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The Secrets of Successful Transit Projects — Revealed!

By Payton Chung | Jul 10, 2014 | No Comments

All across America, cities are investing in new transit lines. Which of these routes will make the biggest impact by attracting large numbers of new riders? A landmark report from a team of researchers with the University of California at Berkeley identifies the factors that set successful transit investments apart from the rest. The secret sauce is fairly […]

Be Jealous of São Paulo’s Precedent-Setting New Parking Policy

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 9, 2014 | No Comments

It may not be much consolation after yesterday’s World Cup defeat to Germany, but Brazil should feel at least a twinge of national pride over the groundbreaking new parking policies its largest city has adopted. Late last month, leaders in Sao Paulo approved a strategic master plan that will go a long way toward making […]

Courtland Milloy’s Bike Hate Gets the Smackdown It Deserves

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 9, 2014 | No Comments

Bicyclists, pacificists, and reasonable people everywhere are up in arms today about Courtland Milloy’s outrageous column, published last night on Washington Post’s website, in which he suggests drivers should go ahead and intentionally hit cyclists if they feel like it. By somehow casting people on bicycles as “bullies” and “terrorists” — for reasons that never become […]

Moving Cars vs. Investing in Places — The Struggle for American Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 9, 2014 | No Comments

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett are brawling in the press over a proposed highway project — a fight that exemplifies the enormous rift in America about what transportation policy should accomplish. Walker still thinks about transportation projects the same way the interstate planners of the 1950s thought about them. In […]

The New Way to “Screw Obama” — Poisoning Your Neighbors’ Air

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 8, 2014 | No Comments

Warning: The crazies are getting crazier. Behold the new depth to which macho car culture, blatant anti-environmentalism, and Obama hating has sunk. “Coal rollers” retrofit their pickup trucks to “trick” the diesel engines into thinking they need more gas. The result: big, billowing plumes of black smoke — the better to spew at Priuses and […]

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