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Angie Schmitt

@schmangee
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Recent Posts

Biking Way up in Seattle During Highway Closure

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 17, 2019 | No Comments
Biking has almost doubled along major corridors in Seattle as the city enters the fourth day of “Viadoom” — the highly publicized closure of State Route 99. Viadoom — or the “period of maximum constraint,” as city officials have called it was billed as a potentially paralyzing traffic nightmare. Monday began the three week period when […]

Transit Systems Must Address Women’s Safety Concerns

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 16, 2019 | No Comments
A new study shows women are about half as likely to use new rail service as men — especially if they express strong concerns about safety.

Can New Mobility Tech Disrupt Car Dependence?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 15, 2019 | No Comments
A new organization want to help cities use mobility tech to break cars' stranglehold on cities.

Six Ways the Media is Still Blaming the Victim

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 15, 2019 | No Comments
Media tropes emphasize the victim's behavior when a driver hits a pedestrian or cyclist rather than systemic causes, a new study finds.

Local Bike Advocates: E-Scooters Are Game-Changing

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 14, 2019 | No Comments
In Nashville, Kansas City and Baltimore, advocates raised a couple concerns. But they all say scooters seem to be meeting a real need.

Engineers to Pedestrians: No ‘Walk’ Signs for You!

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 11, 2019 | No Comments
The traffic engineering profession says intersections with no "Walk" signal are a-okay. Even as pedestrian deaths soar.

Bird Quietly Ends a Much-Hyped Bike Lane Subsidy

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 10, 2019 | No Comments
Many cities weren't collecting it anyway.

Uber and Lyft Don’t Reduce Cars. Transit Does.

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 8, 2019 | No Comments
Seattle is the only major city that really grew the number of car-free and car-light households in the last five years. It's also the only one that's really grown transit ridership.

Research Explains Why Pedestrians ‘Break the Rules’

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 7, 2019 | No Comments
Pedestrians behave unpredictably when the environment is not accommodating to them, new research using time-lapse video shows.

Richmond, Virginia Shows How to Boost Small-City Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 7, 2019 | No Comments
Richmond built a bus rapid transit line and reorganized its bus routes. Ridership rose 21 percent in a year.

Other States Should Copy Utah’s New Drunk Driving Rule

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2019 | No Comments
The new law lowers the threshold for impairment to .05 blood-alcohol level — which is what experts recommend.

Check Out What Seattle Did with a Dead-End Street

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2019 | No Comments
Basketball anyone? One of the highlights from Seattle's Pavement to Parks program.
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