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Angie Schmitt

@schmangee
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

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Big Auto’s Horrifying Vision for Driverless Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 2, 2019 | No Comments
Cattle gates for pedestrians in NYC. "Antiseptic cities." This is what auto industry officials tell the New York Times they envision for self-driving cars.
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D.C. Vision Zero Bill Eats Bill de Blasio’s Lunch

By Angie Schmitt | May 8, 2019 | No Comments
And that's just the start. It would also allow regular citizens to help enforce bike-lane parkers and ban right turn on red, among other things. It's far better than anything New York City is doing.
Council Member Robert Cornegy rides a Bird e-scooter at a demonstration in 2018. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman
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Federal E-Scooter Safety Report — First of Its Kind — Raises Serious Concerns

By Angie Schmitt | May 3, 2019 | No Comments
The study, tracking 193 scooter-related hospitalizations in Austin, Texas, over a roughly three-month period did bring to light some concerning information — including that one-third of scooter riders who were injured were taking their very first trip. Here are the other highlights.
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Lest We Forget: The $2T Infrastructure Plan Will Likely Worsen Climate Change

By Gersh Kuntzman and Angie Schmitt | May 1, 2019 | No Comments
Without strong leadership, $2 trillion infrastructure bill could lock-in high, climate threatening transportation emissions.
Photo via The New School
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Paying Uber and Lyft Drivers More Benefits Everyone

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 29, 2019 | No Comments
The minimum wage law for cabbies seems to be having the desired effect already.
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Syracuse Will Tear Down I-81 Highway to Create Street Grid

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 22, 2019 | No Comments
New York State says it will tear down an elevated highway in Syracuse and replace it with a walkable street grid.
An e-scooter share program is coming to The Bronx this year.
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E-mazing: Scooter Trips Surpass Docked Bike Share for the First Time in U.S.

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2019 | No Comments
E-scooters remain illegal in New York City, but our readers should know the national trend.
The city's older painted bike lanes, like the Fort Washington Avenue lane shown here, don't lead to more traffic crashes despite increased bike volumes, new research shows. Photo: Department of City Planning.
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Study: Driver Behavior Shows Greater Need for Protected Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 15, 2019 | No Comments
A stripe of paint on the street isn't enough to keep bicyclists safe from drivers, a new study confirms.
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Arkansas Passes the ‘Idaho Stop,’ Allowing Cyclists to Yield at Red Lights

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 3, 2019 | No Comments
Arkansas became the second state in the nation to legalize the Idaho Stop on Monday, the biggest breakthrough yet for the iconic 35-year-old bike safety law.
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The Green New Deal Must Prioritize Transit, Group Says

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 2, 2019 | No Comments
Some early policy recommendations have started to take shape and they are pretty exciting.
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Study: Aggressive Driving is Linked to Seeing Cyclists as ‘Less than Human’

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 28, 2019 | No Comments
Drivers don't only hate people on bikes — they don't even see them as human.
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PARKING MADNESS 2019: Fill In Your Streetsblog Bracket Today

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 21, 2019 | No Comments
Sixteen awesome city spaces that have bloomed out of asphalt are going head to head in the next few weeks. See if your city made the cut.
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