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Why Seattle Should Boot Cars Off Its Busiest Street for Buses

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 22, 2017 | No Comments

Seattle is booming, and in downtown, transit has been absorbing most of the city's growth in travel. With the streets full during rush hour, the only way to increase capacity is to reallocate street space from cars to more compact modes like buses and bikes.

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A Six-Point Plan to Cut Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 21, 2017 | No Comments

If we're going to create a safer transportation system, we're going to have to drive less, and a new study of travel and development patterns in Massachusetts sheds light on what can be done to cut down on traffic. Here are the six factors researchers identified that affect the amount people drive.

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Kansas City Will Take a Serious Look at Removing Downtown Highway

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 17, 2017 | No Comments

Rochester just converted part of its Inner Loop highway into a surface street, a similar project is underway in New Haven, and freeway teardowns are in play in many other American cities. Now you can add Kansas City to the list of places getting serious about removing a highway to save money, improve walkability, and open downtown land for development.

Where bus crowding is most intense. Map: DDOT

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Want to See Where Transit and Biking Need a Boost? D.C. Has a Map for That

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 16, 2017 | No Comments

Most places in the U.S. still use 20th century metrics to measure the performance of transportation systems. The emphasis is still on moving cars, not improving transit service or reducing traffic injuries. One of the exceptions is DC, where the DOT is letting people assess streets according to a different set of priorities.

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To Get More People on Bikes, Louisville Needs to Raise Its Game

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2017 | No Comments

Louisville is making an effort to build out its bike network, adding a number of buffered bike lanes and beginning a network of low-stress "Neighborways" along residential streets. It's a start, but peer cities like Indianapolis and Pittsburgh are doing more to make cycling an appealing way to get around. Here's what Louisville needs to do to catch up.

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Reversing Sun Belt Growth Model, Memphis Looks to Shrink Its Footprint

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2017 | No Comments

Like many Sun Belt cities, Memphis owes its population growth over the last several decades to outward expansion. Since 1998 alone, the city has overseen 15 annexations, occupying a larger footprint than Chicago. But now the city believes that some of its farthest flung territory is more liability than asset.

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