Oh Boise! Idaho Judge Blames Cyclist for Crash
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The epidemic of "windshield bias" in cops comes to Boise.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Idaho
The Small-City Vision Zero Challenge
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Smaller cities with limited budgets present particular traffic-safety problems. Here's how some transportation planners managed the issues.
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.
Parking Madness Final Four: Camden vs. Fort Worth
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We started this Parking Madness tournament with 16 soulless parking craters from California to New Jersey, and you’ve narrowed it down to the Final Four: Camden, Fort Worth, Syracuse, and the very aptly-named Parkersburg, West Virginia. Today and tomorrow your votes will determine who gets a shot at the title and Streetsblog’s coveted Golden Crater. Camden Joseph Russell […]
Housing Market Study: Idahoans Demanding Walkable Urbanism
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People in Idaho, Montana, and Colorado want to live in walkable places. That’s the finding of a recent housing market study by Sonoran Institute, a group that supports conservation and community development in the American West. The institute examined thousands of home sales around six cities in those three states since 2009. Only about 16 […]
The Smart Land Use Program Both Democrats and Republicans Love
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The Linen Building in Boise, Idaho, is the kind of local success story that makes the EPA’s Brownfields program so popular. In the late 1990s, this former commercial laundry had become a blight on the city — a large vacant building in a prime, walkable downtown location. Developers admired it, but they knew that the former […]