Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Charlotte

Cranes over downtown Denver. Photo: Larry Goodwin, CC

The Critical Climate Change Solution That No One Is Talking About

By Kea Wilson | Apr 24, 2023 | No Comments

A new report has finally put hard numbers to America's most overlooked climate and car-cutting solution: more development in neighborhoods where people don't need to drive everywhere.

Camp North End in Charlotte, N.C., which Tesho Akindele is helping to develop, and Tesho himself. Photos:Camden and Hailey George, CC and Andy Witchger, CC

Can Athletes Help Solve Urbanism’s PR Problem? Soccer Star Tesho Akindele Thinks So

By Streetsblog | Feb 14, 2023 | No Comments

If the typical professional athlete talks about transportation at all, it's usually in the context of a mulit-million SUV commercial. Soccer star Tesho Akindele, though, isn't the typical athlete — and as he transitions out of his career on the field, he wants to make a full-time job out of building walkable, bikeable, equitable cities.

Charlotte Provides the Most Compelling Evidence for E-Scooters Yet

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 30, 2018 | 35 Comments

People like them, much more so than dockless bikes even, new data from Charlotte shows.

Arnulfo Salazar was struck and killed by an officer driving a police car in May. Family photo via GoFundMe

How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 8, 2018 | 16 Comments

Journalists should be more skeptical of police accounts of pedestrian deaths.

Even though they weren't asked for it, consultant Kimley-Horn drew a fantasy map that would involve new projects designed and built by firms like Kimley-Horn. Image via CATS

Charlotte Transit Has Problems That Expensive Fantasy Maps Won’t Fix

By Stephen Miller | May 10, 2017 | 7 Comments

Kimley-Horn, a multinational consulting firm looking to plan the next phases of the Charlotte area's rail expansion, also has ideas for new rail lines above and beyond the region's long-term blueprint -- projects that would be designed and built, naturally, by multinational consulting firms like Kimley-Horn. Trouble is, the firm's fantasy exercise does nothing to address the real challenges facing Charlotte's transit network.

It’s “Transit Christmas” for These Bus and Train Projects in Obama’s Budget

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 3, 2015 | 10 Comments

In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year 2016. Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and Talking Headways fame called it “Transit Christmas.” Though the […]

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