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“Every Street’s Going to Prioritize Pedestrians”: MoveDC’s Lovely Fine Print
Livable streets advocates all over the country are buzzing about DC’s far-sighted new transportation plan, called MoveDC. So yesterday Streetsblog sat down with some of the people responsible for writing and implementing the plan. I spoke to Matt Brown, the District Department of Transportation's new acting director; Colleen Hawkinson, strategic planning branch manager at DDOT’s Policy, Planning and Sustainability Administration (PPSA); and Sam Zimbabwe, associate director of the PPSA.
June 4, 2014
Atlanta’s Pleasantdale Road Voted the Least Crossable Street in America
Streetsblog readers have spoken, choosing Atlanta's Pleasantdale Road as the "least crossable street in America," which beat tough competition from Phoenix, Kansas City, and other cities.
May 27, 2014
How the Federal TIGER Program Revived a Cleveland Neighborhood
Cleveland doesn't look like a dying Rust Belt city these days in the Little Italy and University Circle neighborhoods. In fact, it looks like it's thriving.
May 15, 2014
Boston Doctors Now Prescribing Bike-Share Memberships
The newest tool for doctors in the fight against obesity? That's right: Bike-share.
March 28, 2014
Traffic Plummets on the Highway Seattle Is Spending a Fortune to Replace
For months now, the largest tunnel boring machine in the United States has been broken down under the city of Seattle. Meanwhile, traffic on the highway that the tunnel is supposed to replace has plummeted, raising more questions about whether the project is worth the enormous expense.
February 21, 2014
Massachusetts Official: Boston’s Winter Cyclists “Living in the Wrong City”
Bostonians making polite requests for a clear path on one of the city's key bike routes were met with disdain from the state agency responsible for maintaining the paths.
February 19, 2014
Can Snow Inspire Better Streets? It Already Has.
Sneckdowns are having a big moment. In case you've missed the viral blog posts and major press coverage, sneckowns (a contraction of "snowy neckdowns" popularized by Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson Jr. and Streetsblog founding editor Aaron Naparstek) are leftover snow piles on city streets that show space that could easily be reclaimed for pedestrians.
February 12, 2014
Miami-Dade Squanders Transit Tax on Roads, Thanks to Florida DOT
Only one of every five federal transportation dollars are set aside specifically for transit. So it’s infuriating when a local government plunders the small pool of transit funds and spends it on roads. Particularly when that place has some of the country’s most notoriously car-dominated and dangerous streets.
February 7, 2014
TED Talk: OKC Mayor Mick Cornett on Designing a City for Fitness
I got to know Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett last year, when I interviewed him at the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. We talked about his realization that he and his constituents (generally speaking) were obese, and how he stood in front of the elephants at the zoo on New Year's Eve six years ago and announced that the city was going on a diet. He set out to have the residents of Oklahoma City lose a million pounds -- and the city achieved it.
January 6, 2014
Will Bill Bratton Make an Anti-Speeding PSA Like This?
A new anti-speeding PSA from DC police chief Cathy Lanier could be a good model for once and future NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton. Speeding is the leading cause of fatal crashes in New York City, and DC provides a model -- starting with a video like this one.
December 20, 2013