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Less Affluent Americans More Likely to Bike for Transportation
Who are bike improvements for? That can be a contentious question in cities where the implementation of bike infrastructure is associated with affluent white people. But as the above chart from Michael Andersen at People for Bikes shows, lower-income Americans are actually more likely than wealthy people to use a bike to get to work:
January 24, 2014
Suburban Maryland Calls Wider Roads “Pedestrian Improvements”
It's one step forward, two steps back for transit and livability in the Washington region. Today, Greater Greater Washington reports that the highway lobby in Virginia is seeking to wrest control over transportation funding from the northern part of the state in order to shift transit and walkability spending to road projects.
January 23, 2014
How Would You Drive If Your Child Was Crossing the Street in Front of You?
Network blog Keep Kids Alive, Drive 25 is promoting a campaign they call "driven by love." The idea is that driving carefully -- remaining focused and sober, driving an appropriate speed -- is a loving way to drive.
January 21, 2014
The Suburb Where Everybody Can Walk to School
Lakewood, Ohio, population 51,000, doesn't have any school buses. It never has.
January 17, 2014
Austin Demonstrates How to Do Safe Passing Laws Right
Three-foot passing laws are well on their way to becoming mainstream. Bike advocates in cities and states around the country have won legal protections like this from California to Cleveland Heights.
January 16, 2014
Tall Buildings Don’t Cause Congestion, Parking Garages Do
There's a big development project happening in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on the site of a former hospital. The developer has proposed some senior housing, some retail and a luxury housing complex -- along with 194 parking spaces to go along with an existing 850-space garage nearby.
January 15, 2014
Will Wisconsin Change Its Permissive Drunk Driving Laws?
Wisconsin is the only state in the country where a first-time DUI offense is not a crime. In the notoriously boozy state, a first time citation for driving under the influence will merely get you a ticket.
January 14, 2014
NHTSA Chief David Strickland Gets Caught in the Revolving Door
When David Strickland announced last month that he was stepping down as the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, he didn’t give any clues about where he might be going. The news came out this week: The nation’s top auto regulator is going to be a lobbyist at a law firm that deals with auto regulation, raising concerns that he’s going through the revolving door between the public and private sector, more to the benefit of industry than the public.
January 13, 2014
Is This Anti-Speeding PSA Too Real for America?
Wow. This public safety spot from New Zealand really brings home how decisions we casually make while driving can have grave consequences.
January 8, 2014
Change a Traffic Signal, Save a Life
In San Rafael, California, a woman is dead and a man is in critical condition after a dump truck driver, who claimed not to see them as they were crossing the street, turned left and ran them over in the crosswalk last week. It's just one of countless similar tragedies playing out in the U.S. In this case, writes David Edmondson at the Greater Marin, simply giving people a walk signal before turning drivers get a green light could have prevented the loss of life:
January 7, 2014