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
Nashville Is Ready to Embrace Transit
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Regional planners have put together a $6 billion transit expansion plan that calls for four light rail lines, three bus rapid transit routes, a commuter rail connection, and more. And it looks like a referendum in Nashville would fare well.
Parking Madness: Norfolk vs. New York
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Today, a terminal station in Norfolk, Virginia, goes up against a stadium complex in Queens.
Seattle Campaign to #GivePedsTheGreen Would Do Away With “Beg Buttons”
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A petition in Seattle is calling on the city to do away with "beg buttons" and automatically give pedestrians a walk signal at every traffic light in its "urban villages" -- areas that are walkable and transit-oriented.
Parking Madness: Little Rock vs. Atlanta
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Of all the places that have been marred by surface parking, the saddest might be city blocks served by transit, where walking should reign and driving should not be necessary. We're seeing in this year's Parking Madness tournament that there's an abundance of these places around the United States.
Portland Advocates Won’t Settle for Business-as-Usual Highway Spending
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Advocates in Portland are challenging the region's business-as-usual approach to transportation planning. They're sick of roads getting most of the funding pie, while transit, biking, and walking get crumbs.
Parking Madness: Poughkeepsie vs. Fairfield
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Two parking-saturated Metro-North station areas are facing off, one on the Hudson Line and the other on the New Haven Line -- it's Poughkeepsie vs. Fairfield.
Transit Advocates Launch Call to Action Against Disastrous Trump Budget
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Dozens of transit projects across the nation -- as well as walking and biking projects that count on funds from the TIGER program -- are under threat unless Congress scraps the hardline budget outline proposed by the White House. Transportation for America is urging people to contact their representatives and oppose the cuts.
Parking Madness: San Bernardino vs. Chicago
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First round action continues, as the downtown parking lots by a multi-modal transit hub in the Inland Empire take on a suburban-style shopping center right next to a Chicago train station.
Soon DC Employers May Pay People to Not Drive to Work
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With a "parking cash out" policy, employers who provide employees with parking benefits also give the equivalent value in cash to workers who don't car commute. Now a version of that idea has been introduced in the DC Council by members Charles Allen, Mary Cheh, and Brianne Nadeau.
Parking Madness: Toronto vs. Malden, Massachusetts
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First round action continues today as Toronto takes on the Boston suburb of Malden. Vote for the worst parking crater to send it through to the round of eight.
Why Is Transit Ridership Falling?
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Transit ridership took a turn for the worse in 2016. In all but a handful of cities, fewer people rode trains and buses, and it’s not just a one-year blip, either. In many American cities, the drop in transit ridership is an established trend. The big question is why.
Parking Madness Tip-Off: St. Louis vs. Sacramento
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Welcome to the first match in the first round of Streetsblog's 2017 Parking Madness tournament, our 16-city bracket highlighting the worst "parking craters" in North America. This year, we're focusing on a specific type of parking disaster: transit stations engulfed by car storage.