Car-Free Streets Draw Bigger Crowds in San Antonio Than Pro Sports
It's hard to argue that people in Texas just aren't into walking and biking after you watch the above video from the Rivard Report, which shows the overjoyed crowds at San Antonio's Síclovía open streets event earlier this month.
April 15, 2016
The Big Shakeup at America’s Transit Agency Trade Group
In a blockbuster development, New York's MTA has withdrawn from membership in APTA, the industry organization representing American transit agencies.
April 15, 2016
The Fight for Better Access to Jobs in Detroit and Milwaukee, Using Buses
Low-income residents of Detroit and Milwaukee face formidable obstacles to job access. These two Rust Belt regions are consistently ranked among the most segregated in the country, and neither has a good transit system.
April 15, 2016
DC to Provide Low-Cost Bike-Share Passes for Low-Income 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 14, 2016
How Federal Rules Make It Harder to Build Trains in America
The Wall Street Journal's Bob Tita broke the news yesterday that the manufacturer of 130 new Amtrak railcars is years behind schedule, and probably won't complete the order before the federal funding for it expires. How did this happen?
April 13, 2016
Mapping the Cost of Sprawl for Low-Income Workers
How do highways and greenfield development exacerbate inequality?
April 12, 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
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