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Angie Schmitt

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STREETSBLOG USA

These U.S. Communities Are Making Safety Progress After Jaywalking Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 23, 2022 | No Comments
The Black Lives Matter protests and the pandemic have dramatically shifted the terrain around policing. As a result, the last two years have brought about the first serious rethinking of jaywalking laws in a century, challenging a practically universal American rule that dates back to some of the earliest auto industry lobbying campaigns. Here's what happened next.
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STREETSBLOG USA

Hard Right: How U.S. DOT Abandoned Walkers

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 20, 2020 | No Comments
Federal transportation officials have never done much to center the needs of pedestrians in their policies or funding decisions. But in 2012, things took a turn for the even worse.
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STREETSBLOG CHICAGO

How Not to be a Jerk When You’re Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2020 | No Comments
Driving isn’t like a video game. It is part of our lives, part of the legacy we leave as people.
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Questioning the Hyperloop Hype

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 20, 2019 | No Comments
The marketing geniuses at Hyperloop TT seem to have seized on some important cultural zeitgeist.
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STREETSBLOG USA

ANGIE SCHMITT: Goodbye, Streetsblog, I Love You

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2019 | No Comments
After nine years at Streetsblog, writer Angie Schmitt is moving on.
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STREETSBLOG USA

New Labor Rules for Uber and Lyft Should Help Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 13, 2019 | No Comments
A new California law making Uber and Lyft treat drivers as employees would have transportation benefits, too.
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STREETSBLOG USA

Indy Transit Leaping Ahead With New Bus Line

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 12, 2019 | No Comments
A major leap forward for transit in Indianapolis and the city is celebrating.
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STREETSBLOG USA

The Spectacular Benefits of Tactical Urbanism

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2019 | No Comments
Better safety. Faster journeys. Higher ridership. A review of 20 temporary, low-cost demonstrations finds huge benefits.
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STREETSBLOG USA

Seattle May Try To Replicate Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 6, 2019 | No Comments
A City Councilwoman wants to turn a six-block area of Capitol Hill into a low-traffic biking and pedestrian zone.
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STREETSBLOG USA

Florida GOP Trying to Kill Transportation Measure

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 5, 2019 | No Comments
A wide majority of Hillsborough County voted to tax themselves for transit and safer streets. The Florida GOP is trying to block it anyway.
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STREETSBLOG USA

Democrats’ Climate Plans Lack Vision for Urban Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 4, 2019 | No Comments
So far, no one has seriously grappled with how to help free Americans from over-dependence on driving.
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STREETSBLOG USA

Can Columbus Grow Itself Toward Walkability?

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 30, 2019 | No Comments
The city's new plan would concentrate growth around a few corridors with beefed up transit.
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