Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Streetsblog USA

In too many cities, newspaper coverage of bicycling has stoked some of the darker aspects of human nature. Opinion pieces about bike lanes tend to cater to the reactionary opposition, goading the trolls of the comments section, where casual death threats are standard fare. But a newspaper in South Florida has taken a very different […]

Last spring, Alexander and Danielle Meitiv became public faces of the “Free Range Kids” movement when their children were picked up by police in Silver Spring, Maryland, while walking home from a local park. The sight of a 10-year-old and a 6-year-old unsupervised prompted police to open a child neglect case against the couple. The […]

If you remove a bunch of parking from the center of a city, you’ll get carmageddon, financial ruin, and the complete unraveling of society as we know it — right? That’s what you tend to hear at public meetings when a proposal that would reduce parking comes up, but as this real-life example from Philadelphia […]

Here’s a great visualization of how much land parking spaces consume in our cities, via Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions. Inspired by a post from Copenhagenize, Shane created a map showing the collective size of Los Angeles County’s 18.6 million parking spaces (as estimated by the American Planning Association) if they were arranged […]

Need a reason to feel hopeful for 2016? Check out this video from the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, showing off the city’s new curb-protected bike lane. The N Street protected bike lane covers a 17-block stretch in downtown Lincoln. It includes bike-specific signals and landscaped medians as wide as nine feet. The redesign debuted two […]