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The Small Indiana City That’s Embracing Livable Streets: Kokomo
With a population of about 60,000 and a formerly industrial economy, Kokomo, Indiana, is not the type of city that recent economic trends have favored.
August 29, 2014
Boosting Transit Ridership With New Stations, Not New Track
Yonah Freemark at the Transport Politic calls them infill stations: new transit stops built in gaps along existing rail lines. Current examples include Assembly Station just outside Boston in Somerville, DC's NoMa Station, and the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.
August 28, 2014
Downtown Houston Will Get Its First Protected Bike Lane
A piece of top-notch bike infrastructure is coming to the largest city in Texas.
August 27, 2014
New Parking in Seattle Comes With a Side of Mixed-Use Development
Part of the promise of Seattle’s Link light rail was its potential to create walkable places in the sprawling Rainier Valley. And that’s starting to happen, locals report, but developers are getting some important things wrong.
August 26, 2014
It’s Time to Rethink Old Stereotypes About Renters
For a long time, renters have been thought of as a destabilizing force in urban areas. Federal housing policy encourages people to make the jump to homeownership in part because officials believe it will give people a larger stake in their neighborhoods and reduce crime. By subsidizing home purchases, these policies encourage people to “buy more house” and promote sprawl.
August 25, 2014
Could DC Add Bike Lanes to Its Traffic Circles?
Roundabouts can have big safety and environmental benefits, but can they be adapted to be great places for bicycling as well?
August 22, 2014
Sioux Falls Builds Sidewalk-Free School, Tries to Stop Kids From Walking
Stories like this one help explain why we have a childhood obesity epidemic in the United States.
August 21, 2014
Will Spokane Give Downtown Transit Riders the Boot?
Transit in Spokane, Washington, is centered around a well-designed plaza in downtown. While the transit plaza is considered a national example of how to design good amenities for riders, a group of business owners is trying to move it somewhere else, reports Bruce Nourish at Seattle Transit Blog.
August 20, 2014
Don’t Blame Hills for Pittsburgh’s Pedestrian Injuries
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently published an in-depth investigation of the city's pedestrian safety record. The paper reported that 2,100 collisions injured or killed pedestrians in the city between 2006 and 2013.
August 19, 2014
To Prevent Distracted Driving, New App Distracts Drivers
The new "heads-up" display system Navdy "feels like driving in the future," according to its producers. The dash-mounted projector displays images from your phone on your windshield. The idea is that you can text and drive while keeping your eyes focused in the right direction. "No more looking down to fumble with knobs, buttons or touch screens," goes the pitch.
August 18, 2014