A few exciting technology-related items have come over the transom in the past couple of days.  First, courtesy of Streetsblog Network member Living Car-Free in Big D, news of Walkshed, a prototype web application to measure walkability. Building on the concept embodied by the popular Walk Score app — which allows users to see what […]

In honor of International Walk to School Day, we’re going to look at a post from Minnesota’s Twin Cities about what you might call Wouldn’t It Be Great If You Could Walk Your Kid to Preschool Day. Streetsblog Network member Net Density makes the excellent point that for parents of preschool-age children, having child care […]

Our first user-generated slide show, on bike traffic, was a lot of fun. (See it here.) This time out, we’re looking for pictures that show cars — the most inefficient form of transportation — hogging public space. Reader Evan Goldin has already sent along a few, including the image at right, which he snapped with […]

The city of Detroit has gotten a lot of attention recently, most of it lamenting how far its fortunes have fallen. Time magazine has even sent reporters to live in a Detroit neighborhood for a year, covering it as if it were a foreign country — which, in a sense, it is. Foreign at least […]

The other night I was talking with a friend who wants to give up his family’s car but is having trouble convincing his wife that they can do without it. I assured him that it really is possible, given his circumstances — they live in New York, close to several subway lines, and just a […]

Last week we put out a call to readers and members of the Streetsblog Network for photos of bike traffic. We got a ton of great responses, and in the slide show below, you’ll see what our readers are seeing around the country: bikes in action, and in growing numbers. Many thanks to Bike Portland, […]

Today one of our Streetsblog Network members picks up on some ideas in the latest New York Times article about distracted driving, which focused on workers who multitask in their cars using a variety of electronic devices. The Chicago Bicycle Advocate, which is written by a personal injury attorney, says that only the threat of […]

Following up on something we wrote about a couple of weeks ago — the absurd lack of public transportation options for fans heading to the flashy new Dallas Cowboys Stadium — we have a post from Streetsblog Network member Extraordinary Observations: Photo by K. Muncie via Flickr. The parking situation disaster at Cowboys Stadium that […]

If you’ve been following bicycle blogs for any amount of time at all, you’ve probably stumbled upon Mikael Colville-Andersen, who runs the blogs Copenhagenize and Copenhagen Cycle Chic. (We often feature his posts on the Streetsblog Network.) On Tuesday afternoon, he brought his inimitable style of bike advocacy (pretty spiffy, though low-key) to Columbia University. […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’re featuring a post from San Francisco’s Pedestrianist about two-way street conversions in Minneapolis and how such changing traffic patterns could benefit pedestrians and other users: The city of Minneapolis is about to return two of its downtown streets to two-way traffic after nearly 30 years of one-way flow. Those […]

We got an e-mail yesterday from network member James Rowen, who writes the Political Environment blog in Milwaukee. Rowen wanted to be sure we hadn’t missed his recent posts on last week’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman (we had — so thanks for the heads-up). Adelman’s ruling could delay or halt the ongoing […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, some thoughts on women and transportation coming out of the current annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, courtesy of The City Fix. Writing about yesterday’s panel discussion on investing in the well-being of women and girls, Erica Schlaikjer says: Much depends on her ability to move about freely. Photo […]