Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Sprawl

Urbanism: Not Just for Lefties

By Ben Fried | | 13 Comments
The American Prospect reports on a bi-partisan panel at the University of Minnesota last week where some dyed-in-the-wool Republicans declared their affinity for urbanism and opposition to sprawl: Policies in favor of dense development shouldn’t be viewed on a left-right spectrum and certainly needn’t be filtered through culture-war rhetoric, the panelists said. In fact, one […]

Wiki Wednesday: Vehicle-Miles Traveled

By Ben Fried | | 1 Comment
Until recently, VMT had been rising steeply in the U.S. In the second installment of our serialized tour through StreetsWiki, we turn to DianaD’s entry on Vehicle-Miles Traveled: Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) is the total number of miles driven by all residential vehicles within a given time period and geographic area. We’re seeing more about VMT […]

Back in the Saddle?

By Brad Aaron | | 9 Comments
Gas Prices Altering Rural Life in More Ways Than One The front page of The Messenger, June 4th, 2008 Brad Aaron is on assignment in the Southeast this week. My hometown of Madison, North Carolina, lies in the Piedmont-Triad region near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, just south of the Virginia line and […]

Northern Virginia Locked In to Congested Roads

By Ben Fried | | 11 Comments
Suburbanites in northern Virginia are finding their streets more clogged with traffic than ever, and, as the Washington Post reported earlier this week, they aren’t about to get bailed out by road-widening projects. Here’s the crux of the problem, told from the Post reporter’s decidedly windshield perspective: Thoroughfares like Rolling Road are the blood vessels […]

Eyes on the Street… All of Them

By Ben Fried | | 6 Comments
NYC Blog directs our attention to the map above, which depicts every street in the continental U.S. Map creator Ben Fry (no relation) posts a larger version on his site, and explains it like so: All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other […]

Obama’s National Transportation Plan Includes Bicycling & Walking

By Damien Newton | | 12 Comments
Democratic front runner Barack Obama just released a campaign "Fact Sheet" entitled, "Strengthening America’s Transportation Infrastructure" (download it). While Hillary Clinton has put forward some outstanding and heavily transit-oriented plans of her own, Obama appears to be the first major party presidential candidate to outline a national transportation platform that explicitly seeks to "create policies […]
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