A very interesting article in USA Today on the future viability of suburbs came up in our Twitter feed this morning, via Community Research Partners of Columbus, Ohio. The piece, by Haya el Nasser, starts out talking about how population is falling in many of the suburbs that grew most quickly over the last few […]

(Photo: Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious) Hey, we need your help again for our next slide show. This one is going to make you feel good. We’re looking for pictures of kids on bikes — on their own, with their parents, on trailers and seats and Xtracycles and whatever other kind of rig there is. Show […]

Despite the growing national attention to the dangers posed by distracted driving, full accountability for drivers who kill or maim pedestrians while fiddling with electronic devices is likely a long way off. As today’s post from Streetsblog Network member Sustainable Savannah notes, law enforcement officials too often seem to see things from the perspective of […]

We’ve got a fine sampling of content from the Streetsblog Network today. First, Steve Davis at Transportation for America reports on the meeting T4A and several of its partners had with U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday. The meeting was to deliver a petition with more than 4,100 signatures gathered after last week’s release […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog UrbanCincy notes with deserved pride that Cincinnati was ranked the seventh-safest large city for pedestrians in the nation in Transportation for America’s "Dangerous by Design" study. But they aren’t resting on their laurels. In today’s post, they call on the city to improve pedestrian infrastructure further with the […]

Over the weekend, we came across an article from the Isthmus of Madison, Wisconsin, reporting on a conservative scaremongering campaign against a commuter rail proposal. It quotes a leader in the Wisconsin Republican Party painting transit-oriented development as a red menace: "This has been done before," Dane County Republican Party spokesman Bill Richardson said on […]

Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: We love transit. Love love love. But that’s why we hate it so much when transit infrastructure and transit riders are neglected. And they are. The nation’s buses and trains and light rail are too often underfunded, dismissed, vandalized and disrespected. Transit riders deserve better. We […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’ve got a powerful demand for safer streets in Florida. Transit Miami has posted an open letter to Florida Governor Charlie Crist and the state’s DOT, calling them to account for the lamentable showing the Sunshine State makes in Transportation for America’s recent report on pedestrian fatalities, "Dangerous by Design." […]

The difficulty of changing our ingrained daily habits — even for our own good, not the health of the planet — is the subject of today’s post from Streetsblog Network member Twin City Sidewalks. The blog’s author, Bill Lindeke, writes about the recently concluded "Blue Zones" project that was conducted in Albert Lea, Minnesota, under […]

The Dangerous by Design report on pedestrian fatalities from Transportation for America and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership has been getting a lot of attention from the Streetsblog Network (and from the national press) this week. Researched by Michelle Ernst of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, the analysis in the report gives advocates a powerful tool […]

Yesterday, as I was scrolling through the Streetsblog Network feed, I came upon this headline from network member Sprawled Out: "We Americans are all infrastructure — and no people." I clicked through right away, because that line had so much resonance for me. The post turned out to be a link to a story from […]

This morning on the Streetsblog Network, Smart City Memphis lays out what they call "Downtown’s case against City Hall for abandonment." The post details how politicians systematically pulled financial and planning resources out of the city’s core, even as they touted the importance of a vibrant city center for Memphis’s future: Money in Memphis has […]