Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Highway Administration

FHWA to Engineers: Go Ahead and Use City-Friendly Street Designs

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 28, 2014 | No Comments

The heavyweights of American transportation engineering continue to warm up to design guides that prioritize walking, biking, and transit on city streets. On Friday, the Federal Highway Administration made clear that it endorses the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Street Design Guide, which features street treatments like protected bike lanes that you won’t find in […]

FHWA: Bike-Ped Investments Pay Off By Cutting Traffic and Improving Health

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 26, 2014 | No Comments

Nine years after launching a program to measure the impact of bike and pedestrian investments in four communities, the Federal Highway Administration credits the program with increasing walking trips by nearly a quarter and biking trips by nearly half, while averting 85 million miles of driving since its inception. In 2005, the FHWA’s Nonmotorized Transportation […]

FHWA Proposes to Let States Fail Their Own Safety Goals With Impunity

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 14, 2014 | No Comments

Secretary Anthony Foxx has made clear that safety — and specifically, safety for bicyclists and pedestrians — is a priority of his administration. If that’s true, his administration sure has a funny way of showing it. The Federal Highway Administration’s proposal on safety performance measures allows states to fail to meet half their own safety […]

New Layer of Red Tape From FHWA Threatens to Delay NYC Bike Projects

By Ben Fried | Dec 20, 2013 | 26 Comments

The Federal Highway Administration is seeking to impose a new layer of bureaucratic review on New York City bike projects, which could significantly delay the implementation of street redesigns that have proven to reduce traffic injuries and deaths. According to a source in city government, FHWA wants the New York State DOT to review each individual […]

FHWA to Transportation Engineers: Use the NACTO Bikeway Design Guide

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 9, 2013 | No Comments

In a significant step forward for American bike infrastructure, the Federal Highway Administration issued a memorandum late last month essentially endorsing street designs like protected bike lanes. In the memorandum, FHWA urges transportation engineers to use the guidelines issued by the National Association of City Transportation Officials, which contains templates for bikeway designs widely deployed […]

FHWA: Oklahoma DOT Must Consider Restoring Street Grid in Downtown OKC

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 24, 2013 | No Comments

In a rare victory against state DOT standard operating procedure, residents of Oklahoma City last week managed to compel the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to consider a redeveloped street grid as an alternative to a wide, high-speed boulevard through the city’s downtown. A highly-organized group of volunteers calling themselves Friends of a Better Boulevard has been […]

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