Philly Reduced Its Public Parking Supply and More Spaces Opened Up
If you remove a bunch of parking from the center of a city, you'll get carmageddon, financial ruin, and the complete unraveling of society as we know it -- right? That's what you tend to hear at public meetings when a proposal that would reduce parking comes up, but as this real-life example from Philadelphia shows, there's really nothing to fear.
January 6, 2016
Will the New “Free Range Kids Law” Protect Parents Who Let Kids Walk?
Last spring, Alexander and Danielle Meitiv became public faces of the "Free Range Kids" movement when their children were picked up by police in Silver Spring, Maryland, while walking home from a local park.
January 5, 2016
Visualizing LA’s 18.6 Million Parking Spaces as One Enormous Blob
Here's a great visualization of how much land parking spaces consume in our cities, via Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions.
January 5, 2016
Ridership on the Upswing After Houston’s Bus Network Redesign
Editor's Note: Los Angeles Metro is planning a frequent bus service network re-organization similar to Houston's. The L.A. project is now called Metro's Strategic Bus Network Plan (SBNP.) Read about L.A.'s SBNP here and here.
January 4, 2016
Sacramento Freeways and the “Small Town Mindset”
"It’s time to drop the small-town mindset and go for a big fix."
January 4, 2016
Vote for the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2015
It's almost time to say goodbye to 2015, which means we're about to hand out Streetsies to recognize achievements for walking, biking, and transit in American cities this year.
December 22, 2015
Louisville Removes Sidewalk “For Safety”
Louisville is in the middle of a three-year, federally-funded safety initiative to reduce the city's high rate of pedestrian fatalities. Per capita, four times the number of people are killed walking in Louisville than in Washington, DC.
December 22, 2015
Civil Rights Groups Challenge Maryland Gov. Hogan’s Red Line Cancellation
Back in June, newly elected Maryland Governor Larry Hogan unilaterally cancelled a transit expansion project that Baltimore had been planning for a decade, transferring the state's promised investment to road projects in more rural parts of the state.
December 21, 2015
America Already Has a Stratified Transportation System
The emergence of app-based taxis and private city bus services has prompted a lot of handwringing about the emergence of a "two-tiered" or "stratified" transportation system.
December 21, 2015
Carseats and the Limitations of American Safety Culture
One lesson they really hammer home, when you're a new parent, is the importance of carseats.
December 18, 2015