If People Can’t Afford to Live Near Work, They Probably Won’t Bike Commute
How out of control are Bay Area housing prices? It costs so much to live in Palo Alto that Kate Vershov Downing -- a lawyer who served on the Planning and Transportation Commission -- announced this week that she and her husband -- a software developer -- are moving to Santa Cruz. She resigned her seat on the commission.
August 11, 2016
If You Want to Fix Sorry Bus Stops, Don’t Forget to Tell the DOT
Streetsblog just wrapped up our 2016 Sorriest Bus Stop in America competition, with a waiting area on a state highway in Silver Spring, Maryland, beating out 15 other terrible bus stops for the crown of shame. For our voters, asking people to cross a six-lane divided road with no signal was unforgivable.
August 10, 2016
That Time a Louisville Paper Fantasized About Bombing Its Own Downtown
When urban renewal took a wrecking ball to American cities in the middle of the last century, some places looked like a war zone.
August 9, 2016
This Tiny Roadside Refuge in Silver Spring Is Your Sorriest Bus Stop, America
The people have spoken, and the winner of Streetsblog's 2016 Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament is this beauty on Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland.
August 8, 2016
NTSB Finally Takes an Interest in Cycling Safety — Still Misses the Point
The National Transportation Safety Board is best known for investigating train crashes and plane crashes to figure out what went wrong.
August 8, 2016
U.S. Transportation Now Belches Out More Carbon Than U.S. Electricity
For the first time in almost four decades, the nation's tailpipes now spew out more carbon emissions than the nation's smokestacks. It's an indication of how slowly the American transportation sector is rising to the challenge of preventing catastrophic climate change.
August 5, 2016
How the New Google Maps May Change the Way You See the City
What can a Google Maps visual teach us about the cities we live in?
August 5, 2016
It’s KC vs. Silver Spring in the Final Round of America’s Sorriest Bus Stop
This is it, folks -- the championship round of Streetsblog's Sorriest Bus Stop tournament.
August 4, 2016
Chris Christie’s Transportation Record Is a Bigger Disaster Than Bridgegate
What a fiasco. Six years after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie killed the ARC transit tunnel under the Hudson so he could avoid raising the gas tax, the jig is up. The state has run out of transportation funding anyway.
August 4, 2016
Where the People Walk: A Global Glance at Walking Rates
The way we move around is shaped by many factors -- the physical environment, culture, technology, and economic status, to name a few. A new report from the engineering firm Arup, "Cities Alive: Towards a Walking World," looks at how motorized cities can become walkable again.
August 3, 2016