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Coming Next Week: Streetsblog Chicago
After setting up transportation news sites covering New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and national policy, next Tuesday Streetsblog will be expanding for the first time in four years with the...
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The Origins of Holland’s “Stop Murdering Children” Street Safety Movement
Since the 1970s, the Netherlands and the United States have taken different paths when it comes to engineering streets. While the Dutch tackled traffic deaths and injuries by designing local streets...
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Chicago to Pursue Center-Running Bus Rapid Transit on Ashland Avenue
After a year of study and outreach, today Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Chicago Department of Transportation announced plans for center-running Bus Rapid Transit on Ashland...
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Give to Streetsblog By Thursday and You Could Win Goodies From Planet Bike
Thanks to everyone who’s given to Streetsblog and Streetfilms so far in our spring pledge drive — we’re nearly a quarter of the way to our fundraising goal of $40,000. I can’t emphasize enough how...
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Pledge to Streetsblog and This Awesome Elly Blue Collection Could Be Yours
Have you given to Streetsblog’s spring pledge drive yet? If not, may I suggest that this is the week to do so. In addition to supporting livable streets journalism and putting yourself in the running...
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Support Pro-Human Transportation Journalism – Give to Streetsblog
We are rolling right along with our spring pledge drive. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far — your donations will be converted into Streetsblog posts making the case for more livable streets...
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Help Streetsblog Keep the Lights on — Donate Today
We’re extending our spring pledge drive til the end of the week to reach our target of $40,000 in reader donations. If you haven’t given already, please make a tax-free gift today and help keep...
View ArticleBid While You Can: Streetsblog’s Online Auction Ends Tomorrow at 11 PM
There are less than 36 hours left in Streetsblog’s first online auction, with more than a dozen items up for grabs. Whether or not you win an auction item in the end, your bids will help Streetsblog...
View ArticleWe’re Hiring: Streetsblog Is Searching for a Managing Editor
Streetsblog is looking for a talented journalist to shape and oversee coverage throughout our growing family of news sites. The Managing Editor will work with the Editor-in-Chief and our roster of...
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Why TIME Magazine Got the Bixi Story Wrong
Major media have a habit of blowing bike-share problems out of proportion. Witness the 2009 BBC story that cast theft and vandalism as an existential threat to Velib in Paris. Five years later, Velib...
View ArticleStreetsblog Capitol Hill Is Now Streetsblog USA
I’m pleased to announce that our national news site has a new name: Streetsblog USA. Say it with pride. Why the change? Simply put, “Streetsblog USA” is a better reflection of the nationwide coverage...
View ArticleFamilies of NYC Traffic Violence Victims Band Together for Safer Streets
On Sunday, New Yorkers who’ve lost loved ones to traffic violence gathered on the steps of City Hall in Lower Manhattan to launch Families for Safe Streets, a new initiative advocating for street...
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Parking Politics Take a Bite Out of Downtown Raleigh
Donald Shoup, the godfather of parking policy, likes to point out that city planners make decisions about parking based on the politics of avoiding on-street parking squabbles, instead of broad public...
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Should Streets Be Designed for Easy Double-Parking or Safe Bicycling?
Making this safety redesign happen depends on officials’ willingness to tackle the double-parking problem. Image: Transport Providence After removing a downtown Providence highway segment, Rhode Island...
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HUD Expected to Loosen Restrictions on Mixed-Use Financing Soon
As Smart Growth America showed us earlier today, the costs of sprawl are high. So it’s a bitter irony that federal rules have made it more expensive to build compact, mixed-use development by tightly...
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Be a Streetsblog Superhero and Give to Our Spring Pledge Drive
We’ve all seen the graphs: Driving and car ownership have passed their peak in America, while transit ridership and biking are on the rise. On the ground, however, city buses still move at a crawl,...
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Time Is Running Out to Become a Streetsblog Superhero — Give Today
This is it! The final days and the final giveaway of our spring pledge drive. So far, 221 superheroes have donated to Streetsblog and Streetfilms. To reach our goal, we need 179 more readers to step up...
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The Citi Bike Deal Is Great News For Other Cities, Too
Bay Area Bike-Share, shown here in San Jose, is one of several systems that should be able to fulfill expansion plans quicker after REQX Ventures acquires a controlling stake in Alta Bicycle Share....
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Midwest Rail Advocates Take the Fight to Scott Walker
Rail advocates place this billboard along the corridor where Governor Scott Walker rejected a high-speed rail line. Photo: Environmental Law and Policy Center via The Political Environment In November,...
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Miami Highway Builders Try to Sell a New Sprawl Project to the Public
The Miami Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) wants to build a highway extension in the southwest fringes of the city, near the edge of the Everglades, and to do that it needs to ingratiate itself with the...
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