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Highway Boondoggles: Tampa Bay Express Lanes
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Streetsblog will be serializing the case studies in the report. Yesterday, we looked at Connecticut's $11.5 billion I-95 widening. Today, we focus on a proposed $3.3 billion highway widening in Tampa.
January 20, 2016
What Happened When a Newspaper Became an Advocate for Bicyclists
In too many cities, newspaper coverage of bicycling has stoked some of the darker aspects of human nature. Opinion pieces about bike lanes tend to cater to the reactionary opposition, goading the trolls of the comments section, where casual death threats are standard fare.
January 6, 2016
Meet the Man on a Mission to Make Florida Walkable and Bikeable
Billy Hattaway just might have the most challenging job in any American transportation agency. As the Florida Department of Transportation's lead official on bicycle and pedestrian safety, he's charged with making Florida -- consistently rated among the deadliest states for walking and biking -- safe for people to get around under their own power.
March 30, 2015
The Koch Brothers’ War on Transit
Transit advocates around the country were transfixed by a story in Tennessee this April, when the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity made a bid to pre-emptively kill Nashville bus rapid transit. It was an especially brazen attempt by Charles and David Koch's political network to strong-arm local transportation policy makers. But it was far from the only time the Kochs and their surrogates have taken aim at transit.
September 25, 2014
Complete Freeways? Florida Tries Bike Lanes on Highway Bridges
A few years ago, a person living in a working-class neighborhood of Miami and commuting to the tourism district in Miami Beach could pretty much forget about walking or biking there. Her choices were either to pay for the bus or buy a car, but healthy, active transportation was impossible -- or at least, illegal. Biking and walking were banned on the causeways between the mainland and the barrier islands.
September 25, 2014
Tampa, Florida: A Case Study in Saddling the Poor With Traffic Violence
You'd be hard-pressed to fund a more deadly place for pedestrians in all of the U.S. than Tampa's Hillsborough Avenue.
August 22, 2014
The Most Dangerous Places to Walk in America
Walking should be the healthiest, most natural activity in the world. It is, after all, one of the first things humans learn to do.
May 20, 2014
A Crosswalk Too Far: The Hunt for America’s Least Crossable Street
Last February, Streetsblog readers determined the worst intersection in America. Then you pinpointed a suburban area with streets so windy and disconnected, it would take a seven mile trip to travel between two houses that shared a back yard. And for two years running you've helped shame the nation's most parking-scarred downtowns.
May 14, 2014
It’s Rochester vs. Jacksonville in the Parking Madness Championship!
Forget Huskies vs. Wildcats -- today is all about parking crater vs. parking crater.
April 8, 2014
Parking Madness Final Four: Chicago vs. Jacksonville
We started with 16 parking craters and now we're down to the Final Four of Parking Madness.
April 4, 2014