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
American Developers Are Building Less Parking Per Bedroom
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For four years running, developers have built less parking per bedroom in new construction.
Portland Will Switch From Counting Vehicle Trips to Counting People Trips
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All sorts of biases toward cars and driving are baked into traffic engineering conventions. In a promising development, Portland is taking steps to rethink these rules to promote walkable development.
Is E-Commerce Increasing Urban Truck Traffic? Don’t Be So Certain
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The conventional wisdom holds that the boom in online retail is causing a big increase in truck traffic. But economist Joe Cortright at City Observatory is skeptical.
Send in Your Nominations for the Best Street Transformation of 2016
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Streetsblog is now accepting your submissions for Best Street Transformation of 2016.
New York State DOT on Track to Botch Highway Removal in Buffalo
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Local advocates warn that the agency's replacement design allocates too much space for cars and not enough for people.
Toronto’s Simple Measure to Cut Traffic and Improve Transit: Toll Highways
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American elected officials are notoriously skittish about turning freeways into toll roads, but in Canada's biggest city the political stars are aligning to put a price on two major highways.
How Much of Your City Is Really Urban?
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Many places that get categorized as "suburbs" are actually pretty urban. But the inverse is also true: Large portions of nearly every American city are pretty spread out and suburban in character.
UPS Begins Delivering Packages via E-Trike in Portland
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Delivery trucks are terrible for city streets, polluting the air, blocking bike lanes, endangering pedestrians and cyclists.
How to Spend a Fortune on Roads and Make Potholes Worse
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Simply spending a lot on infrastructure is no guarantee of better transportation conditions. It can easily make things worse.
From Pennsylvania, a Preview of How Trump & Co. Might Bully Cities
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How much will cities be threatened by the impending Trump presidency? An early front in this confrontation concerns immigration.
Seattle Transit Agencies Move Toward Mobile Ticketing
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We have the technology to make transit fare payment faster and more convenient. Agencies around the world are making progress on fare collection innovations that improve riders’ experience — with benefits like shorter trip times, getting more transit trips for your buck, and demystifying the process of buying a fare for new riders. Two Seattle agencies are about to […]
Getting On-Street Parking Tech Right
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Getting the price of on-street parking right is important for commercial areas in cities. Setting prices to ensure that about one space per block remains open reduces double-parking, cuts down on unnecessary traffic, and can speed up buses as a result.