People see bicycles and bicycle infrastructure in a lot of different ways. In New York, for instance, some politicians and business owners seem to view bike lanes and the people who ride in them as somehow dangerous for small businesses. This in spite of studies that have shown better bicycle facilities are likely to be […]

Bikes on the Governors Island Ferry in New York City. Photo by Benjamin Running. We need your help. We want to see what you’re seeing when you’re out there on the streets of America, and we’re going to be asking you to send us your pictures on specific themes in the weeks to come. This […]

The Overhead Wire has picked up on a piece in Saturday’s New York Times about how light rail ridership in Phoenix has exceeded expectations. The post points out that this isn’t the first time the Federal Transportation Administration has underestimated demand for similar projects, a pattern that has the potential for real consequences: Light rail […]

Today we’re talking development and density. Greater Greater Washington has a post about zoning policies and traffic congestion in Montgomery County, Maryland, where a debate over growth policy that would encourage in-fill development near existing transit is getting heated. David Alpert’s post asks why planning for "low-traffic growth" is so often seen as coercive, whereas […]

On Bicyclelaw.com yesterday, there was a terrible story out of Canada about a crash involving a reckless motorist and law-abiding cyclists. What was the response to the shocking case of careless driving, which left five bikers gravely injured? The local police initiated a ticket blitz aimed at…cyclists breaking the law (one of the offenses often […]

On Monday, we featured a post from The Transit Pass that called out Dallas as one of the U.S. cities in which the proportion of transit users to population is sadly anemic. Today, we’ll take a closer look at transit in the Dallas area, from a couple of angles. The DART light rail system in […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’ve got a post about unfulfilled potential — American cities that could do a lot better at getting people to ride transit. The Transit Pass compares the cities with the top ridership to those with the top population: Riders boarding light rail in Phoenix. Photo by Michael Ruiz via Flickr. […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’ve got a something of a debate going on the subject of putting new transit routes alongside highways in American cities. Last Friday, Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic noted the opening of Portland’s Green Line with a post titled "Portland’s New Rail Line Is Welcome News, but It’s Not […]

New York has them. San Francisco has them. Portland, too. Now St. Louis might be getting its own version of Summer Streets. Streetsblog Network member St. Louis Urban Workshop is happy with Mayor Francis Slay’s proposal to close some of the city’s streets to motor vehicles on summer weekends. But the blog calls for more […]

Today from the Streetsblog Network, a report from Charlotte, NC, on the city’s efforts to deal with derelict big box stores. Mary Newsom at The Naked City reports that a proposed new building code to address the problem is in the works: An abandoned store in Charlotte, NC. The issue is important for neighborhoods where […]

Parking. It takes up a lot of space in the discussion of transportation and planning. No surprise, since one of the main problems with cars is how much space they take up even when they’re not in use. The Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, is no exception. In a post today from Greater Greater Washington, […]

The last time we checked in with the folks down at Sustainable Savannah, it was to get an update on the jaywalking ticket blitz that the city was conducting — not exactly evidence of a progressive attitude toward traffic safety. Today, we’ve got better news. Biking in Savannah: the future is looking brighter. Photo by […]