Blast from the past. (Photo: Payton Chung via Flickr) The construction of the interstate highway system defined the landscape of late-20th-century America. What will be the transformative infrastructure of the 21st century? As Noah Kazis wrote on Streetsblog NYC a couple of days ago, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) would […]

Bananas, bicycles and an appropriate police response. (Photo: Bike Denton) Today from Texas, the story of some teenagers who thought it would be fun to throw stuff at people riding bicycles — and of some police officers who thought what they did was serious enough to track them down and stop them. The account comes […]

An old streetcar line built by a private developer in Richmond, Virginia, around the turn of the last century. (Photo via North Richmond News) Could private developers be the key to developing the nation’s transit infrastructure? That’s the question that has engaged many members of the Streetsblog Network over the weekend. The catalyst for what […]

Detroit — and other struggling cities — should be themselves rather than trying to emulate urban "cool kids." (Photo: Sagittariuss via Flickr) How should cities think about branding themselves? Even if the whole idea of "branding" a city is distasteful to you, keep reading. Because yesterday’s post about "The Authentic City" on Aaron Renn’s The […]

McMansions overlook a strip mall parking lot in Franklin, Wisconsin. (Photo: John Michlig via Flickr) This morning on the Streetsblog Network, a cry of frustration from member blog Sprawled Out in the Milwaukee suburb of Franklin, Wisconsin. Sprawled Out’s John Michlig has been looking at some of the findings from the Brookings Institution’s "The State […]

This path on New York’s Randall’s Island gives cyclists plenty of space. (Photo: BicyclesOnly) Get ready for another Streetsblog Network slide show. This time, in honor of National Bike Month, we’re looking for pictures of bicycle infrastructure that you love. Lanes, trails, paths, signs, signals, parking, you name it — we want to see the […]

Plans for a highway widening in Portland, Maine, make little room for pedestrians. (Photo: Rights of Way) This morning on Streetsblog Network, Rights of Way, a blog in Portland, Maine, writes about how the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is trying to push through a highway-widening plan near the city’s scenic Back Cove. Despite a […]

Searching for clarity when road users conflict. (Photo: squacco via Flickr) Today on the Streetsblog Network, Boston Biker takes issue with a recent column in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine about how people on bicycles need to "earn" respect on the road. In the view of the Globe’s Doug Most, it’s essentially the responsibility of […]

Not as appealing as they once were. (Photo: Scorpions and Centaurs via Flickr) The suburbs of America are not what they used to be. And neither are the cities. This morning, The Political Environment pointed us to an article on the Huffington Post about "The State of Metropolitan America," a new Brookings Institution report on […]

Should peak-hour Metro commuters pay a surcharge in the most congested part of the system? (Photo: roboppy via Flickr) This morning on the Streetsblog Network, there’s a lively and intelligent discussion going on at Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit over the question "Should fares be higher during peak hours?" The Human Transit post was sparked by […]

Just saying it’s a bike boulevard doesn’t necessarily make things better for bikes. (Photo: Reno Rambler) Think of a street as being like an ecosystem, in which various users — pedestrians, drivers, bicyclists — move through an environment, sometimes enhancing it and sometimes damaging it. When a street is out of balance, users suffer. So […]

Bike lanes are going in on Pennsylvania Avenue — and that makes some motorists mad. (Photo: Eric Gilliland via Flickr) In the last couple of days, several of our Washington, D.C.-area contributors have been writing about anti-cycling rhetoric coming from the local AAA chapter. AAA Mid-Atlantic has been obliging reporters looking for inflammatory quotes in […]