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A Look at the Year Ahead for Transit Expansion
At The Transport Politic, Yonah Freemark has made it a tradition to catalog new transit projects every year. He reports that 2014 will see a significant expansion of rail and bus rapid transit lines. "Virtually every metropolitan region in the United States and Canada is investing millions of dollars in new transit expansion projects," he writes:
January 6, 2014
2013 in City Transportation — Two Steps Forward…
Looking back at the year in transportation reform, there are certainly many reasons to be encouraged about what's happening in cities around the United States. Here are some 2013 retrospectives from Streetsblog Network members that give snapshots of two places that are making progress on active transportation, and one where the prevailing dynamic is still stuck in the 20th Century.
January 2, 2014
Milwaukee’s Job Sprawl Mess: a Cautionary Tale
Remember how suburban office parks used to be all the rage? Their strongest selling point was that you didn't have to pay to park at them. And if you lived in the suburbs anyway, you could avoid the hassle of going into the city, basically, ever. What could go wrong?
December 20, 2013
Seattle’s Uber Crackdown Would Protect Taxi Industry, Hurt Riders
The Seattle City Council is poised to pass some legislation that would crack down on popular ridesharing services like Lyft and UberX.
December 19, 2013
L.A.’s New Light Rail Line Is Luring Angelenos Out of Their Cars
What would it take to get Los Angeles residents to drive less? New research indicates that building light rail is working well.
December 16, 2013
Making Private Donors Pay for Cincy Streetcar: A Classic Double-Standard
This is a make or break week for the Cincinnati streetcar. The Federal Transit Administration has given the city until Thursday to provide "unequivocal" assurances that the "paused" project will proceed at the agreed upon schedule, or the agency will revoke its $45 million grant to the project.
December 16, 2013
How Children Demanding Play Streets Changed Amsterdam
The above video, excerpted from a Dutch television documentary series, shows how children helped catalyze the fight for safe streets in Amsterdam more than a generation ago.
December 13, 2013
Oregonians Less Interested in Bigger Highways, More Excited for Bike/Ped
By more than a two-to-one margin, Oregon residents would rather maintain existing highways than expand them. That's one of the most interesting findings from a recent survey of state residents taken by the Oregon Department of Transportation.
December 12, 2013
Why Cyclists Love Green Bike Lanes
At the end of the day, it's just paint. But green bike lanes and intersection treatments have a powerful appeal to cyclists, writes Dan Malouff at Beyond DC, because of what they say about streets:
December 11, 2013
More Transit Service or Lower Fares?
As the economy gradually improves, some transit budgets are looking a little rosier. In a few rare cases, transit agencies even have a surplus and need to decide how to handle it.
December 10, 2013