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Even More Reasons to Abhor the House Transportation Bill
Want to make your community more walkable and bikeable? Maybe you've heard by now, the transportation bill put forward by House leadership is basically a worst case scenario, gutting programs like Safe Routes to School.
February 2, 2012
Austin’s Urban Success Threatens Its Iconic Music Venues
Nightlife and urban living -- they seem to go hand in hand. But while the success of entertainment venues can draw residents to urban areas, a city made famous by its eclectic music scene is seeing pressure from new residents to quiet things down.
February 1, 2012
Even Some Republicans Don’t Like the House GOP’s Oil Drilling Plan
Remember how NRDC's Deron Lovaas said the new transportation bill proposed by House Republicans is "a march of horribles"? Well, he wasn't exaggerating.
January 31, 2012
Kickstarting a “Narrow Streets” Community in Rural Maine
It's one version of an urbanist's dream: a 125-acre sanctuary where walking and biking are the primary mode of transportation; a community of narrow streets where cars don't intrude.
January 30, 2012
Partisan Labor Fight Threatens Indianapolis’s Game-Changing Transit Vision
Over the last few years, greater Indianapolis has been thinking big about transit. They developed a plan to double bus service and add new rail lines. They even identified funding (a 0.3 percent income tax hike) and built a viable political coalition around the vision -- which represented a dramatic shift away from the old car-centric approach that has dominated transportation planning there for decades.
January 27, 2012
College Presidents Kill Baltimore Bike Lane
Here's what's going on around the Streetsbog Network today:
January 26, 2012
SOTU: Is Obama Retreating on Infrastructure?
Being an election year, last night's State of the Union Address carried an extra bit of gravity, at least according to the favored media storyline.
January 25, 2012
Today in Bad Ideas: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Subway to Suburbia
No one is going to hail Toronto Mayor Rob Ford as a transportation visionary just because he keeps proposing outlandish "solutions" for Canada's largest city.
January 24, 2012
How the “Right” to Cheap Parking Makes Streets Less Equitable
For the uninitiated, the economics of curbside parking can be a tough subject to wrap your head around. Putting a price on parking runs counter to the orthodoxy that has prevailed in many American cities for the better part of a century: more or less, that free or artificially low-priced parking is a good thing.
January 23, 2012
People Who Live Near Shopping Streets Three Times More Likely to Walk
In case you had any doubt, urban design matters. A new study led by a research team at University of California at Irvine shows that people walk more when their neighborhood is close to Main Street.
January 20, 2012