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U.S. DOT to Publish Its Own Manual on Protected Bike Lanes

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2014 | No Comments

Before the end of this year, the Federal Highway Administration will release its own guidance on designing protected bike lanes. The agency’s positions on bicycling infrastructure has matured in recent years. Until recently, U.S. DOT’s policy was simple adherence to outdated and stodgy manuals like AASHTO’s Green Book and FHWA’s own Manual on Uniform Traffic […]

In Tenth Year of Park(ing) Day, Parklets Bloom on Six Continents

By Payton Chung | Sep 22, 2014 | No Comments

Cities on six continents celebrated Park(ing) Day on Friday, in its tenth year of temporarily transforming curbside space for cars into public spaces for people. Some of the pop-up parks that caught our eye this Park(ing) Day include: Providence pulled out all of the stops this year, with 32 parklets — and a pop-up protected bike lane down […]

What AASHTO’s “Top Projects” Tell Us About State DOT Leadership

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 19, 2014 | No Comments

Who can build the biggest road slab the fastest? Those seem to be the major criteria used by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to determine the “best” projects by state DOTs across the country. In another sign that most state Departments of Transportation should still be called “highway departments,” there are […]

Why Transit Agencies Should Woo “Bohemian Boomers” and “Metro Moms”

By Payton Chung | Sep 18, 2014 | No Comments

A new national survey released today by TransitCenter seeks to understand not just the who, but also the why, of Americans’ increasing transit use. The survey found that Americans’ feelings towards transit and cities vary considerably by age, personal values, and whether transit provides a feasible travel option in their neighborhoods. Factors that don’t have much […]

Census Finds DC and NYC Bike Commuting Has Doubled in Four Years

By Michael Andersen | Sep 18, 2014 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For the first and second U.S. cities to start building networks of modern protected bike lanes, the payoff seems to have arrived. In both Washington, DC, and New York City, the rate […]

Southern California Road Agency Courts Bankruptcy With Highway Addition

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 18, 2014 | No Comments

Today, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group released a new report, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future.” In it, they examine 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. This week we’ve previewed the report with posts about the proposed Effingham Parkway in Savannah, Georgia and the harebrained scheme to […]

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