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The traffic garden is a Dutch invention: a safe, controlled environment that gives children a chance to practice bicycling and walking in conditions that mimic city streets. There aren’t many places like this in the United States. But White Center, just outside Seattle, is poised to get one, reports Tom Fucoloro at Seattle Bike Blog: Learning how […]

Come join the Streetsblog and Streetfilms team next month for our annual benefit, the Streets Ball, where you can support a year’s worth of high-impact reporting and videomaking in one spectacular night. Our guests of honor will be Council Member Jimmy van Bramer and Council Member Julissa Ferreras, who’ve been indispensable in the campaign to bring safer […]

Some of the fiercest battles over streets come down to resistance to change — fears that claiming a lane of traffic for transit will cause carmageddon, or that converting parking spaces to bike lanes will starve local businesses of customers. Darin Givens at ATL Urbanist says some of that resistance stems from a failure of imagination. By looking at how […]

Love ’em or hate ’em, big box stores are shrinking their footprints in an effort to fit into city locations. Target just opened its fourth store in the DC area, and Dan Malouff at Beyond DC scoped it out: A miniature Target is now open in Rosslyn, occupying the ground floor of an office tower. At less than a […]

This week community boards will take up street safety in Red Hook, improvements to Brooklyn’s Empire Boulevard, and Citi Bike’s expansion into Harlem. TA will scope east-west bike routes on the Upper East Side, and Amtrak will reveal its Sunnyside Yard master plan. Highlights below. Check the calendar for complete listings. Tuesday: On the agenda […]

Last week, communities around the country celebrated Walk to School Day to encourage kids to get to school the old-fashioned and healthy way. In Seattle, the event was more than a one-off to raise public awareness — it was also the kickoff for a five-year action plan to increase walking and biking to school. While active transportation to […]