Walk Score Calculates City Bikeability, and Minneapolis Comes Out on Top
The people behind Walk Score, the real estate rating service that goes by the slogan “Drive Less, Live More,” are out with a new rating system, based on hard data, that should prove useful to prospective city dwellers: Bike Score.
May 14, 2012
Seven Questions About the Transportation Bill Conference
The first meeting of the transportation bill conference committee started today at 3:00. (To familiarize yourself with the participants, see Ben's reports on the House and Senate conferees.) We're live-blogging it, beginning to end, on Streetsblog Capitol Hill.
May 8, 2012
FHWA: Small Investments in Bike/Ped Infrastructure Can Pay Off in a Big Way
If you ever doubted whether a small investment in biking and walking could have a large impact, here is your proof.
May 1, 2012
Have a Question for Secretary LaHood? Ask It Here
Last spring, Ray LaHood's office approached Streetsblog seeking reader questions for the transportation secretary's monthly video blog series, On the Go With Ray LaHood. His aides have repeatedly told me that of all the blogs and organizations that got a similar shot, Streetsblog readers were the most engaged and asked the most insightful questions. LaHood wrote a guest post for Streetsblog to accompany the video of his answers.
April 30, 2012
Five Ex-Secretaries Map Out a Communications Strategy For Transportation
If 80 percent of the American people agree that federal infrastructure investment will create jobs, and two-thirds say better infrastructure is important, why is the call for a robust transportation bill being made in whispers? And why is Congress already two and a half years late in producing one?
April 24, 2012
Patent Troll Sues Transit Agencies For Releasing Real-Time Transit Info
Lloyd Dobbler, John Cusack’s generation-defining character in Say Anything, notably said, “I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.”
April 16, 2012
House GOP Tries to Horse-Trade Senate Bill For Keystone Pipeline
In another desperate attempt to push forward their fossil fuel agenda, House Republicans have indicated that even though they've been incapable of passing a transportation bill, they're willing to go to conference committee and pass the Senate bill. All the Senate Democrats have to do in return is approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
April 13, 2012
Census Breaks the News We Already Knew: The Exurbs Are History
Last week, the New York Times and USA Today reported that Census numbers had confirmed the death of the outer ring suburbs, or exurbs. The latest numbers, capturing the year (actually 15 months, April 2010 to July 2011) since the last Census, showed a major shift away from the settlement patterns from 2000 to 2010.
April 9, 2012
Can a 100% Private Passenger Rail Line Turn a Profit?
Public-private partnerships have recently become a popular policy prescription for the prospect of reviving inter-city passenger rail.
March 27, 2012