Annual Bike-Share Passes Now Cost Just $5 for Low-Income D.C. Residents
Cities all over the country have been experimenting with ways to make bike-share service accessible to people who don't have a credit card and about $100 to drop all at once on an annual membership.
April 14, 2016
A Big Opportunity to Reform the Vicious Cycle of Highway Expansion
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx made headlines recently with a speech about how America needs to rethink its approach to urban highways. But U.S. DOT's influence is limited. States have the real power when it comes spending federal transportation funds, however, and a lot of states are still stuck in the cycle of addressing traffic congestion by widening highways, which generates more traffic, and the cycle repeats ad infinitum.
April 13, 2016
How Federal Rules Make It Harder to Build Trains in America
The Wall Street Journal's Bob Tita broke the news yesterday that the manufacturer of 130 new Amtrak railcars is years behind schedule, and probably won't complete the order before the federal funding for it expires. How did this happen?
April 12, 2016
How San Diego Planners Spun the Press to Sell Highway Expansions
How far will transportation agencies go to spin public perception of their highway expansion plans? San Diego's KPBS has produced a brilliant case study in this video and the accompanying report -- a deep dive into the media operation mounted by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) to defend its slate of highway expansion projects.
April 12, 2016
America’s “New” Rail Systems Are Showing Their Age
What should we make of the recent headline-grabbing service disruptions at Washington Metro and BART? This chart from Houston transit advocate Christof Spieler offers some important perspective.
April 11, 2016
Your 2016 Parking Madness Champion Is… Louisville!
Streetsblog readers spent the past three weeks voting in Parking Madness, the single elimination tournament where cities compete for the Golden Crater -- a symbol of the shameful amount of space we've allowed surface parking to consume in our communities. We started with a field of 16 and now we have a champion.
April 8, 2016
Transit Priority Streets Making a Comeback in D.C.
Forty years ago, the Washington region had 60 miles of bus lanes on its streets, a network that was erased once Metrorail started operating. Today passengers make about half a million trips on Metro buses each weekday, not a great deal less than Metrorail, but there is no network of priority streets for buses.
April 6, 2016
DC Used to Fly the Skull and Cross-Bones to Mark Each Traffic Death
My, how things change.
April 5, 2016
Associated Press Cautions Journalists That Crashes Aren’t Always “Accidents”
The Associated Press has tweaked its guidance for journalists about when to call traffic collisions "accidents."
April 5, 2016