USA

A Fare-r Deal for Riders

By Aaron Short | Oct 11, 2019

Transit can raise ridership and better service while avoiding regressive fare hikes, experts say.

Talking Headways Podcast: Transit-Oriented Development in Seattle

By Jeff Wood | Oct 10, 2019

Let's hear how Sound Transit does it.

Report: Drivers Inhale More Pollution than Cyclists

By Aaron Short | Oct 8, 2019

Poetic justice: People who drive end up being exposed to more pollution from their cars than people who ride bikes or walk, a new report found.

NYC

OUTRAGE! Queens Pol Suggests Banning Bikes From Some Streets

By Dave Colon | Oct 11, 2019

"I said there are some streets where perhaps, if we are expanding bikes in some streets, we might want to say on a very heavily industrial block, we're not gonna have bike riders," the legislator said, before following up with: "We're not banning bikes."

City Strikes Deal on Rogue Carters

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 11, 2019

A maximum of three haulers will be able to pick up commercial waste in any given neighborhood zone, ending the current free-for-all with as many as 50 private carting companies racing through the streets.

Op-Ed: Bringing the Disability Community Into Vision Zero

By Eve Kessler | Oct 11, 2019

DOT's chief accessibility specialist on the challenges and successes of inclusion.

LA

Six Months in, Metro/Via Mobility on Demand Pilot is an Expensive Flop

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2019

With free rides and $1.75 million Metro subsidy the pilot is serves about a third of the ridership a low-performing bus route. Per ride cost is well over $20.

Caltrans Cancels High Desert Freeway Project

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2019

Thanks to a Climate Resolve lawsuit, Caltrans has agreed to halt work on the Metro-funded High Desert Corridor freeway

New Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel

By Joe Linton | Sep 27, 2019

Metro's new report lays the groundwork for Metro efforts to improve women riders' experience via an upcoming Gender Action Plan.

CHICAGO

Victory for Cycling on the Riverwalk

By John Greenfield | Oct 9, 2019

Thanks in part to Streetsblog's advocacy on the issue, Alderman Reilly never followed through on his threat to ban cycling on the promenade, and the city is looking at ways to accommodate biking. Now the no biking signs need to come down.

Inspector General calls out CPD for illegal parking; police bike lane blockage needs to stop too

By John Greenfield | Oct 9, 2019

While the new advisory focuses on parking in fire lanes and emergency exits, as well as parking placard abuse, the IG's office says it's also interested in sidewalk, crosswalk, and bike lane violations.

Anti-Bikeway Dinosaur Still Roams Earth

By John Greenfield | Oct 3, 2019

The author of "Effective Cycling" and founder of the vehicular cycling movement still insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that bikeways makes cyclists less safe.

SF

Call to Action: For a Better Market Street

By Roger Rudick | Oct 11, 2019

Tuesday is the big vote at SFMTA to get private cars off of San Francisco's main thoroughfare. Advocates want all hands on deck.

It’s Time for an Uber Tax

By Roger Rudick | Oct 9, 2019

Support the "San Francisco, California, Proposition D, Ride-Share Business Tax to Fund Muni, Pedestrian, and Bicycle Services and Infrastructure" measure.

Radio Podcast: Update on ‘Vision Zero’

By Roger Rudick | Oct 8, 2019

Streetsblog Participates in Panel at KALW Radio

DENVER

Greta Thunberg in Denver: “The Older Generations Are Failing Us.”

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 12, 2019

"We all need to do the seemingly impossible,” said 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg at a climate strike in Denver today.

Metro Denver Auto Emissions Have Doubled

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 11, 2019

Greenhouse gas emissions from autos increased 102 percent in the Denver Metro over 1990 levels. The news comes one day before 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg will lead a Fridays for Future Strike in Denver.

Eyes on the Street: Denver Must Do More to Protect Kids at Montbello Kindergarten

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 2, 2019

A city council member used the annual Walk to School Day photo op to demand that the city do more to protect kids when the best it could do was install a crosswalk 20 months after a child was hit in front of the Escalante-Biggs Academy in Montbello.

CALIFORNIA

CLIMATE REALITY: Californians Must Drive Less

By Melanie Curry | Oct 8, 2019

Even with all the policies on cleaner fuels, increases in driving are increasing emissions

Governor Mum on Complete Streets Bill

By Melanie Curry | Oct 4, 2019

If Newsom vetoes the Complete Streets Bill, he will need to explain why. Many bills are waiting, and many have been signed into law.

L.A. Celebrates Passage of Law on Homeless Housing

By Joe Linton | Oct 3, 2019

A.B. 1197 makes Los Angeles emergency homeless shelters and supportive housing projects exempt from California Environmental Quality Act

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 […]