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The Other Guilty Party in a Traffic Crash: Road Designers
The design failures of the intersection where an Arkansas cyclist was struck this week are highlighted at around the 2:15 mark.
March 15, 2012
HR 7 Insanity: Air Pollution Funds Would Pay for Highway Expansion
We've gone over a lot of the things that are wrong with HR 7, the House transportation bill, i.e. the "worst transportation bill ever."
March 14, 2012
Apple to Build Sprawl-Tastic Corporate Headquarters in Cupertino
Remember when Apple was the scrappy upstart? The cool alternative? All the sudden they have more money than the U.S. Treasury and they're the ones environmentalists are complaining about.
March 13, 2012
All Aboard for a Second-Rate Passenger Rail Experience
After a trip to the East Coast, Aaron Renn of the Urbanophile came back with a critique of the passenger experience along America's most important rail corridor. You can't blame all the problems on the lack of investment, he writes:
March 12, 2012
Women in Transit: Still Swimming Upstream
Transportation planning and policy has traditionally been a very male dominated field -- and that continues to be reflected in policy.
March 9, 2012
The Bicycle in Art: A Universal Symbol of Progress
Bicyclists understand: the beauty, the simplicity, the feeling of almost flying. Surely, few of man's inventions have been responsible for as much human happiness as the bicycle.
March 8, 2012
Driving’s Long Decline in Oregon
Call it peak driving, or the end of an era: Americans are driving less.
March 7, 2012
The Trouble With RoboCars: “You Can’t Optimize People So Easily”
Driverless cars sound like something out of a science fiction novel. But believe it or not, Google prototypes are already here, cruising the streets of California. And computer engineers are devising intersections optimized for driverless cars, which Streetsblog NYC featured last week.
March 6, 2012
From Manhattan to Texas, How Many People Can Live in Cities?
The New York Times ran a story this weekend on a topic near and dear to every urbanist's heart: population density. "How Many People Can Manhattan Hold?" looked at the growth potential in America's most densely populated island and concluded there's plenty of room to grow -- if current residents have the appetite for it.
March 5, 2012
St. Louis Takes the First Step Toward Highway-cide
The big news out of St. Louis over the past year has been the city's plans to redesign the park that houses its signature Gateway Arch.
March 2, 2012