Angie Schmitt
Recent Posts
Safety Officials to Cities: Stop Buying Such Huge Trucks
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Some strategies to make large vehicles safer in urban environments and save lives.
Why Are We Still Waiting for Electric Buses?
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In China, fleets of super-efficient electric buses roam cities. In the U.S. we're just getting started.
Tampa Voters Supported Transit Measure — But Sore Losers Want to Overturn it
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Yet again, there's a Koch brothers connection.
A Green New Deal? Here Are Some Suggestions
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If the "Green New Deal" only focuses on reducing emissions from cars and trucks, it won't go far enough.
Detroit Hurt By Too Much Parking
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Just two families own a huge portion of downtown's Detroit's surprisingly profitable surface parking, a Free Press investigation finds.
Trump Administration Finally Releasing Transit Cash
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Trump's Federal Transit Administration is finally releasing long-ago-approved funding for major projects.
Trump’s Infrastructure Brinkmanship Threatens NY
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Donald Trump has been threatening to derail the nation's largest metro economy as leverage to get his border wall.
Kentucky Spent $1.3 Billion on a Highway No One Wants
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Two years after it opened, traffic is down 50 percent on Louisville's new $1.3 billion highway bridge.
Streetcars and Development: It’s Complicated
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A new study finds that modern streetcar systems are not great as engines of development.
The European Answer to School-Drop-Off Chaos
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"School Streets" prohibit cars on the roadways surrounding schools. They encourage walking and biking. And they reduce crashes.
U.S. Finally Legalizes Modern, European-Style Train Cars
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Finally, U.S. trains will no longer have be be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults" thanks to long-awaited changes in federal regulations.
Albuquerque’s Groundbreaking Bus Project Stalled
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A problem with the electric bus fleet means a much-hyped example of bus rapid transit will be delayed by up to 18 months.