Roll On! Arkansas Passes the 'Idaho Stop'
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Arkansas becomes the second state to fully adopt Idaho's famous 1982 cycling safety law.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Arkansas
Protected Bike Lanes Are Sprouting Up in Walmart Country
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Can protected bike lanes get people biking for transportation in northwest Arkansas?
Arkansas Wants to Widen Highway, Eliminate Streetcar for “Safety”
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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
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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 […]
New Threat: States Robbing From Education to Pay for Highway Expansions
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Last week, protesters gathered on the statehouse steps in Little Rock, Arkansas, to oppose a bill that would transfer money from the state’s general fund into its highway fund. The 100 or so protesters — mainly from the education and social services sectors — warned that the legislation would transfer $2.3 billion in revenue over 10 […]
$10,000 Extra? The Transportation Tab for Sprawling ‘Hoods in 20 Metros
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$10,860 in New York City. $5,694 in St. Louis. $4,199 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That’s what it will cost you, on average, in additional transportation costs to live in a sprawling, car-dependent neighborhood over one that is well-connected and transit-rich. That’s according to a new analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, produced for Better Cities […]