Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Arkansas

Poppies on a downtown square in Fayetteville. Photo: Brandonrush, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

No Minimum Parking Requirements? No Problem for Fayetteville, Ark.

By Catie Gould, Sightline Institute | Feb 25, 2022 | No Comments

In 2015, the city council of Fayetteville, Arkansas, adopted a radical but simple idea: do away with minimum parking mandates and let businesses decide how much parking they need. How did that work out?

Five State Capitals You Can’t Access Without A Car

By Kea Wilson | Jan 27, 2020 | No Comments

Why is it so hard to get to many state capitals without a car?

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signs Idaho Stop Legislation. Photo courtesy of Arkansas State Parks

Roll On! Arkansas Passes the 'Idaho Stop'

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 3, 2019 | 35 Comments

Arkansas becomes the second state to fully adopt Idaho's famous 1982 cycling safety law.

This temporary protected bike lane is one of several in northwest Arkansas supported by the Walton Family Foundation. Photo: Walton Family Foundation

Protected Bike Lanes Are Sprouting Up in Walmart Country

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 22, 2016 | 3 Comments

Can protected bike lanes get people biking for transportation in northwest Arkansas?

Arkansas Wants to Widen Highway, Eliminate Streetcar for “Safety”

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 26, 2015 | 8 Comments

Where to even begin with this? Officials in Arkansas are pushing a plan to widen a partly elevated highway through the center of Little Rock from six lanes to 10 lanes at a cost of $600 million. It’s bad enough that the state wants to ram an elevated highway through downtown at a time when many cities […]

Arkansas Town Breaks Ground By Eliminating Commercial Parking Minimums

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 9, 2015 | 20 Comments

In an effort to boost development downtown, leaders in Fayetteville, Arkansas (population ~80,000), last week eliminated minimum parking requirements for commercial properties citywide. Leading the push were planning commissioners like Tracy Hoskins, whom the Fayetteville Flyer described as a “longtime businessman and developer.” Hoskins argued, persuasively, that businesses are capable of deciding for themselves how many […]

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