Portland Will Reduce Residential Speed Limits to 20 MPH
To improve traffic safety and make streets more welcoming for walking and biking, Portland will lower speed limits on nearly all of its residential streets to 20 miles per hour.
January 18, 2018
Between Your Bus Stop and Your Job — A Deadly Road
If you don't have access to a car, it can be hard to get to work in sprawled out America. The wait for the bus might be long, and you might have to transfer at least once, and then there's often a final cruel barrier: a dangerous road between your bus stop and your job.
January 17, 2018
The High Priesthood of Transportation Engineering Has a New Leader
The men and women who write the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices are an obscure bunch. But their influence over our living environments and how we get around extends almost everywhere you go in America.
January 16, 2018
Philly Wants to Modernize Its Streetcar System
The changes would make the system faster and more accessible while increasing capacity.
January 16, 2018
Toronto Cleared Cars Off Its Biggest Transit Street, and Ridership Soared Almost Overnight
It's been just a few short months since Toronto cleared most of the car traffic off King Street, giving the city's busiest streetcar route an unimpeded path. But already, the impact of the project is clearly transformative.
January 12, 2018
What’s Driving Hospital Sprawl?
The trend toward private rooms has hospitals heading for the cornfields.
January 11, 2018
Will Democrats Fall for Trump’s Fake Infrastructure Plan?
Democrats in the Senate have a lot of leverage in this process. But if party leaders don't even try to drive a hard bargain, their constituents will lose.
January 10, 2018
Buffalo Advocates Convince New York DOT to Rethink a Half-Baked Highway Removal
The state had pushed a "boulevard" design that was too much like the highway it was supposed to replace.
January 9, 2018
Dems Gain Control of Washington Legislature and Immediately Move to Pilfer Transit Funds
One of the first things on Washington state Democrats' agenda is undercutting Seattle's voter-approved transit expansion plans.
January 8, 2018
How Structural Racism at Regional Planning Agencies Hurts Cities
There's an obscure intraregional battle happening in the Cleveland area right now that highlights an important source of racial discrimination in urban planning.
January 5, 2018
