Build bike infrastructure and they will ride. It’s true just about everywhere, including San Diego. Thanks to bike counters set up around the region, Network blog Bike SD got data showing that cycling has skyrocketed on two streets where the city added buffered bike lanes last year: In late 2012 SANDAG, the region’s planning agency, installed bike counters around […]

Every April Fools Day, we’ll see several dream scenarios announced on different sites in the Streetsblog Network — you can call them pranks, but they’re also exercises in imagining a better future. This one from Albuquerque yesterday really hit its mark. The team at Network blog Urban ABQ created a post showing Mayor Richard Berry announcing […]

Adding parking spaces might seem like the answer to traffic problems, but it ends up making them much worse. That’s the message in this video produced by the Mexico branch of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, which Paul Barter shared at his blog, Reinventing Parking. Mexico City has been adding parking at a feverish pace — […]

A bill circulating in the Connecticut legislature — HB 6851 — would give state officials greater control over development near transit stations. The measure has met with some resistance because it would weaken powers that have traditionally belonged to local government. But Sandy Johnston at Network blog Itinerant Urbanist says that in Connecticut’s case, that’s probably a […]

Vancouverites go to the polls in May to decide whether to raise sales taxes to fund a slate of transit improvements. But polls show the measure is headed for defeat. Other arguments aside, Jarrett Walker at Human Transit says one supposed “con” — that transit provider TransLink is incompetent and wasteful — ought to be nipped in the […]