A New Type of Streetsblog in St. Louis, Ohio, Texas, and the Southeast? Yep.
A little more than six years ago, we launched the Streetsblog Network as a way for people across the country writing about livable streets, sustainable transportation, and smart growth to band together and share ideas. There are many wonderful things about the Streetsblog Network, but I would put this is at the top of my list: It is both profoundly local, full of people working on the nitty-gritty of street design, transit service, and planning issues in their hometowns, and broadly distributed, with hundreds of members operating in cities all over the nation.
January 29, 2015
Sneckdown Fever!
With more than two feet of snow expected to accumulate on NYC streets in the next couple of days, this city is about to get blanketed by nature's traffic calming. Sneckdown fever won't be far behind.
January 26, 2015
Big Turnout for DOT’s First Queens Boulevard Safety Workshop
Change is coming to the most feared street in New York.
January 22, 2015
DMV Revokes License of Driver Who Killed Allie Liao
Chris Robbins at Gothamist reports that the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has revoked the license of Ahmad Abu-Zayedeh, who struck and killed 3-year-old Allie Liao in a Queens crosswalk in 2013. The decision by administrative law judge Sidney Fuchs reinforces the importance of DMV safety hearings as a venue to ensure that reckless drivers face consequences for killing other people.
January 21, 2015
Today’s Headlines
Streetsblog will be offline in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and resume publication tomorrow.
January 19, 2015
Seattle Car-Share Is Growing, But Is It Cutting Traffic?
After launching a pilot program three years ago enabling the company car2go to use on-street parking spots for its car-share fleet, Seattle is pursuing an expansion that would allow new companies to enter the market and dramatically increase the availability of point-to-point car-share vehicles.
January 16, 2015
What People Think of a Citywide 25 MPH Speed Limit in Decatur
Last year, New York City enacted a citywide 25 mph speed limit, a central plank in Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero street safety platform. Are other American cities going to follow suit?
January 15, 2015