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Cyclist Injuries Declined More in Cities With Bike-Share Than Without It
Last week, some very exciting new research was released, showing a significant drop in cyclist injuries in cities that launched bike-share systems. Unfortunately, the authors and many media organizations, like the Washington Post, overlooked that remarkable finding, and instead focused on one statistic that fails to tell the overall story: the proportion of cyclist injuries that are head injuries.
June 16, 2014
The Whole City of Florence Could Fit Inside an Atlanta Interchange
It's incredible how much we've given up in the United States all so we can travel slightly faster by car. The above graphic, revived by Lloyd Alter at Network blog Treehugger this week from an old blog post by author Steve Mouzon, really makes you stop and think.
June 13, 2014
Is Raising the Gas Tax Political Suicide? Not in States That’ve Done It
In just a matter of weeks, the Highway Trust Fund -- the source of the vast majority of federal funding for transportation -- will be broke, in the red, kaput. And national leaders are still squabbling about how to fix that. One proposal was to patch the budget gap by ending Saturday postal delivery and transferring the savings to infrastructure.
June 11, 2014
How Car Sharing Gradually Weans Users Off Driving
A number of studies have attempted to put a figure on the reduction in vehicles that results from car sharing services. Research from UC Berkeley's Susan Shaheen goes a step further and quantifies how car sharing reduces driving. Even though most customers didn't own their own cars before subscribing, Shaheen found that the overall impact of car sharing is to lower all customers' vehicle mileage by about a quarter.
June 10, 2014
Too Much Parking — Not a Shortage — Is Downtown Hartford’s Problem
There's excitement brewing over a couple of big changes coming to downtown Hartford, Connecticut, that could bring back some of the vitality that's been lost over the years. The area is preparing for a new campus of the University of Connecticut as well as a minor-league baseball stadium.
June 9, 2014
How You Can Tell Your City Doesn’t Care About Pedestrians
If you live in a town that doesn't consider pedestrian safety a very high priority, the signs are probably pretty obvious if you spend any time walking.
June 5, 2014
Miami Official: Transit Won’t Work Because “Car Culture” Is “in Our DNA”
There are public officials like this in every city: so uninspiring and resigned to the status quo that they end up defending it.
May 30, 2014
Adonia Lugo On What Makes Some Intersections More “Elastic” Than Others
Of all the places we encounter throughout the day, intersections have perhaps the most strictly prescribed rules. But the way people actually behave at intersections differs a great deal, depending on the mode of transportation, the place, the time of day -- all sorts of factors.
May 27, 2014
The Problem With “Same Road, Same Rules”
A recent post on Vox went viral with the argument that cyclists shouldn't have to make full stops at stop signs and should be allowed to proceed through red lights "Idaho stop"-style.
May 20, 2014
The Danger of Letting Your State DOT Plan Your City
If there's one place that should have internalized the lesson that more highways harm cities, it's St. Louis.
May 19, 2014