USA

Street Vending Can Help Post-COVID Economy

By John Rennie Short | Jul 9, 2020

Street vendors have always been an important part of our street landscape — even when we've criminalized them.

Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Mystique, Part II

By Jeff Wood | Jul 9, 2020

So why does Josh Stephens hate the Olympics?

Why We Shouldn’t Fix Some ‘Crumbling’ Highways

By Gideon Weissman | Jul 8, 2020

Americans shouldn't have to choose between building endless new highway miles and endlessly fixing the roads that destroy our places — because there are a lot of highways that deserve to be decommissioned.

NYC

City Quashes Secure-Bike-Parking Pilot

By Dave Colon | Jul 10, 2020

"One of the goals was to examine the financial feasibility," a DOT spokesperson told Streetsblog. "Unfortunately, we concluded it was not feasible."

How To Make the Brooklyn Bridge Car-Free

By Streetsblog | Jul 9, 2020

An architect's intriguing vision for the iconic span banishes automobiles.

Opinion: De Blasio’s Unbalanced Budget

By Eve Kessler | Jul 9, 2020

Cuts to worthy transportation programs — while sparing the bloated NYC Ferry — make a mockery of the mayor's stated goal of uniting the "Two New Yorks."

LA

How Beating of Unhoused Boyle Heights Man Exposes Woeful Inadequacy of LAPD Reform Proposals

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 23, 2020

Making the case for why, if L.A. is serious about reimagining public safety, it must embrace the conversation around defunding the police

L.A. Cyclists Ride for Justice for George Floyd

By Joe Linton | Jun 8, 2020

More than a thousand cyclists, mainly Black and Latinx, commemorated the death of George Floyd via a peaceful South L.A. RIde for Justice

Metro Sides with Police, Against Riders

By Joe Linton | Jun 2, 2020

By suspending service and shuttling arrestees, Metro leadership sided with the police, against the needs of its largely Black and brown ridership

CHICAGO

Protests are placemaking

By Olivia Grenzebach | Jul 8, 2020

These instances of road repurposing and placemaking are born from pain and anger, and yet they have brought communities together and created beauty.

Map: Here are the latest Chicago Slow Streets and Cafe Streets

By John Greenfield | Jul 8, 2020

Hopefully the city will take action to address geographic discrepancies, so all Chicagoans can reap the safety, health, and economic benefits of car-free streets.

Cyclists Highlight Need for Police Reform

By Cameron Bolton | Jul 6, 2020

The goal of their recent protest ride was to demand the creation of a Civilian Police Accountability Council, as well as reducing or eliminating funding for the CPD and reallocating money to social services.

SF

Bay Area Focuses on Transit Safety

By Roger Rudick | Jul 9, 2020

Advocacy groups and agencies talk about COVID safety and transit

Muni Rail Needs Crossing Gates

By Roger Rudick | Jul 8, 2020

It's nice to see Muni taking emergency measures to prevent gridlock, but it's time to talk about signal preemption

Op-Ed: Don’t Lose Sight of the Other Pandemic

By Roger Rudick | Jul 7, 2020

We must slow down if we want to vaccinate against that other deadly disease called traffic violence

DENVER

How Cops Foil ‘Streets For Protest’

By Kea Wilson | Jul 7, 2020

Can good street design really "protect" protesters — and the right to protest itself — from police brutality? No.

Four Things Every Sustainable Transportation Advocate Should Know About the INVEST Act

By Kea Wilson | Jul 1, 2020

The House reportedly likely to vote on a major infrastructure bill soon — and if it passes, it will have big consequences for the future of sustainable transportation in the U.S. The Moving Forward Act is a massive, $1.5-trillion bill that will have sweeping implications for housing, climate change, water, and land use in addition […]

Lime Jumps on Street-Safety Push

By Kea Wilson | Jun 29, 2020

Will "Lime Action" succeed in the noble goal of supporting an advocate-set agenda for our mobility future? What is that agenda? Time will tell.

CALIFORNIA

CA Transit Association Asks for Help to Stave Off Transit Collapse

By Melanie Curry | Jul 9, 2020

Steep drops in ridership and the elimination of fare payments have caused huge revenue losses, but the need to keep operating buses and trains to get essential workers to their jobs did not diminish.

Caltrans Updates Plan to Support Biking, Walking, and Transit

By Melanie Curry | Jul 9, 2020

Caltrans publicly commits to prioritizing actions that identify, evaluate, and fund active transportation projects

Active Transportation Program Seeks Evaluators for Next Funding Round

By Melanie Curry | Jul 2, 2020

Interested parties should put their name in the hat by July 13.

SOUTHEAST

How I Respond to “Atlanta Is a Car Town, Not a Cycling and Transit Town”

By ATL Urbanist | Jan 2, 2018

A commenter on a recent post of mine mentioned a couple of pretty common criticisms about expectations for growth in cycling and transit in Atlanta.

What Makes a Good City? You Need the Right Codes

By David Walters | Dec 1, 2017

How can we stop design and planning mistakes from damaging our city? Part 2 in a series of illustrated essays on urban design.

Suburban Exclusion of MARTA and Access to the Braves Stadium

By ATL Urbanist | Nov 13, 2017

There is a way to get to the Braves stadium by using Cobb County’s transit service. But that service is nowhere near as extensive as MARTA and doesn’t meet the needs of the people who live in suburban poverty.

OHIO

What’s Really Behind GCRTA’s Falling Ridership Levels?

By Tim Kovach | Dec 20, 2017

The past year has been eventful, to say least, for public transit in Northeast Ohio.

Driving Is the Problem, Not the Solution

By Tim Kovach | Dec 15, 2017

We’re officially in the middle of the holiday season, which can only mean one thing – that’s right, the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2016 came out last week.

COTA to Interview Four Candidates for CEO Post

By Brent Warren | Dec 13, 2017

Four candidates will be interviewed to be the next CEO of the Central Ohio Transit Authority.

STL

Why You Should Go to the Chouteau Greenway Events this Week

By William Smith | Jan 3, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard of Great Rivers Greenway (GRG) or specifically the Chouteau Greenway, you’re missing out on one of the most exciting developments planned in St. Louis.

Take Parking Away From Treasurer’s Office

By Steve Patterson | Jan 3, 2018

Former St. Louis treasurer Larry Williams reminds me of a small town version of New York's Robert Moses (1888-1981), using the state legislature to give him money and power while also remaining free of oversight.

How Much Do People in Missouri Bicycle?

By Brent Hugh | Dec 6, 2017

How much do people in Missouri bicycle? Is the amount of bicycling in Missouri growing? How to Missouri communities compare with other U.S. cities and with major cities of the world?

TEXAS

The One Little Rule That Decides Where Austin’s Towers Build Parking

By Dan Keshet | Jan 2, 2018

Not every tower in downtown Austin looks exactly the same, but there is one defining characteristic that describes almost all of them: parking. Most towers rest on top of what they call in the industry a parking plinth, the tower base where folks store their cars.

Remembering Pedestrian Pete

By Leah Binkovitz | Dec 13, 2017

Irascible, ornery, unconventional, Pedestrian Pete pushed Houston to be better and embrace walkable urbanism.

Harvey to Be a Turning Point for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Houston

By Raj Mankad | Dec 7, 2017

Rendering of New Hope Housing project on Harrisburg. Courtesy: GSMA.The urban ambitions of our government leaders — so easy to dismiss in the past as nice words with no budget — may get a serious infusion of funds because of Harvey. The Texas delegation that Governor Abbott took to Washington D.C. lobbied for $61 billion beyond what the state already expects to receive from […]