Today on the Streetsblog Network, we return to the question of connectivity — or, to translate it out of transpo jargon, how to get there from here. The Transport Politic looks at one of the objections to high-speed rail: that people won’t want to ride it because when they arrive at their destination, transit connections […]

For the last couple of days, there’s been a lot of talk around the Streetsblog Network about a particularly horrific incident on Monday in which a cyclist, Darcy Allan Sheppard, was fatally injured on Toronto’s Bloor Street in an encounter with a car allegedly driven by the former attorney general of Ontario, Michael Bryant. Montréal’s […]

In Portland, Oregon, already one of America’s best cycling cities, a new amenity was unveiled this past weekend: a cycle track, or physically separated bike lane, near Portland State University. For several blocks, it provides a protected place for bikers to ride — by taking a lane from motor vehicle traffic and changing the place […]

A very interesting post today on the Streetsblog Network from getDowntown, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The getDowntown program, which aims to get more people using alternative modes of transportation through a variety of incentives and support systems, is a partnership between the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce, the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, the City […]

Drinking and driving laws vary from state to state, but in Wisconsin, it’s not until your fifth offense that you’re charged with a felony for drunk driving. That’s an awful lot of leeway for a behavior that so often leads to serious bodily harm. But as Urban Milwaukee points out, it’s not just the law […]

Yesterday, I made the trip from Brooklyn, NY, to Jersey City, NJ, to visit the Liberty Science Center. It really wasn’t hard to do, although it required three separate transfers — from the F train to the A train, from the A to the PATH train, and then from the PATH to the Hudson-Bergen Light […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’ve got a post from Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic on the importance of funding both intercity and intracity rail, despite limits on the amount of money available. Freemark takes on the argument that investment in transportation within cities should trump the construction of more efficient rail connections between […]

File today’s Streetsblog Network post under "where fantasy meets reality." First, via The Dirt, the blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects, we have a post about the winners of the Reburbia contest, "a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs." Sponsored by Dwell magazine and Inhabitat, the contest garnered some pretty interesting entries, […]

Yesterday we featured a post from The Urbanophile about the political and personal costs of carlessness in a small city. Today, we’ve got something of an antidote to that — an entry from Streetsblog Network member Bike Skirt in Birmingham, Alabama, about the sense of liberation, connection and empowerment that giving up a car can […]

What kind of a statement does car-free living make in a small city? Today on the Streetsblog Network, Aaron Renn at The Urbanophile poses that question in a provocative post. Sure, it’s about walking the walk of sustainable transportation, he says, but it also represents a withdrawal from the community structure in places such as […]

Today from the Streetsblog Network, a look back at the early days of paved roads in the United States and the vehicle operators who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit’s  M-Bike.org reminds us, were bicycles: What’s missing from this cake? The Woodward Avenue Action Association […]

Congratulations, it looks like your city is going to be getting high-speed rail service. Just one thing. Because of various political and economic considerations, the station is going to be located out at the airport — far from any walkable destination and a $12 cab ride from downtown. That’s the scenario that’s currently facing Madison, […]