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One-Day Protected Bike Lane Demos Have Swept America this Summer

By Michael Andersen | Aug 14, 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. This is what a tipping point looks like. Around the country in the summer of 2014, community groups across the United States have been using open-streets events and other festivals to give […]

Oil-Laden Freight Trains Delaying Amtrak, Commuter Trains Across U.S.

By Steven Vance and Payton Chung | Aug 14, 2014 | No Comments

Oil production is booming across North America, as new technologies make it possible to extract liquid crude oil from sources like the Bakken shale oil field in North Dakota and Montana, or Alberta’s tar sands. The ever-increasing volume of crude oil mined in remote Great Plains locations often finds its way to refineries via “rolling pipelines” – freight […]

After Cyclists Protest, Toronto Will Protect Downtown Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 13, 2014 | No Comments

In a victory for bike safety in Toronto, officials have agreed to add protective posts to three new downtown bike lanes. Toronto striped two buffered bike lanes in July and is preparing to add another. Local cyclists were expecting the lanes to have some physical protection to keep out illegally-parked cars and shield riders from […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Zoned Out

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 13, 2014 | No Comments

Welcome to the dog days of summer! Before skipping town, Congress passed a transportation funding patch so they wouldn’t have to deal with the real problem of the unsustainable way our nation builds and pays for infrastructure. I give the briefest possible rundown of where we are now before Jeff and I launch into discussions about the issues of the […]

The Plan to Build Bicycle Highways Where Cleveland’s Streetcars Once Ran

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 12, 2014 | No Comments

Like many cities in America, Cleveland grew into its own as a streetcar city. In the early part of the last century, hundreds of miles of streetcars connected all corners of the city as well as its inner suburbs. The streets where tracks carried passengers — Lorain, Superior, Euclid — were the circulatory system of the […]

Al Jazeera America Talks Parking Craters With Streetsblog

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 11, 2014 | No Comments

The term “parking crater” made its cable news debut last week, when I was invited to appear on Al Jazeera America’s “Real Money with Ali Velshi.” Here’s the segment that aired on the show. Velshi wanted to discuss recent research out of the University of Connecticut showing how too much parking harms a city’s tax base. […]

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