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Crowd-Funding a New Public Space in Portland
The state of Oregon is testing a new type of public-private partnership in Portland, where advocates and electeds want to transform a parcel of land into a new park and greenway.
September 4, 2013
What Do We Do When a Reckless Motorist Refuses to Stop Driving?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Rick Bernardi at BicycleLaw.com looks at a particularly heinous hit-and-run case that typifies the failure of law enforcers to keep recidivist reckless drivers off U.S. roads.
September 3, 2013
Photo Contest: Send Us Your Pictures of Kids on City Streets
Two weeks ago, I posted some thoughts on raising kids in cities and right away, the comments section and Twitter lit up with a fruitful discussion of urban and car-lite parenting.
August 28, 2013
How Do the World’s Cities Stack Up on Walkability?
What makes a great walking city? Wide sidewalks with lots of street life? Low volumes of traffic? Lively pedestrian plazas? Hop-on, hop-off transit?
August 28, 2013
Major Road Builder Argues for Road-Pricing, Against More Asphalt
The primary theme of U.S. transportation policy since the mid-20th century hasn't been accessibility, public health, equality, or even efficiency. Primarily we've spent billions of dollars trying fruitlessly to eliminate congestion by building more roads.
August 23, 2013
How Fire Departments Both Perpetuate and Get Victimized By Sprawl
One of the big ironies of the safe streets movement is that a government agency charged with keeping us safe is quite often a major obstacle to preventing injuries and deaths. Fire departments tend to insist on wider streets to accommodate their emergency vehicles. But those wider streets encourage fast driving, which claims a lot more lives in the United States annually than fires.
August 21, 2013
Why Was Madison Left Out of the Midwest Rail Boom?
Does the state government of Wisconsin, under the leadership of Scott Walker, hate intercity rail or love it? Lately, it's been difficult to tell.
August 20, 2013
Message to Cities: Don’t Try to Be the New York Yankees
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Charles Marohn at Strong Towns writes about the tendency for cities to pin their hopes on splashy new projects. Kind of like how the Yankees always go out and sign an expensive free agent slugger.
August 19, 2013
St. Louis DOT Beats Rita Robinson in Streetsblog Motor Mouth Poll
Sometimes public officials say regrettable things. But few of them display the flagrant disregard for part of their constituency that St. Louis County Department of Highways and Traffic spokesperson David Wrone has.
August 16, 2013
Network Roundup: Building Trains Is Hard, Building Parking Is Easy
Here's a snapshot of what's happening around the Streetsblog Network today: headaches and heartbreaks on the way to passenger rail, smooth sailing for parking developments:
August 16, 2013