Angie Schmitt
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.
Recent Posts
The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion
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Nobody gets thrown in jail for not paying a highway toll or a parking meter. But for some reason people who break transit fare rules are subject to criminal penalties.
When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby
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If you bought a cute little Copilot trailer to ferry your kid around town with your bike, we’ve got some bad news: Your purchase supported the gun industry.
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
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Montclair, California, is the latest American city to fall for the dangerous fiction that outlawing the act of walking while looking at a mobile device will make people safer.
America’s Stunted National Debate About Infrastructure
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When the discussion about infrastructure is limited to the question of whether we're spending enough, we're not talking about the infrastructure issues that really matter.
Baltimore Invents an Excuse to Avoid Building Its Downtown Bike Network
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This story isn't just about inflexible bureaucracy run amok. It's about how car owners disingenuously steered the bureaucracy to block the conversion of on-street motor vehicle storage into bike infrastructure.
Seattle Cut Car Commuting Downtown While Adding 60,000 Jobs
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From 2010 to 2017, downtown Seattle added 60,000 jobs. Over the same time period, the number of solo car commuters into the city's central business district dropped by 4,500, or 9 percent, according to a new report from Commute Seattle.
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
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By almost any quantifiable safety metric, the helmet fixation has failed. People bike at low rates in the U.S. compared to international peers, and suffer higher injury and fatality rates per mile of cycling.
Suburban Segregationist Brooks Patterson Breaks Up Detroit’s Hard-Won Transit Coalition
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Representing the region's primarily white northern suburbs, Patterson is blocking a transit measure that would improve job access for black Detroiters.
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Another Con
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The White House outline does nothing to reform a half-century of highway-centric federal policy that has left America choking on traffic.
Philadelphia’s Boulevard of Death
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Roosevelt runs through one of the nation's biggest cities, but six miles of the street don't even have sidewalks. Instead, every design cue drivers encounter urges them to speed.
Texas DOT Aims for More People to Get Killed in Traffic
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Texas is still planning for more traffic and more asphalt, and as a result, its forecasts still expect a growing number of people to lose their lives in traffic crashes.
Evidence From Boston That Uber Is Making Traffic Worse
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Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft are exacerbating rush-hour traffic jams in Boston, according to new research by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.