Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City: How a Remote Red-State City Became a Transit Leader

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 6, 2013 | No Comments

It’s number one in the nation in per-capita transit spending. The only city in the country building light rail, bus rapid transit, streetcars and commuter rail at the same time. And that city — Salt Lake City — is a town of just over 180,000 in a remote setting in a red state. It’s a […]

TOD Stalls as Lenders Continue to Bank on Parking

By Ben Fried | Oct 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

Elana linked to this story out of Salt Lake City in the Capitol Hill headline stack this morning, and it’s worth everyone’s full attention. Derek Jensen reports on what may be the biggest impediment to urbanism of them all: The widespread bias of banks against walkable development. Salt Lake City’s new-urbanism epiphany — fervently backed […]

Let’s Chop Up Superblocks

By Alex Marshall | Feb 22, 2008 | 22 Comments

Forest City’s Atlantic Yards project would create two massive superblocks in Prospect Hts., Brooklyn Portland, Oregon, which has ascended the ranks of cities judged most walkable, bikable, and urbane, benefits mightily from its small 200-foot square blocks, which provide businesses more street frontage and people more streets on which to bike, cycle and walk. These […]

The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking

By Glenn McAnanama | Jan 3, 2008 | 23 Comments

"Pull-in angle parking" on 97th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. The drive to create additional (free) parking for the benefit of New York City’s auto-owning minority takes many shapes and forms. Today, I’d like to take aim at a particular form of curbside parking: "pull-in angle parking." I’ve seen this type of […]