More Improvements Coming for Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco
Nuala Sawyer provides an update on the ongoing planning effort for the Octavia Boulevard Enhancement project, which will have a public meeting this week in San Francisco.Publication Date: Tue, 04/14/2015
View ArticleReport: Complete Streets Deliver More Than Just Good Vibes
Since the town of Normal in Illinois adopted a complete streets approach, business and walkability have skyrocketed. Laura Searfoss writes, "Today, more than 40 percent of all trips in Uptown Normal...
View ArticleOn the Pros and Cons of Driveways
Are driveways anti-urban? That claim makes sense in North America, where pedestrian and vehicle street spaces are seen as mutually exclusive. The driveway, by definition, breaches a divide by allowing...
View ArticleTactical Urbanism Takes Reno by Storm
Some cities, no matter how vibrant they are, don't want to hear much from outsiders. Not Reno, Nevada.Publication Date: Wed, 05/13/2015
View ArticleDoes Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Have a Bicycle Vendetta?
Walker, a prospective Republican presidential candidate, eyes "savings of $3.7 million a year if the [Complete Streets] program were repealed," writes Publication Date: Wed, 05/20/2015
View ArticleTransportation Professionals: How Should Your 'Professional Obituary' Read?
As the debate between ‘traditional' transportation engineering and ‘smarter cities’, for want of a better description, continues, each transportation engineer or planner needs to ask themselves a basic...
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Cycletracks and Other Improvements Coming Soon to Downtown Los Angeles
Publication Date: Thu, 05/28/2015
View Article$60.2 Million Complete Streets Makeover Planned for MLK Drive in Atlanta
Atlanta is moving forward with complete streets plans for a 7.2-mile stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, from the future site of the Falcons stadium to Fulton Industrial Boulevard, reports David...
View ArticleColumnist Reacts as Complete Streets Come to Lawrence, Kansas
Chad Lawhorn reports, and comments, on changes to 31st Street between Louisiana and Haskell in Lawrence, Kansas. Lawhorn breaks down the $4 million investment in street that will add a singular...
View ArticleSenate Committee Will 'DRIVE' Transportation Reauthorization
"With just over a month left before transportation programs are set to expire, the Senate has a bill on the table that would set state spending levels for roads and bridges all the way out to 2021,"...
View ArticleToronto's New Complete Street: For Everyone, By Everyone
"The recently-opened stretch [of Queens Quay] between Bay and Spadina isn't just the best new street in Toronto," writes Christopher Hume, "it's the most democratic."Publication Date: Sun, 06/21/2015
View ArticleFort Worth Wants Residents to Live Longer
Recently adopted in Fort Worth, the Blue Zones Project "aims to 'reverse-engineer longevity' into a community by promoting a number of principles gleaned from National Geographic explorer Dan...
View ArticleMillennials Lead in Alternate Mobility
Federal transportation funding is scarce, and localities are making up the difference.Publication Date: Wed, 06/24/2015
View ArticleThe Google Street View Perspective on Public Space Transformations
A recent trend in returning the use of streets and other public space to the use of humans and other modes of transportation other than the car is more striking with some historical...
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Surgeon General Warning to Local Governments: Stop Being So Auto-Centric!
It's called active living and it is one of four healthy practices that appear on the Surgeon General's websitePublication Date: Wed, 09/02/2015
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More on the U.S. Surgeon General's Historic Pro-Walking Stance
Emily Badger follows up with the recent pronouncement from the U.S. Surgeon General that cities should prioritize healthy forms of alternative transportation.Publication Date: Wed, 09/09/2015
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Australia's 'Biggest Bike Lane Skeptic'
Duncan Gay is Australia's self described "biggest bike-lane skeptic in the government." He is committed to removing a protected cycleway in Sydney, a decision that the city's Lord Mayor and others...
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Colorado Governor Announces $100 Million Program for Bicycle-Friendly...
"Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday announced a plan to spend more than $100 million over the next four years to make Colorado 'the best state for biking in the country,'" reports Jason...
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'Beyond the 710' Seeks Multimodal Alternatives to Filling Freeway Gap
In the early 2000s, legal battles finally blocked a surface freeway extension across the 4.5-mile stretch where the I-710 was meant to connect to the I-210.Publication Date: Wed, 09/16/2015
View ArticleFeds May Drop 'Highway-Inspired' Rules for Streets
A set of "outdated" rules currently guides street construction, taking inspiration from what works on highways.Publication Date: Thu, 10/08/2015
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