OK, so we still really don’t like the name of the DOT Secretary’s blog, The Fast Lane. (Not to mention the design — could someone do something about those graphics, please?) But more and more, we like what we’re reading there. Like yesterday’s post, titled "Bicycling Is an Important Factor in Less Carbon-Intensive Commuting," in […]

If you’re interested in transportation policy (and we know you are!) it can sometimes seem as if all the problems plaguing America have their root there. Today, we have a reminder from Streetsblog Network member Cap’n Transit that not even transportation can cure all ills. But we also have some very hopeful news from columnist […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we hear about the possible misuse of stimulus funds for the widening of the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike in New Jersey. Network member blog Mobilizing the Region, the voice of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, reports that the TSTC has sent a letter to Gov. John Corzine about […]

Today Streetsblog Network member blog Hub and Spokes picks up on an interesting story from the LA Times about how falling real estate values could mean an opportunity to develop more public spaces: An abandoned apartment complex in Tampa, Florida, might become a park instead of luxury condos. Photo by Martha Rial/St. Petersburg Times. With […]

Remember congestion pricing? It’s not much fun to think about what happened to that idea in New York last year. And considering the craziness that’s been going on over bridge tolls in Albany, any kind of road pricing in our fair city certainly seems like a non-starter for the foreseeable future. Traffic in Austin. Photo […]

These days good news can be hard to come by, which is why Kaid Benfield’s most recent post on NRDC Switchboard caught our eye. It’s about the Old North neighborhood of St. Louis, and how revitalization efforts there have taken off: A former kindergarten in the Old North neighborhood of St. Louis that’s being renovated […]

America has a fat problem. You knew that, right? But it’s not just the people who are fat. It’s the roads. That’s the subject of a very insightful post from Streetsblog Network member Tom Vanderbilt, author of the book Traffic and keeper of the blog How We Drive. He makes the connection between the two […]

As today’s post from Seattle Transit Blog acknowledges, criticizing the place where someone lives is one of the surest ways to create division and contention when discussing planning issues: Photo by yuan2003 via Flickr. If I criticize a portion of Bellevue’s cul-de-sac development, a commenter is just as likely to deride my urban elitism as […]

This just in from the Streetsblog Network: Greater Greater Washington takes Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski to task for supporting car sales tax breaks — and asks how that money could be better spent: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) touts tax breaks for car buyers at the 2009 Motor Trend International Auto Show in Baltimore. Photo by […]

Some thoughts today from one of the newest members of the Streetsblog Network — from Missoula, Montana, Imagine No Cars. The blog’s author is a University of Montana student who is chronicling his year of living without a motor vehicle. He calls the blog "a journal of my journey to live a car-free lifestyle. An […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’re talking sidewalks. Specifically, Greater Greater Washington is talking about the lack of sidewalks in many parts of DC where there is a concentration of people who are particularly in need of them: senior citizens. Photo by Dan Burden via Transportation for America. At a recent hearing on DDOT’s budget, […]

A couple of weeks ago I left the transit-rich confines of New York City and headed down South to visit family. I made it all the way to Meridian, Mississippi without getting in a car (I rode the subway to Penn Station and took Amtrak from there), but once I got off the train in […]