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Detroit to Add 50 Miles of Bike Lanes This Year
Detroit's streets are changing, and it's a beautiful thing to witness. Despite its recent bankruptcy, thanks to the help of philanthropic institutions in the area, the Motor City is moving to repair some of the damage that's been done by decades of promoting the speed of cars over the health of neighborhoods.
September 18, 2013
St. Louis Aims to Get More Walkable Development Out of Its Rail System
St. Louis is one of the rare, lucky Midwestern cities with light rail. The city seeded its Metrolink system in the 1990s and underwent a pretty large expansion in the early 2000s. It now has 37 stations.
September 17, 2013
Four Ways Protected Bike Lanes Benefit Businesses
The question isn't whether your city can afford to build high-quality bike infrastructure anymore, say our friends at the Green Lane Project. It's whether your city can afford not to.
September 16, 2013
Roundup: How Bus Rapid Transit Spurs Development
Here's a snapshot of what's happening around the Streetsblog Network today:
September 13, 2013
Study: Kids Who Live in Walkable Neighborhoods Get More Exercise
A study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Health finds that children who live in walkable places -- "smart growth neighborhoods," to use the authors' phrase -- get significantly more exercise than their peers who live in suburban environments designed for driving.
September 12, 2013
The Vision That Sparked Modern Portland: Where Is It Today?
Portland's rejection of highways in the 1970s and subsequent embrace of transit and bicycling seems like a given today. But not that long ago, that trajectory was just an idea, first expressed in an internal memo at City Hall in 1971.
September 12, 2013
In Seattle, Neighbors Compel CVS to Build a More Urban Drug Store
A lot of the time, neighborhood-level development fights play out like this story from Arlington, Virginia: Miles Grant at Network blog The Green Miles writes that this transit-accessible D.C. suburb recently saw the opening of 122 units of new affordable housing, which drew 3,600 applications. But Grant points out that there would be more affordable housing units to go around if neighbors hadn't objected to the original 192 units, citing fears about traffic and building height.
September 10, 2013
Suburbs Aren’t the Problem — It’s Bad 20th Century Design
It's easy to take shots at "the suburbs," a catchall term that evokes big box stores, fields of parking lots, and social exclusion. But suburbs don't have to be designed around driving, writes David Levinson at Streets.mn. Many of these places just had the misfortune to be developed at a time when awful planning practices were ascendant:
September 9, 2013
Stand Clear of the Doors — It’s Time for a Big Mac!
How much exposure to advertising should fare-paying transit users be expected to tolerate? Is a relatively minor fiscal benefit worth slapping ads on every bus, bus stop, subway platform and train car? Where does it end?
September 6, 2013
Tour the Globe With the Streetsblog Network
With dispatches from North America, Europe, Asia and beyond, today's Network offerings have a decidedly international flavor.
September 5, 2013