City rankings that purport to reveal the best place to raise a family are ubiquitous. Where I live, in northeast Ohio, it’s the homogeneous, sprawling suburbs that tend to be very proud of their positions on these lists. Bradley Calvert at Family Friendly Cities examined the key criteria used by Apartment List to develop its “best […]

Last week, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled “Beyond Traffic,” U.S. DOT’s 30-year framework for transportation. There’s a lot to like inside, says Deron Lovaas at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Switchboard blog. The report does a good job addressing the realities of climate change and discussing how to safeguard our transportation system to the extent possible. It […]

We asked you to point us to the nation’s worst bus stops and you answered. After receiving dozens of nominees from our readers, Streetsblog editors narrowed the pool down to eight very sorry bus stops. These bus stops are ugly. Ugly! In a transportation system where public agencies never seem to lack the money for […]

Commuting in the Silicon Valley is a nightmare, writes Richard Masoner at Cyclelicious, and that’s by design. For the last 50 years, housing and employment growth have occurred in separate areas. And with streets that prioritize car traffic above all, the trip between home and work has gotten progressively more miserable. Masoner decided to give folks […]

There’s nothing conservative about what prospective GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker is proposing for transportation in Wisconsin. Matt Logan at Network blog Forward Lookout reports that the governor is once again dipping into the general fund to support his seemingly insatiable appetite for highway building. He’s also proposing a big round of borrowing. And on top of […]

Here’s an interesting new type of revenue stream for transit. The King County Council, which encompasses the Seattle region, recently enacted legislation enabling Metro Transit to receive revenue from the sale of carbon offsets. Stephen Fesler at The Urbanist explains this noteworthy innovation: The initiative, called the Transit Carbon Offset Program, is an incredibly unique strategy […]

In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year 2016. Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and Talking Headways fame called it “Transit Christmas.” Though the […]

Karen McHugh, 51, was walking on Arcade Avenue in Seekonk outside of Providence Friday night after the snow storm. Had the sidewalks been cleared along the thoroughfare she might still be alive. But McHugh was killed by a hit-and-run driver, and authorities said street conditions might have contributed to the crash. “Police say the snow may […]