los Angeles is underway on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge.
April 3, 2015
Detroit Breaks Ground on First Protected Bike Lane Project
The Motor City is getting its first taste of on-street protected bike infrastructure. Work has begun on a street redesign that will bring Detroit its very first bike lane where parked cars will protect riders from motor vehicle traffic.
April 3, 2015