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
We Know the Solution to Transit’s Last Mile Problem — It’s Walking
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To solve the "first and last mile problem," there's no substitute for walkability.
Denver Is Your 2017 Parking Madness Champ!
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Denver's monster parking crater is a classic of wasted urban potential: a huge swathe of land close to downtown, served by three light rail stations, and overwhelmed by massive parking lots for sports stadiums that barely get used much of the year.
Is Your Local Government Falling for the Hyperloop Fantasy?
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There are no functional, real-world examples of a Hyperloop, Tesla founder Elon Musk's long-distance transport concept that involves shooting people through vacuum-sealed tubes in pods that travel at up to 760 mph. And yet a surprising number of government agencies are treating the Hyperloop as a serious proposition.
Enough With the Gondolamania Already
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In American cities, gondolas have mainly served as a distraction from bigger problems facing urban transit systems.
Parking Madness Championship: Denver vs. Poughkeepsie
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Readers have delivered a David vs. Goliath match-up in the final, with Poughkeepsie taking on Denver for the rights to the Golden Crater and -- we hope -- a blistering round of local press coverage calling attention to the shame of parking blight.
Who’s Gonna Get Stuck With the Bill for Seattle’s Highway Tunnel Misadventure?
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Seattle's massive downtown highway tunnel, originally slated at $3.1 billion, is now expected to cost at least $4 billion when all is said and done. Who's going to pay?
The Traffic Safety Establishment Needs to Take More Responsibility for Soaring Pedestrian Deaths
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America's traffic safety establishment has long been focused on "behavioral" explanations for traffic deaths -- things like seatbelt usage and drunk driving. They need to confront their own culpability instead.
3 Steps to Fight Street Harassment
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Cat calls, patronizing enjoinders to "smile," and more aggressive forms of harassment can make walking or biking uncomfortable or threatening. Katie Matchett, an urban planner who writes about pedestrian issues at Where the Sidewalk Starts, says it's up to everyone -- men and women -- to combat it.
Parking Madness Final Four: Atlanta vs. Denver
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This semi-final pits central areas in two major American cities against each other. Only one will have a shot at everlasting shame in the championship match.
Is Portland Losing Its Resolve Against Highway Expansions?
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In the 1970s, some American cities revolted against highway expansion and kept the worst excesses of the interstate construction spree in check. Those cities tend to be the most walkable and transit-oriented places in the nation today. But in Portland that legacy is in jeopardy.
Parking Madness Final Four: Medford vs. Poughkeepsie
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We started off with 16 transit stations, each mired in a morass of parking, and now you can count the number that remain on one hand.
Atlanta’s I-85 Collapse — Another “Carmaggedon” That Wasn’t
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When a heavily-traveled section of Atlanta's I-85 collapsed in a fire last week, the traffic predictions were dire. But the highway disruption appears to be another case of "carmaggedon" that never materialized.