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Posts by Angie Schmitt
2013
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May 23:
Visualizing America’s Absurd Parking Requirements
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May 22:
Taxes Too High? Try Building Walkable, Mixed-Use Development
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May 21:
Seven Conservative Reasons to Love Bicycling
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May 20:
Does the Gender Disparity in Engineering Harm Cycling in the U.S.?
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May 17:
There’s No Doubt: Traffic Enforcement Cameras Save Lives
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May 16:
Next Boondoggle From Wisconsin DOT: Double-Decking Milwaukee Freeway
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May 15:
NTSB: States Should Have Tougher Drunk Driving Rules
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May 14:
Cyclists Are Special, and They Should Have Their Own Rules
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May 14:
Parking Madness Champion Tulsa Moves to Limit Surface Parking Downtown
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May 08:
The Debate About Bike Infrastructure Has Been Settled
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May 07:
Do American Transit Projects Suffer From a Democracy Deficit?
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May 06:
Boston to NYC (and Everyone): Bike-Share Will Be Worth It
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May 03:
The Incompatibility of Resilience and Sprawl
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May 02:
The Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and Why It Barely Registers
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May 01:
If Americans Don’t Like Walkable Cities, Why Aren’t They Cheaper?
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Apr 30:
The Big Leap from Car-Lite to Car-Free
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Apr 30:
Expanding Car-Share Beyond America’s Biggest Cities
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Apr 29:
What Kind of Transpo Secretary Will Anthony Foxx Be?
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Apr 26:
Teaching Police How to Use Laws That Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists
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Apr 25:
In Colorado, a Big Legal Victory for Active Transportation Funding
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Apr 25:
Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings
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Apr 24:
Where Is the Bottom? Americans Continue to Drive Less and Less
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Apr 23:
The Opportunity Costs of Highway Expansion
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Apr 19:
Transport U: Mode Shift at MIT
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Apr 19:
AAA Spokesman: Leading DC Urbanist “Retarded” and “Like the Klan”
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Apr 18:
Transport U: Stanford Turns Green Commuting Into Greenbacks
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Apr 18:
Orlando Cop Who Struck Pedestrian and Fled Scene Is Caught on Tape
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Apr 17:
Is Federal Bike Lane Guidance Working in Your City?
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Apr 17:
Transport U: Colleges Save Millions By Embracing Policies to Reduce Driving
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Apr 16:
A Better Way to Grade City Transportation Systems
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Apr 15:
The Final Act for Portland’s $3 Billion CRC Highway Boondoggle?
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Apr 12:
Walk Score Introduces “ChoiceMaps” to Measure Neighborhood Amenities
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Apr 11:
In a Landslide, Tulsa Wins the Parking Madness “Golden Crater” Award
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Apr 10:
In Wisconsin: Driving Stagnates, Highway Spending Accelerates
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Apr 09:
It’s Tulsa vs. Milwaukee in the Parking Madness Championship!
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Apr 08:
Final Four Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Houston
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Apr 08:
How Walkable Is Your State DOT’s Headquarters?
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Apr 05:
The Value of “Good Enough Urbanism”
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Apr 04:
“Elite Eight” Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Cleveland
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Apr 04:
Why Are State Senators Holding Up Indianapolis’s Transit Plans?
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Apr 03:
The “Elite Eight” of Parking Madness: Milwaukee vs. Columbia
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Apr 02:
Study: Loosening Parking Mandates Leads to More Affordable Housing
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Apr 02:
U.S. DOT, HHS Announce Public Health Campaign to Reduce Driving
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Mar 28:
Parking Madness: San Bernardino vs. Houston – Second Chance for SoCal
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Mar 28:
Maryland on the Verge of a Fix for Transportation Funding Woes
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Mar 27:
Parking Madness: Cleveland vs. Spokane
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Mar 27:
When the State DOT Stands in the Way of Local Progress
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Mar 26:
Parking Madness: Louisville vs. San Diego
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Mar 26:
Introducing the Parking Reform Mayoral Candidate
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Mar 25:
Parking Madness: Los Angeles vs. Dallas
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Mar 25:
A Hippocratic Oath for People Who Take Care of Cities
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Mar 22:
Study: Homes Near Transit Were Insulated From the Housing Crash
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Mar 22:
In Many Markets, Rail Beats or Competes With Air Travel
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Mar 21:
Study: Car Commuters Put on More Weight Than Active Commuters
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Mar 20:
Will Vehicular Cyclists and the “Right to Park” Trump Safer Streets in Boston?
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Mar 19:
How the U.S. Tax Code Favors Driving Over Other Modes
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Mar 19:
Krugman: Costs of Driving Deserve Way More Attention
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Mar 18:
Change Culture, Change Streets: An Anthropological View of Bike Advocacy
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Mar 14:
The Problem with Entertainment Districts
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Mar 13:
Senate Restores MAP-21 Funding Through 2013
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Mar 13:
What Houston (or Anyone) Could Learn from Singapore’s Free Flowing Streets
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Mar 12:
While Amtrak Subsidies Draw Fire From Congress, Aviation Gets a Free Pass
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Mar 12:
One Reason Federal Funding Is So Important to Transit
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Mar 12:
Why Do People Quit Riding Transit? It’s the On-Board Delays, Stupid
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Mar 11:
Memphis Marching Forward on Safe Streets
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Mar 08:
Long-Distance Commuting Hits a Wall
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Mar 07:
The Lifeless Reality of Urban Casinos
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Mar 06:
AAA Still Up to Its Old Tricks Fighting Progressive Transport Policy
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Mar 06:
Seeking Submissions: The Worst Parking Crater in an American Downtown
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Mar 04:
Washington State Lawmaker: Cyclists Cause Pollution By Exhaling
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Mar 01:
Political Piñata Amtrak Is the Fastest Growing Transportation Mode
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Mar 01:
Has the NTSB Made a Single Recommendation on Bike Safety Since 1972?
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Mar 01:
Sprawl Madness: Two Houses Share Backyard, Separated by 7 Miles of Roads
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Feb 28:
For Eighth Year in a Row, the Average American Drove Fewer Miles in 2012
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Feb 28:
In Seattle, Transit Supporters Get Ready to Flex Political Muscle
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Feb 27:
What We Can Learn From the New Wave of Municipal Bankruptcies
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Feb 26:
Wooing Suburban Drivers With Cheap Parking: A Losing Strategy for Cities
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Feb 22:
NSC: 36,200 Americans Killed in Traffic in 2012, First Increase in 7 Years
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Feb 22:
Despite “Fix-It-First” Rhetoric, Obama Still Promoting Highway Expansions
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Feb 21:
Washington State Considering a “Symbolic” Tax on Bicycles
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Feb 21:
Making Your City More Walkable? That’s Not “Zoning”
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Feb 20:
Walkonomics Sets Out to Create a New Way to Measure Walkability
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Feb 19:
Portland, Mainers Don’t Miss Torn Down Road Infrastructure
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Feb 15:
Litmus Test for Transport Spending: Will It Benefit Our Kids?
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Feb 14:
Fix-It-First Policy Must Tackle Road Expansions on Track for Federal Loans
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Feb 13:
Why Obama’s “Fix It First” Approach to Infrastructure Matters
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Feb 12:
How to Create an Unloved Public Space: Surround It With Parking
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Feb 11:
Could You Give Up Your Car for Lent?
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Feb 08:
Aspen, Colorado, to Vote on “Idaho Stop”
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Feb 08:
Explaining Public Transit to the Public
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Feb 07:
Does Riding Transit Make You More Civic-Minded?
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Feb 06:
The Votes Are In: Omaha Abomination Voted Worst Intersection in the U.S.
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Feb 06:
Why Is Charlotte’s Former Mayor Challenging Charlotte’s Transit Plans?
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Feb 05:
Report: Most States Have Poor Safeguards Against the Revolving Door
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Feb 05:
Lowering Mandatory Parking Minimums Is Nowhere Close to a “War on Cars”
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Feb 04:
Why Transpo Bureaucrats Need to Take More Risks
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Feb 04:
The Revolving Door: TxDOT’s Phil Wilson, “Revolver in Chief”
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Feb 01:
If Pols Won’t Raise the Gas Tax, How Else Will They Fund Transportation?
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Jan 31:
Study: People Who Bike or Walk to Work Enjoy Their Commutes the Most
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Jan 30:
The Case for a Highway Teardown in Dallas
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Jan 29:
28 Lanes, 8.5 Minutes to Cross — Is This America’s Worst Intersection?
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Jan 28:
Actually, Naysayers, Change Is Inevitable
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Jan 25:
Portland Mega-Highway Backers Resort to “Rebranding”
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Jan 24:
Seattle “Bikelash” Largely Invented, Poll Finds
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Jan 24:
Drivers Cover Just 51 Percent of U.S. Road Spending
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Jan 24:
PA Gov Tom Corbett’s Transpo Funding Fix: A Tax on Fossil Fuel
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Jan 23:
Repairing the Neighborhood Scars Created By a Freeway
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Jan 17:
Massachusetts’ Anticipated Transpo Funding Plan Is a Big Ol’ Let Down
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Jan 16:
VA Gov Bob McDonnell Boots Bypass Opponent From State Transpo Board
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Jan 11:
Miami Mom Describes the Traumatic Experience That Is Crossing Her Street
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Jan 11:
Violent Crime Up in the Suburbs, Down in Big Cities
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Jan 10:
The Diminishing Returns of Highway Building
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Jan 09:
$450 Billion in Federal Subsidies Tilt U.S. Real Estate Market Toward Sprawl
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Jan 09:
The Practical Genius of Old American Main Streets
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Jan 08:
FTA Opens the Door For More Transit Expansions to Receive Federal Funding
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Jan 08:
What Is the Anti-Density Crowd Really Afraid Of?
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Jan 07:
Business Leaders Help Win Protected Bike Lanes in Portland
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Jan 04:
Streets Filled With Driverless Cars: A Perpetual Fantasy?
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Jan 03:
Avis Acquires Zipcar: What Are the Implications?
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Jan 02:
Transit Tax Benefit Equalized With Parking Benefit in Fiscal Cliff Deal
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Jan 02:
Sneak Preview: 2013 in Transit
2012
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Dec 21:
GM Bailout Will Cost Taxpayers as Much as $12 Billion
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Dec 20:
Author Jeff Speck on Walkability and the One Mistake That Can Wreck a City
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Dec 20:
LeBron James, Bike Commuter
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Dec 19:
Breaking: Sprawl Just as Reliant on “Big Government” as Smart Growth
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Dec 14:
DC Residents: Parking Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough
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Dec 13:
Here They Are: The Best and Worst American Transportation Projects
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Dec 13:
How a Group of Young Bike Advocates Are Reshaping Reno
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Dec 12:
Number of Protected Bike Lanes in America Nearly Doubled in 2012
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Dec 11:
What’s Behind the Rise in Cyclist and Pedestrian Deaths?
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Dec 10:
Want to End the Scourge of Surface Parking? Tax Land, Not Buildings
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Dec 07:
Smaller Cities Taking on Big Transit Projects
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Dec 07:
Sidewalk Bandits Make Off With the Pedestrian Right-of-Way
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Dec 06:
Why California’s Two-Thirds Local Ballot Threshold May Be Worth Keeping
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Dec 05:
Obama Takes Another Swing at $50 Billion in Infrastructure Spending
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Dec 04:
DNC Head: Transit “Essential to Our Economic Success”
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Dec 03:
Patty Murray as Senate Budget Chief: What It Means for Transportation
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Dec 03:
Two-Way Protected Bike Lane Coming to the Heart of Downtown Chicago
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Nov 30:
Seven Ways to Make Bike-share More Accessible
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Nov 29:
Without Bypassing Chokepoints, BRT Risks Becoming “Symbolic Transit”
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Nov 28:
Wisconsin Highway Bonanza: Scott Walker Unfazed by Lack of Funds
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Nov 27:
Can Chicago Build a Bike-Share System That Works for Everyone?
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Nov 26:
St. Louis Boy Killed by Drunk Driver, Put in Harm’s Way by Design
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Nov 21:
Bike-Powered Disaster Response Gets National Spotlight
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Nov 20:
Funding Uncertainty Plagues Highways, But They Still Get Built
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Nov 16:
One for the Dustbin: The 85th Percentile Rule in Traffic Engineering
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Nov 14:
New Balance to Build Train Station as Part of Its Boston Headquarters
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Nov 13:
Shoup: Free Parking to Blame for California’s Solo Car Commuting Habit
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Nov 13:
Photos: Toronto Protesters Meet Bike Lane Removal Crew Head On
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Nov 09:
A New Governor for Washington, a New Day for Transit in Seattle?
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Nov 08:
World’s Most Entitled Driver Sentenced to Wear “Idiot” Sign
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Nov 08:
Let’s Agree: Treating Cities as a Wedge Issue Is Senseless
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Nov 06:
How Ohio’s Early Voting Rules Discriminate Against City Dwellers
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Nov 05:
A Changing Marin County Is Still Building Yesterday’s Housing
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Nov 02:
The Connection That Can’t Be Ignored: Sandy and Climate Change
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Nov 01:
Transit in the NYC Region, After the Storm: Rebuild It Better
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Oct 31:
Is This the Beginning of the End of Climate Silence?
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Oct 29:
As Another Major Storm Looms, Will Candidates Keep Ignoring Climate?
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Oct 25:
AAA Revives Offensive Against Safer D.C. Streets
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Oct 24:
Remembering When Our Streets Belonged to Everyone
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Oct 23:
Amtrak Hits a Train Speed Milestone in the Midwest
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Oct 17:
When Did Cities Become Politically Unmentionable?
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Oct 12:
When Will We See a Department of Transportation and Land Use?
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Oct 09:
Florida and Kansas Reverse Course on Spurned Trails Funding
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Oct 03:
Greater Atlanta Continues to Treat Walking Like a Crime
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Oct 03:
Private Bus Routes and Silicon Valley’s Outmoded Office Model
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Oct 02:
Is Your Region a “Complete Community”?
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Oct 01:
How Streets Designed for Speed Led to the Death of Seventh Grade Girl
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Sep 28:
The Tricky Politics of Introducing a Streetcar to a City
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Sep 26:
How NOT to Fix Your Economy: Prevent People From Getting to Jobs
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Sep 26:
Connecticut Towns Nix Highway for Greenway
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Sep 25:
Slate Examines the Irrational Biases That Underlie Cyclist Hatred
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Sep 24:
Is It Time for Interbike to Dump Las Vegas?
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Sep 21:
Police Bias in Car-Bike Collisions? Los Altos, CA May Take the Cake
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Sep 20:
League of American Bicyclists Introduces “Diamond” Bike-Friendly Status
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Sep 19:
Planning a Streetcar? Better Get Your Zoning Right
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Sep 18:
Study: 10% More Smart Growth = 20% Less Driving
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Sep 18:
Orlando Looks to Halve Pedestrian Deaths
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Sep 17:
Mitt Romney’s Other Running Mate: The Fossil Fuel Industry
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Sep 17:
Fighting (Imaginary) Traffic in Downtown Kansas City
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Sep 14:
Wisconsin DOT “Flagrantly Ignored” Federal Civil Rights Requirements
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Sep 13:
Making Neighborhood Streets “Skinny” and Safe
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Sep 12:
China Racing Past Competitors to Expand City Subways
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Sep 11:
FHWA Offers a Guide for American Cities and Towns Considering Bike-Share
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Sep 11:
Almost Every State Chooses to Retain Recreational Trails Funding
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Sep 10:
AASHTO: America’s Best Transportation Projects Are All Highways
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Sep 10:
Bike-Share and Bike Lanes: The Chicken and Egg Debate
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Sep 07:
NACTO Beats the Clock With Quick Update of Bike Guide
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Sep 07:
Mexico City Bike-Share Goes Big
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Sep 06:
One Man’s Push to Require Bike Licenses in Oregon
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Sep 05:
What If We Supplied Hamburgers the Same Way We Supply Roads?
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Sep 04:
In Miami, Cloaking an Anti-Cycling Proposal in Bike-Friendly Language
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Aug 31:
The Big Deception in Mitt Romney’s Global Warming Brush-Off
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Aug 30:
No More Suburban Office Parks for Downtown Cincinnati
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Aug 29:
Why Are American Infrastructure Projects So Expensive?
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Aug 27:
A View of the Suburban Ghost Towns Surrounding Charlotte
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Aug 24:
How Grid Systems Promote Urbanism and Winding Streets Undermine It
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Aug 22:
Portland’s Parking-Free Apartment Boom
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Aug 20:
As State DOTs Receive Surprise $, Risk and Opportunity for Safe Streets
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Aug 17:
Walking Rates in America Improve, Still Pitiful
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Aug 15:
Syncing Traffic Lights No Sure-Fire Way to Reduce Emissions
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Aug 14:
Billionaire Oil Driller Serving as Romney Energy Advisor
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Aug 14:
WaPo Blames “Distracted Walking” for Unexplained Rise in Deaths
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Aug 13:
On Transport, Romney-Ryan Ticket Presents Extreme Contrast to Obama
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Aug 03:
High Economic Stakes for Pittsburgh as Transit Doomsday Looms
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Aug 02:
Metro Atlanta’s Sales Tax “Savings” Will Come at a High Price
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Aug 01:
Montgomery County Legalizes Two-Family Houses (But Not Really)
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Jul 31:
Portland to Rewrite Car-Centric Street Engineering Standard
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Jul 30:
The Politics of the I-35 Bridge Catastrophe: Not Just Minnesota’s Problem
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Jul 27:
Matching National Trend, Portland, Maine Sees Decline in Car Ownership
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Jul 26:
Coming to a Walkable Place Near You: More Efficient Housing
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Jul 25:
Maybe What We Need Is Ghost Cars
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Jul 24:
A Big Week for Bicycling in Fort Worth
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Jul 23:
Transportation Investments and America’s Quality-of-Life Gap
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Jul 23:
The Inherent Shallowness of the Rail vs. Bus Debate
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Jul 20:
Developer of NJ Mega-Mall-Amusement-Park Should Pay for Transit Service
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Jul 19:
GOP Selects Site Next to TIGER-Funded Greenway for RNC Convention
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Jul 18:
When “Vulnerable User” Laws Go Unenforced
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Jul 17:
How Does Your State Stack Up on Prioritizing Transit and Street Safety?
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Jul 17:
Holding Out for a More Cost-Effective Plan to Speed Northeast Rail
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Jul 16:
Skinny Storefronts, a Must for Walkability
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Jul 13:
In Virginia, Imagining a Less Disruptive Alternative to a Highway
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Jul 12:
Peeking Behind the Curtain of Big Oil-Funded Agenda 21 Conspiracy Mongers
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Jul 12:
Bullet Train Bombshell: CAHSR Spurned Cost-Cutting Offer From the French
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Jul 11:
Does Transit Really Have a White People Problem?
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Jul 11:
Lower Taxes, Less Smog: The Carbon Tax’s Wild Success in British Columbia
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Jul 09:
Report: Traffic Studies Systematically Overstate the Benefits of Road Projects
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Jul 09:
DC Metro’s Hyper-Vigilance Following Crash Overlooks One Major Threat
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Jul 05:
On Individualism, Being American and Striving for Sustainability
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Jul 03:
How Much Will New Federal Safety Mandates Cost Transit Agencies?
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Jul 02:
The Tea Party’s Selective Disdain for Transportation Subsidies
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Jun 29:
Advocates: Transpo Bill Ignores Trends, Shrinks From 21st Century Challenges
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Jun 29:
Which States Do the Most (and the Least) to Support Biking and Walking?
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Jun 28:
Rails-to-Trails: Final Transpo Bill “Bad News for America”
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Jun 27:
Bike Delivery Businesses Excluded From Clean Air Freight Grant in Portland
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Jun 25:
Engineer: “Award-Winning” PA Highway Ramps Nothing to Be Proud Of
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Jun 22:
On Portland’s East Side, a Sea of Empty Parking and a Plan to Change It
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Jun 21:
In Metro Portland, Car Collisions More Costly Than Congestion
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Jun 20:
Capital Bikeshare Subscribers Save $891 a Year
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Jun 19:
Is Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Pulling a Scott Walker?
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Jun 18:
The Upside of iPhones Without Google Transit Directions
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Jun 18:
What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet’s Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer
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Jun 14:
California APA Pooh Poohs Statewide Parking Reform Efforts
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Jun 13:
Apple Drops Transit Directions From Mobile Devices
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Jun 13:
Ta-da! Money for Highways Appears Out of Nowhere in Texas
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Jun 12:
Want to Increase Cycling? Sharrows Won’t Cut It
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Jun 11:
Even Most Republicans Don’t Want to Slash Spending on Transpo
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Jun 07:
Meet the Bike Entrepreneurs Helping to Rebuild Detroit’s Economy
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Jun 06:
Have Toronto’s Bike Lane Butchers Found Another Target?
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Jun 05:
10 Years Later: How Cincy Healed Its Central City — and Its Reputation
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Jun 04:
Cleveland: Building Public Support With Pop-up Cycling Infrastructure
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May 31:
In American Courts, Drivers Still Innocent After Proven Guilty
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May 30:
Seattle Pol Falls Into the “Sustainability Gap”
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May 29:
Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and the New Wave of Anti-Urban Politics
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May 23:
Bike Registration Laws: A License to Profile?
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May 22:
When Outdated Environmental Laws Prevent Sustainable Development
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May 21:
Portland Back on Top in Bicycling Magazine’s City Rankings (L.B. #19)
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May 21:
How Much Will $6 Billion Improve Access to Jobs in Metro Atlanta?
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May 18:
The Urban Premium: Walk Score Linked to Housing Prices
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May 17:
Ladyblogs’ Bully-Free Zone Doesn’t Apply to Cyclists
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May 16:
Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars
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May 16:
How Baton Rouge Brought Its Transit System Back From the Brink
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May 15:
DC: Getting Urban Sports Arena Development Right
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May 14:
Smart Growth Opponents Run Against Portland’s Pro-Urbanism Policies
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May 11:
How Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood Embraced Bike Lanes
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May 10:
Will Dallas Buckle Under the Weight of So Much Asphalt?
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May 09:
Pittsburgh Faces a Transit Doomsday
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May 08:
Buy America’s Shocking Pricetag
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May 07:
The Reason Foundation’s Comically Flawed Research on LA Rail
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May 04:
Will DC’s New Parking Czar Take Parking Reform to the Next Level?
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May 03:
A Freeway Revolt Is Brewing in Dallas
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May 02:
Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: Media Portrayals of the Car-Free
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May 01:
So You Have a Complete Streets Policy. Now What?
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Apr 30:
Detroit Gets Back to Its Pre-Motor City Roots With Bike Manufacturing
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Apr 27:
San Diego Police: Unless the Cyclist Is Killed, Top Penalty Is a Ticket
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Apr 26:
The Suburbanization of St. Louis Isn’t Helping St. Louis
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Apr 25:
Study: Low-Income Neighborhoods Much More Likely to Have Dangerous Roads
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Apr 25:
Debunking NIMBY Math on California HSR
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Apr 24:
New York City to Rein in Megabus, Other Inter-City Bus Services
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Apr 23:
Hit-and-Run Crashes the Norm in Chicago Pedestrian Deaths
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Apr 20:
Cities With the Most Highway Miles: a “Who’s Who” of Decay
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Apr 19:
Citing Budget Constraints, Portland to Invest More in Biking, Not Driving
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Apr 18:
Dallas City Council Member: Adding Highway Lanes Is Pointless
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Apr 17:
A TOD Impostor in Fresno
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Apr 16:
11 Transportation Officials Who Are Changing the Game
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Apr 16:
Two Ways to Sustain Wisconsin’s Highway Racket: Tolls or Crushing Debt
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Apr 13:
Study: In Baltimore, One in Six Drivers Pass Cyclists Illegally
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Apr 12:
What’s Wrong With a Car-Centric System? New Video Explains It All
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Apr 06:
U.S. PIRG Report: Young Americans Dump Cars for Bikes, Buses
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Apr 06:
Oregon DOT Nixes “Highways Division” for “Multi-Modal” System
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Apr 05:
Pennsylvania Enacts 4-Foot Passing Law, Nabs Violator on First Day
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Apr 04:
More Cycling: Good for Everyone — Not Just Cyclists
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Apr 03:
Occupy Wall Street’s Poorly Targeted Transit Action
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Apr 02:
Seattle Restaurants See More Revenue After Parking Rates Increase
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Apr 02:
Is Rahm Emanuel’s $7 Billion Infrastructure Plan Replicable?
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Mar 30:
Partisan Transpo. Stance Rankles GOP Allies in Business and Beyond
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Mar 30:
Advocates Defend New Haven’s “Downtown Crossing” Highway Removal Plan
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Mar 29:
Forget Carmageddon, Seattleites Predict A-Park-alypse If Parking Minimums Lifted
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Mar 28:
Pressure Mounts on House to Take Up Senate Bill. Does the House Care?
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Mar 28:
Wisconsin Highway Binge Continues Under “$mall Government” Walker
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Mar 27:
Chicago’s Parking Requirements Are an Out-of-Date Relic
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Mar 26:
Capital Bikeshare Both Replaces and Promotes Transit Trips
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Mar 23:
The Hunt for the Worst Bike Lane in the Midwest
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Mar 22:
Why Is Seattle’s Sound Transit Building a 500-Space Parking Garage?
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Mar 20:
Race to the Bottom: The Sad State of Public Discourse on Gas Prices
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Mar 19:
What the Rest of the Country Can Learn from Houston’s Damn-Low Rents
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Mar 16:
Feeding the Beast: The Backdoor Ways Transit Subsidizes Roads
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Mar 15:
The Other Guilty Party in a Traffic Crash: Road Designers
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Mar 14:
HR 7 Insanity: Air Pollution Funds Would Pay for Highway Expansion
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Mar 13:
Apple to Build Sprawl-Tastic Corporate Headquarters in Cupertino
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Mar 12:
All Aboard for a Second-Rate Passenger Rail Experience
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Mar 09:
Women in Transit: Still Swimming Upstream
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Mar 08:
The Bicycle in Art: A Universal Symbol of Progress
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Mar 07:
Driving’s Long Decline in Oregon
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Mar 06:
The Trouble With RoboCars: “You Can’t Optimize People So Easily”
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Mar 05:
As the Economy Grows and Adds Jobs, Americans Keep Driving Less
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Mar 05:
From Manhattan to Texas, How Many People Can Live in Cities?
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Mar 02:
St. Louis Takes the First Step Toward Highway-cide
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Feb 28:
There’s Nothing Free About a Freeway Extension
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Feb 24:
Pop-Up Urbanism: The Origins of a Movement
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Feb 23:
Chicago Building a More Bus-Friendly Central City
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Feb 22:
Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the House Transpo Bill
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Feb 21:
Seattle Cyclists Find Safety in Numbers
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Feb 17:
Reminder: States Already Control Transpo $, and They Waste Billions
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Feb 17:
Flashback: Ronald Reagan Touts Gas Tax Hike, Transit Funding as Job Creators
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Feb 16:
H.R. 7: Is John Boehner Serious?
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Feb 16:
Blumenauer: Don’t Let American Streets Remain Unsafe Routes to School
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Feb 15:
In NYC & Florida, Asking Police to Step Up for Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety
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Feb 14:
House Transpo Bill Turns Communities Into Collateral Damage
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Feb 13:
Rural Lawmakers Try to Stall a Higher Gas Tax in Maryland
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Feb 10:
Detroit Transit Woes a Preview of American Transit Under House GOP
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Feb 09:
A Day of Action to Stop the Attack on Transit, Biking, and Walking
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Feb 08:
There’s a Chance House R’s Won’t Muster Votes to Pass Mica Bill
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Feb 08:
Speeding Enforcement Cameras Work, and They’re Coming to Chicago
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Feb 07:
The Mile-High City Gets Back to Its Rail Roots
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Feb 06:
Ready to Fight? The House GOP Bill Leaves Little Choice
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Feb 03:
Study Links Quality Urbanism to Happiness :)
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Feb 02:
Even More Reasons to Abhor the House Transportation Bill
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Feb 01:
Austin’s Urban Success Threatens Its Iconic Music Venues
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Jan 31:
Even Some Republicans Don’t Like the House GOP’s Oil Drilling Plan
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Jan 30:
UCLA’s Richard Jackson Hosts PBS Series on Urban Design and Public Health
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Jan 30:
Kickstarting a “Narrow Streets” Community in Rural Maine
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Jan 27:
Partisan Labor Fight Threatens Indianapolis’s Game-Changing Transit Vision
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Jan 26:
College Presidents Kill Baltimore Bike Lane
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Jan 25:
SOTU: Is Obama Retreating on Infrastructure?
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Jan 25:
Mixed-Use Development Delivers Huge Public Returns Compared to Sprawl
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Jan 24:
Today in Bad Ideas: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Subway to Suburbia
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Jan 23:
How the “Right” to Cheap Parking Makes Streets Less Equitable
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Jan 20:
People Who Live Near Shopping Streets Three Times More Likely to Walk
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Jan 19:
SC DOT Responds to Cyclist Death By Considering Bike Ban
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Jan 18:
Getting Around Near and Far — The Supercharged Bike-Sharing Card
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Jan 17:
Maps Show Striking Correlation Between Car-Travel and Obesity
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Jan 17:
A Safety Fail From the Federal Railroad Administration
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Jan 13:
In Maryland, Marginalizing Pedestrians Under the Guise of Safety
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Jan 12:
Fracking to Take a Heavy Toll on New York Roads
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Jan 11:
Celebu-Economist: Drunk Driving Safer Than “Drunk Walking”
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Jan 10:
The Design Tragedies That Pass for Road “Improvements”
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Jan 09:
Will a Shorter Light Rail Line Work for Detroit?
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Jan 05:
One Anti-Rail Congress Is No Reason to Delay California HSR
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Jan 04:
Study: The Key to a Healthy Region Is a Strong Central City
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Jan 03:
Coming to a City Near You in 2012 — New Transit Projects Underway
2011
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Dec 23:
Seattle Police Mock “Dumb F***” Jogger Hit By Semi Truck
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Dec 21:
Biking and Walking Score Big in TIGER III
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Dec 21:
Health Benefits of Ciclovia Events Outweigh Costs
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Dec 20:
The Amazing Disappearing State Gas Tax
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Dec 19:
Will Urban Revitalization Leave Some Cities Behind?
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Dec 16:
States Forfeit $10 Billion Annually Thanks to Outdated Gas Taxes
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Dec 16:
The Silent YIMBY Majority, and Why They Lose
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Dec 14:
The Cincinnati Streetcar: Triumphing Over an Anti-Transit Governor
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Dec 13:
No Accountability for State DOTs on Highway Projects
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Dec 13:
Bike Lane-less Dallas Inches Forward
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Dec 12:
The Secret to a Healthy Life: A Daily, Half-Hour Walk
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Dec 09:
A Tappan Zee Bridge Without Transit Is a Lousy Jobs Program
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Dec 08:
Are Cyclists “Elite Snobs”? It Depends on If They’re in Your Way
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Dec 07:
The Federal Government Wants to Bribe You to Drive to Work
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Dec 06:
Housing Bust Poster-Child Miami Invites More Sprawl
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Dec 05:
Arkansas Officials Surround State Capitol With Even More Parking
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Dec 01:
Oakland Cops Can’t Be Troubled With OWS Vehicular Assault
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Nov 30:
Epic Job Creation Fail: Paying Developers to Build Free Parking
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Nov 29:
Light Rail Expansion Signals an Urbanizing Houston
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Nov 28:
Can America Afford Not to Bike More?
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Nov 17:
Greater Cleveland in Denial About Its Downfall: Sprawl
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Nov 16:
The High Cost of Cheap Roads
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Nov 16:
TIGER III Requests Exceed Available Funding 27 to 1
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Nov 15:
More Evidence That Bike Facilities Are Good for Local Businesses
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Nov 14:
In Massachusetts, Driving Drunk, Getting Caught, Walking Away Scot Free
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Nov 11:
Meet the Rick Perry Donor Who Runs Texas DOT
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Nov 10:
Want to Sell Voters on Transit? Keep It Simple
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Nov 09:
The Hypocrisy of Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit” Campaign
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Nov 09:
Raleigh-Durham Voters Give Go-Ahead to Light Rail Plans
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Nov 08:
Saving the Farm: The Fight to Keep Sprawl From Engulfing Rural America
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Nov 08:
Senate’s Draft Transpo Bill Ends Earmarks But Weakens Bike-Ped Programs
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Nov 07:
FRA Safety Regs Add Costs, Not Safety, to American Rail
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Nov 04:
Report: “Cash for Clunkers” Was a Lemon
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Nov 03:
Texas Sprawl Builders Funneled Taxpayer $ to Highway That Enriched Them
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Nov 03:
Putting the Price of California HSR in Perspective
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Nov 02:
Is City Living the Secret to Happiness?
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Nov 02:
Fifteen Is Serene: DC Considers 15 MPH Speed Limits
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Nov 01:
Is City Living the Secret to Happiness?
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Oct 31:
Trapped By Car Dependence: Stories From Commute-Battered Americans
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Oct 31:
AP: GOP Attacks on Transportation Enhancements Are “Tall Tales”
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Oct 28:
Memo to Rand Paul: Want Bridges in Better Shape? Invest in Cycling
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Oct 27:
The Power of Blogs and Social Media in Transportation Policy
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Oct 26:
The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists
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Oct 25:
Seattle Drivers Cause Most Crashes, But Seattle Cops Increasingly Cite Peds
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Oct 21:
FTA Distributes $1 Billion to Local Transit Agencies
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Oct 20:
Transportation Enhancements Beats Back Another Assault
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Oct 20:
Look Out Below: One in Nine Bridges Structurally Deficient, Reports T4A
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Oct 18:
In South Carolina, a New Era of Justice for Cyclists?
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Oct 17:
The $125,000 Commute: Not as Uncommon as You’d Think
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Oct 14:
Cyclist Requests Summit With Jerry Brown After Gov Kills Safe Passing Bill
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Oct 13:
New GAO Report: All States are “Donees” When it Comes to Highways
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Oct 13:
Lacking Sidewalks, South Fresno Peds Cut Dirt Path Maze Through City
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Oct 12:
New Jersey Residents: “More Smart Growth, Please”
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Oct 11:
What the Cycling Movement Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street
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Oct 11:
Sidewalks Alone Can’t Solve the Suburban Megaschools’ Walking Problem
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Oct 07:
Detroit Father Charged With Child Endangerment for Cycling With Sons
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Oct 06:
New Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart Growth
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Oct 06:
Rick Perry’s Frontier Justice Doesn’t Apply to Those Who Kill Cyclists
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Oct 05:
No Safe Option for Jersey Teens Killed on Railroad Tracks
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Oct 04:
Blaming the Victim: Specious Complaints About Cyclist Behavior
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Oct 03:
Aerotropolis: A New Model for Cities?
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Sep 30:
Critical Mass: Good for Cycling or Bad PR?
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Sep 29:
Backwards Priorities: Most Vulnerable Commuters Last to Be Considered
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Sep 28:
So Much for Austerity: Wisconsin Builds $25 Million Interchange in Cornfield
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Sep 27:
The Toothless Official Response to Air Quality Emergencies
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Sep 23:
Will Seattle’s “Carmageddon” Be as Anti-Climactic as LA’s?
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Sep 21:
One Year In, Capital Bikeshare Shatters Expectations
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Sep 20:
Should Public Transit Agencies Strive for Profitability?
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Sep 19:
Park(ing) Day Organizer Arrested in Miami
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Sep 16:
After Rash of Cyclist Deaths in Seattle, Grief Turns to Anger
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Sep 15:
Looking to Root Out Transportation Waste? Try Highways to Nowhere
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Sep 14:
Exxon: ‘One Mega-Highway, Please.’ Texas: ‘Coming Right Up’
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Sep 12:
Ten Years After 9/11, American Oil Addiction Persists
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Sep 09:
Obama’s Jobs Speech Gets the Transportation Wonk Seal of Approval
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Sep 08:
Georgia DOT: Only People on Bikes Go Joyriding
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Aug 24:
In Portland, Counterposing Demands for Equity and Innovation
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Aug 22:
Would Taxing Bikes Solve the Infrastructure Problem?
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Aug 19:
What’s Troubling Megabus Haters?
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Aug 18:
Recession Forcing Cutbacks at Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Transit Agencies
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Aug 18:
T4A Building Album of USA’s Most Dangerous Streets, Needs Your Photos!
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Aug 17:
How Seattle’s Deep-Bore Highway Opponents Lost Their Own Referendum
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Aug 16:
Maryland SHA: Guardrails Are for Protecting Cars, Not People
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Aug 15:
Transit By Referendum: A New Way Forward for Atlanta and Seattle?
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Aug 11:
San Antonio’s Sprawl-Busting Transit Chief
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Aug 10:
When Will the Environmental Movement Embrace Cities?
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Aug 09:
Chinese Communist Party Emulates America’s Socialist Parking Policies
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Aug 08:
Salt Lake City, Rising Transit Star
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Aug 05:
The Hidden Costs of Living Far From Work
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Aug 04:
Looks Like DTLA, Downtown Louisville Drowning in a Sea of Parking
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Aug 03:
From Sprawling New Jersey, a New Way Forward for State DOTs
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Aug 03:
Life Outside the Minivan: Car-Free Families Go Their Own Way
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Aug 02:
Indestructable Cincinnati Streetcar Faces Another Foe
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Aug 01:
Bike Shops: The Unsung Heroes of the Cycling Movement
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Jul 29:
Sprawl’s Greatest Hits: A History of Suburban Protest Ballads
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Jul 29:
Charlottesville, Virginia to Bypass Years of Careful Planning
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Jul 27:
Federal Regulations at Odds with Demand for Urban Housing
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Jul 22:
On Gentrification and Cycling
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Jul 20:
Mixed Messages: Parking Requirements at Bars
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Jul 19:
St. Louis, 2008: Another “Carmageddon” That Wasn’t
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Jul 18:
The National View: Why Carmageddon (and the Wolfpack Victory) Matters
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Jul 15:
Don’t Count High Speed Rail Out Yet
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Jul 15:
Federal Government Offers a Helping Hand to Six Struggling Cities
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Jul 14:
Federal Government, Despite Progress, Still Acting as an Agent of Sprawl
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Jul 13:
Coincidence? Most Expensive Cities for Parking All Suspiciously Awesome
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Jul 12:
The Exquisite Irony of the House GOP Transpo Bill Cover
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Jul 11:
An Unsettling Look at the Early Marketing of the Two-Car Household
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Jul 08:
Mica’s Transpo Bill Would Spell Disaster for Transit
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Jul 06:
DC’s Car-Sharing Fee: A Case Study in Bad Parking Policy
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Jul 05:
The Specious Threat of Spillover Parking
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Jun 28:
Coming to a College Campus Near You: More Learning, Less Parking
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Jun 27:
The Persistence of Job Sprawl in Smaller Cities
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Jun 24:
Rob Ford’s Toronto: Moving Backwards
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Jun 23:
Chicago Experimenting With the “Pedestrian Scramble”
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Jun 22:
Cycling: What’s Holding Women Back?
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Jun 21:
Streets Built For Bikes and Pedestrians Also Yield More Jobs
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Jun 20:
Too Many Transfers, Too Much Parking, Not Enough Multi-Modalism
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Jun 17:
Poll: Republicans Support Transpo Policies to Avert Climate Change, Too
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Jun 17:
Private Investors Make Ultimatum to Dictate Detroit Rail Design
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Jun 16:
Fix-It-First Bill Introduced in Senate
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Jun 16:
Koch-Funded “Scholar” O’Toole: Seniors Love Car Dependence
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Jun 15:
Transit’s Identity Crisis: Social Service or Economic Engine?
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Jun 14:
Security Measures for Buses and Trains? They Could Make Us Less Safe
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Jun 13:
Which Comes First: Families Staying in the City, or Better Urban Schools?
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Jun 10:
“Right-Sizing” Detroit Should Start With Its Sprawling Suburbs
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Jun 09:
Leapfrog Development Rears Its Ugly Head Outside of Fresno
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Jun 07:
India’s Parking Policies Lead Down the Road to Car-Choked Cities
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Jun 06:
A Good Transit Plan Meets a Shaky Financial Commitment in Indianapolis
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Jun 02:
Trading Parking Spaces for Park Space
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Jun 02:
Existing Roads Slide Into Decrepitude as States Splurge on Highway Expansion
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May 25:
Washington Tops List of Bike-Friendly States
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May 16:
Angie Schmitt Goes Toe-to-Toe With Northeast Ohio Sprawl Boosters
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May 13:
“Development-Oriented Transit”: Lessons From Hong Kong
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May 12:
Senate Finalizing Transpo Bill — It’s Up to Boxer to Preserve Bike/Ped Funding
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May 12:
Job Sprawl and the Importance of Transit to Suburban Employment Centers
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May 11:
The Problem Isn’t Higher Gas Prices, It’s Lack of Choice
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May 10:
Blumenauer Bill Would Level the Field for Commuter Tax Benefits
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May 09:
Is More Transit Worthwhile If More Highways Are Part of the Bargain?
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May 06:
Two Years After the Stimulus Bill: Still a Political Grudge Match
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May 06:
Why Planners Need to Exercise (Not Exorcise) Their Passions
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May 05:
Scott Walker, Posterboy for Government Waste
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May 04:
Forget Your Bike Lock? Businesses in Portland Have You Covered
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May 03:
Washington Post: Happy Bike Month, Scofflaws!
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May 02:
Will Kids in Strollers Get the Heave-Ho on Boston Buses?
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Apr 29:
Digging a Hole: What’s Behind America’s Aversion to Fixing It First?
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Apr 28:
Chasing the Elusive New Transit Rider, Missing the Bus?
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Apr 27:
Signal Timing and Pedestrian Safety: A Case Study From Baltimore
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Apr 26:
Under Pressure, AASHTO Withdraws Objection to Stronger Bike-Ped Rules
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Apr 26:
The New Dynamics That Are Eroding the Market for Sprawl
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Apr 21:
It’s the Sprawl, Stupid — The Budget Buster No One’s Talking About
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Apr 20:
Zipcar Goes Public, Seattle Times Goes Road-Crazy, Commuters Go By Bike
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Apr 19:
Gabe Klein, Architect of DC’s Bike Progress, Is Chicago Bound
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Apr 19:
Suburban Commuter Rail: Politically Attractive, Functionally Repulsive
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Apr 18:
The Rising Price of Gas Is the Talk of the Nation
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Apr 14:
Portland Can’t Add Bike Parking Fast Enough to Please Businesses
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Apr 13:
AASHTO: New Rule Makes It Too Hard to Ignore Cyclists and Pedestrians
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Apr 13:
Local Lawmakers: Don’t Mess With Texas Cyclists and Pedestrians
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Apr 12:
Livability Star Vancouver the Latest City to Look at Highway Removal
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Apr 08:
Activists’ Warnings About Miami’s Brickell Avenue Prove Prophetic
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Apr 07:
The Ryan Budget: Doing the Same Thing, Expecting a Different Result
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Apr 06:
In Energy-Uncertain Future, Indiana DOT Bets That Nothing Will Change
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Apr 05:
How Far Should Bike and Transit Advocates Take Their Alliance?
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Apr 04:
Lavishing Developers With Publicly Funded Infrastructure in the D.C. Burbs
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Apr 01:
America Fast Forward Leads Streetsblog’s Transpo. Headlines
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Mar 31:
Obama’s Energy Security Speech Misses the Mark
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Mar 30:
Pro-Sprawl Policies Help Make Milwaukee America’s Most Segregated Metro
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Mar 29:
Bad Ideas 101: An Outer-Outerbelt for Charlotte
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Mar 28:
Happy 35th Birthday, D.C. Metro
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Mar 25:
Newsflash: Highways Are Handouts for Developers, Too
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Mar 24:
There’s a New Sheriff at Ohio DOT, and He Likes Asphalt
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Mar 18:
Sapping Street Life in Dallas, Ordinance by Ordinance
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Mar 17:
Poll: Rising Fuel Prices Hitting Middle-Class Americans Hard
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Mar 17:
Tea Party Conspiracy Theorists Descend on Charlottesville, VA
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Mar 16:
Downtowns Are Back, and They’re Bringing Central Neighborhoods Along
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Mar 15:
Trying to Lure Google? Better Have Mixed-Use, Walkable Development
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Mar 14:
In Detroit, Competing Interests Offer Competing Visions for Rail
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Mar 11:
NACTO: Feds Already Greenlighting Bikeway Design Innovations
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Mar 10:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. the Cincinnati Streetcar
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Mar 09:
State DOT “Improvements” Imperil Pedestrians in Florida
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Mar 08:
Bypasses of Bypasses: A Case Study on Induced Sprawl From North Carolina
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Mar 08:
On Eve of National Bike Summit, A Renewed Push for Separated Bike Lanes
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Mar 07:
Is Generational Turnover Necessary for the Return of Cities?
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Mar 04:
Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So
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Mar 03:
Beyond Bus v. Rail: A Nuanced Approach to Evaluating Transit
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Mar 02:
Is Driving on the Decline in the Pacific Northwest?
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Mar 01:
A Car Becomes a Weapon in Brazil; Pedestrians Shortchanged in Detroit
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Feb 28:
Gov. Rick Scott Says He’s Not Reconsidering Florida HSR Position After All
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Feb 28:
Condos, Parking Lots, and Transit: D.C.’s Transportation Crossroads
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Feb 25:
Gov. Rick Scott Is Reconsidering Florida HSR Position
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Feb 25:
Sprawl Wallops St. Louis With Eight Percent Population Loss
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Feb 24:
Highways Take Center Stage at Columbus Transpo Field Hearing
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Feb 24:
Road Interests Crowd Reauthorization Panels in Indiana and Chicago
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Feb 22:
Less Is More: Highway Removal Could Make Buffalo a Better City
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Feb 18:
Poll: Voters From All Walks Support Transportation Improvements, Reform
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Feb 18:
House Republicans Threaten Critical Transit Expansions Across the Nation
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Feb 17:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Has Some Strange Ideas About Job Creation
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Feb 16:
LaHood: Rail Is the Way Forward
-
Feb 15:
Barbara Boxer Commends Obama’s Long-term Transpo Plan
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Feb 14:
Backwards Budgeting, City Love, and Dangerous Hybrids
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Feb 11:
When Will AASHTO Revise Its Policy Against Separated Bike Lanes?
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Feb 10:
More Cyclists = Safer Cycling in Minneapolis
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Feb 09:
New Jersey’s TOD Tax Credit Is Producing Jobs
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Feb 08:
Sprawl Breeds Sprawl
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Feb 07:
Virginia Tea Party: GOP Development Policies = Eco-Extremism
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Feb 04:
Award-Winning Transit-Oriented Development May Never Get Transit
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Feb 03:
The Dividends of Car-Free Parenting
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Feb 02:
What Does John McCain Have Against Bikes at Airports?
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Feb 01:
How Cars Won the Early Battle for the Streets
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Jan 31:
Rahm Emanuel’s Bike Plan for Chicago Gets High Marks
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Jan 28:
Measuring the Global Health Impact of Transportation Reform
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Jan 27:
The Long and Triumphant History of Women in Cycling
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Jan 25:
Republican Opposition to Transit: A Geographic Explanation
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Jan 24:
Green Transportation Projects Moving Forward in Florida, Detroit
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Jan 21:
The Maddening Wrongness of TTI’s Annual Urban Mobility Rankings
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Jan 19:
Is It Time to Outlaw Car Radios?
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Jan 18:
Can Good Planning Tame the Suburban Retail Monster?
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Jan 14:
Returning Streets to People in South Korea: The Political Dividend
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Jan 13:
Oregon Lawmaker Wants to Outlaw Cycling With Young Children
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Jan 12:
Twin Cities Rein in Highway Expansions, Tame Runaway Transpo Spending
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Jan 12:
London’s Cycle Superhighways Boost Cycling 70 Percent
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Jan 11:
Highway Expansion Rampant in Wisconsin, Which “Can’t Afford” Rail
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Jan 10:
Going Car-Free in a Car-Centric City
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Jan 07:
In Iowa, Another Midwest HSR Plan in Jeopardy
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Jan 06:
U.S. Auto Safety Standards: Undermining Efficiency, Ignoring Pedestrians
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Jan 05:
A Lesson in Heading Off Anti-Reform Rhetoric
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Jan 04:
Beating the Fare Hike Blues
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Jan 03:
A Transportation Manifesto For a New Decade
2010
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Dec 21:
Demanding Action on a Deadly Road in Portland
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Dec 20:
Wooing the Hesitant Cyclist
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Dec 17:
Arlington, Virginia: Livable By Design
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Dec 16:
The Secret to Enjoying Winter: Ditch the Car
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Dec 15:
Report: Commuters in Eugene, Oregon Have It Best
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Dec 14:
New Jersey Gets It Wrong on Parking Lot Privatization
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Dec 13:
How to Talk to a Conservative About Cycling
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Dec 09:
Reincarnated ARC Tunnel Funds Proposed to Support Auto Infrastructure
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Dec 08:
Fort Worth City Council Smothers Streetcar in Its Crib
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Dec 07:
D.C.’s Metro Sees Cycling as an Opportunity to Grow Ridership
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Dec 06:
In Dallas, Sprawling City Form Hampers Shift to Light Rail
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Dec 03:
Fire Officials Challenge Street Safety Improvements in Virginia
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Dec 02:
Lessons For St. Louis From the UK’s “20′s Plenty” Campaign
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Dec 01:
Linking Transportation, Food Access and Health
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Nov 30:
The Final Push to Preserve an Important Benefit for Transit Riders
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Nov 29:
Multi-Family Developers: Easy Targets, Unintended Consequences
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Nov 24:
The Florida State DOT vs. Livability
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Nov 23:
A Former Traffic Engineer on the Industry’s Perverse Standards
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Nov 19:
Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact the Future of Car Sharing?
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Nov 17:
European Carmakers Get Into the Bicycle Business
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Nov 16:
Shocker: Returning $3B to Feds Won’t Cure Ailing NJ Transpo Budget
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Nov 15:
Retrofitting the Suburban Strip
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Nov 12:
“As Efficient as a U-Haul” — One Family’s Story of Moving By Bike
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Nov 11:
U.S. Trade Deficit Joined at the Hip to U.S. Oil Dependence
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Nov 10:
A Promising Start for Minneapolis Bike-Sharing
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Nov 08:
Estranged Bedfellows: Trains and Conservatism
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Nov 05:
Young People on Car Ownership: Meh
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Nov 04:
Columbus Developers: Transit Riders Are Bad for Business
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Nov 03:
The Fiscal Argument for Transportation Reform
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Nov 02:
In Austin and Around the Nation: Big Stakes for Green Transportation
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Nov 01:
Could Restructuring the Gas Tax Fund the Transportation Bill?
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Oct 29:
Separating Cyclists From Air Pollution
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Oct 28:
Becoming a YIMBY for Livable Communities
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Oct 27:
Cycling Tips From a Bike-Commuting Bus Driver
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Oct 26:
How One Arizona Town Is Encouraging People to Get High and Drive
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Oct 25:
The Case Against Linking Bike Safety Improvements to Cyclists’ Behavior
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Oct 22:
The Shrinking American House: Sign of a Cultural Shift?
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Oct 20:
In Detroit, a Long-Overdue Push to Create a Cohesive Transit System
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Oct 19:
How Walkable Are the Streets Near Your Transit Stop?
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Oct 15:
The Fitness Gap: Americans Walk Far Less Than People in Other Countries
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Oct 14:
Which Cities Are Making the Quickest Shift Away From Cars?
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Oct 13:
Sounding the Alarm on Bike-Ped Deaths and Injuries in D.C.
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Oct 12:
The Pay Toilet: Coming Soon to a Street Corner Near You?
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Oct 08:
In Death of ARC Tunnel, Political Grandstanding Trumps Governing
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Oct 07:
Mourning the Potential Loss of Bus Service on Long Island
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Oct 06:
Questioning Obama’s Transpo Legacy as Fresno County Sprawls
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Oct 05:
Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets?
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Oct 04:
Given a Choice, NJ and PA Sacrifice Bike-Ped Funding
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Oct 01:
Bike Boxes Stoke Motorist Resentment in Seattle
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Sep 30:
How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl
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Sep 28:
Investigative Series on Transpo Safety Overlooks Most Vulnerable Travelers
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Sep 27:
When It Comes to Successful Transit, Density Is Not Destiny
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Sep 24:
“Forgiving” Distracted Driving Won’t Keep Our Streets Safe
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Sep 23:
Development Near Transit Too Pricey? Build More Transit
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Sep 22:
Reclaiming the Streets on World Car Free Day
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Sep 21:
The Local Planning Commission: Still Hindering Progress Toward Walkability
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Sep 20:
The Psychology of Road Rage: How Cars Transform Others Into Obstacles
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Sep 17:
Making Transportation Safer for “Invisible Cyclists”
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Sep 16:
The Unnatural Demise (and Possible Revival) of the Baltimore Streetcar
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Sep 14:
Without a Plan, Sprawl Will Continue to Hollow Out Cleveland Region
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Sep 14:
Portland School Casts Off Bike Ban, Embraces Cycling
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Sep 13:
Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick
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Sep 09:
Leinberger: Infrastructure Bank the Right Prescription for Ailing Economy
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Sep 08:
Green Transportation Depends on Reining in Space for Cars
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Sep 07:
First Impressions of Obama’s Big Infrastructure Announcement
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Sep 02:
Livability: A Small Town Value
-
Sep 01:
Debunking the Myth of Motorist Entitlement to Monopolize the Road
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Aug 31:
One More Legal Hurdle for Texas Cyclists
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Aug 30:
Winning Votes for Transit: Lessons From a Conservative
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Aug 27:
DC Region Thinks Bigger for Bike-Sharing
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Aug 26:
Proof From Jersey That Laws Protecting Crosswalks Don’t Endanger Peds