Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Studies & Reports

FHWA: Small Investments in Bike/Ped Infrastructure Can Pay Off in a Big Way

By Tanya Snyder | May 1, 2012 | No Comments

If you ever doubted whether a small investment in biking and walking could have a large impact, here is your proof. The last transportation law, SAFETEA-LU, provided four communities with four years of funding to build an infrastructure network for nonmotorized transportation (a fancy way of saying “sidewalks and bike paths”). It wasn’t a lot […]

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Study: Low-Income Neighborhoods Much More Likely to Have Dangerous Roads

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 25, 2012 | No Comments

Who suffers most from bad road design? Not surprisingly, the answer is poor people, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers examined injury rates for pedestrians, drivers and cyclists over a five-year period in Montreal. They found pedestrians living in low-income neighborhoods were more than six times more likely […]

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U.S. PIRG Report: Young Americans Dump Cars for Bikes, Buses

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 5, 2012 | No Comments

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group has been crunching the numbers on travel preferences among young Americans — and the news is not good for auto makers. The report — Transportation and the New Generation — is chock-full of nuggets like this: Driving is down: “From 2001 to 2009, the annual number of vehicle miles […]

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Mixed-Use Development Delivers Huge Public Returns Compared to Sprawl

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 24, 2012 | No Comments

Walkable development pays — that’s the conclusion of a study recently outlined in Planetizen. For cities and towns facing tight budgets — just about everywhere in the United States right now — the smart way to boost tax revenue is to encourage mixed-use, walkable development, as the above graphic amply illustrates. The for-profit development company […]

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Bike-Ped Traffic, Funding, and Fatalities All Inch Upward

By Ben Goldman | Jan 23, 2012 | No Comments

One day before President Obama’s State of the Union Address, the Alliance for Biking and Walking has released its 2012 Benchmarking Report. Once again, the report indicates, nonmotorized transportation is getting shortchanged by federal funders, while pedestrians and cyclists make up a disproportionately large share of all traffic fatalities. The Alliance looks at all 50 […]

Study: Painted Bike Lanes Don’t Endanger Pedestrians or Anyone Else

By Noah Kazis | Jan 6, 2012 | 16 Comments

New York City’s tabloid media simply can’t stop seeing the city’s bike boom as a mortal threat to pedestrians. Even research showing a decline in the number of bike-ped crashes was somehow spun to say the opposite, that more cyclists were hitting pedestrians than ever. Now, new peer-reviewed research confirms once again that bike lanes […]

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