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Obama’s Budget Would Save the Transpo Trust Fund. If Only It Were Real.
President Obama’s transportation budget proposal can give you a contact high if you stand too close. The prospect of budget surpluses -- in the near-term, at least -- is intoxicating. And the source of those surpluses -- from Overseas Contingency Operations -- is a hallucination.
May 21, 2013
Seven Conservative Reasons to Love Bicycling
On the face of things, it's hard to understand why would anyone oppose bicycling. It's cheap, it's healthy, it's good for the environment.
May 21, 2013
Next Boondoggle From Wisconsin DOT: Double-Decking Milwaukee Freeway
If it seems like we've been singling out Governor Scott Walker and Wisconsin DOT a lot lately, that's because WisDOT is such an excellent example of what a highly dysfunctional state transportation agency looks like. The latest foolishness: a billion-dollar proposal to double-deck part of a Milwaukee freeway.
May 16, 2013
NTSB: States Should Have Tougher Drunk Driving Rules
At some point over the past few years, a lot of my friends started moving to Silver Spring and Takoma Park and Falls Church. These inner-ring, transit-connected suburbs of DC are still far less compact and walkable than the neighborhoods my friends moved from. So they bought cars.
May 15, 2013
Cyclists Are Special, and They Should Have Their Own Rules
There's a line of reasoning advanced by the media, angry motorists and, sometimes, cyclists, that goes something like: Since some cyclists don't follow the rules, cyclists don't deserve respect.
May 14, 2013
The Debate About Bike Infrastructure Has Been Settled
For decades, cyclists bickered amongst themselves about the efficacy and safety of bike infrastructure. With the proliferation of protected bike lanes in recent years, however, everyone can see that predictions about bike lanes making streets more dangerous for cycling simply didn't come to pass. Network blogger Elly Blue at Taking the Lane says the debate has been settled.
May 8, 2013
Do American Transit Projects Suffer From a Democracy Deficit?
Alon Levy at Pedestrian Observations ran a thought-provoking post today about the level of democratic involvement that goes into major American transportation projects.
May 7, 2013
Boston to NYC (and Everyone): Bike-Share Will Be Worth It
As New York readers know, bike-share stations are hitting the streets after the program encountered a few snags last year. When members start taking the first rides on Citi Bike later this month, it will be the nation's largest bike-share system, launching with 6,000 bikes.
May 6, 2013
The Incompatibility of Resilience and Sprawl
Leaders in the Dallas-Fort Worth area recently came together to discuss the idea of resilience -- whether the region can withstand big shifts like climate change and oil price shocks, and bounce back from unanticipated setbacks.
May 3, 2013