Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Vermont

Vermont is the First State in the U.S. to Offer an E-Bike Rebate; Is Yours Next?

By Kea Wilson | Aug 29, 2022 | No Comments

As states across America consider subsidizing the purchase of e-bikes to get people out of cars, Vermont just quietly became the first one to actually do it.

Op-Ed: Vermont’s Lessons for Controlling Emissions

By Richard Watts | Nov 1, 2021 | No Comments

An agency that was built to discourage electric use shows how the best, greenest vehicle mile is the one not travelled.

More Cities Are Clearing Sidewalk Snow

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 21, 2019 | 8 Comments

Rochester, Burlington, Minneapolis, Duluth and Syracuse have either started clearing sidewalks or are moving in that direction.

Parking Madness: Vancouver vs. Rutland

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 18, 2016 | 29 Comments

Welcome to day two of the 2016 Parking Madness tournament. Yesterday, the assortment of surface parking between the Capitol and Union Station in Washington crushed the parking lots that greet people entering downtown Burlington, Vermont. Today pits “Vancouver’s upscale shopping mall” against the parking crater by the train station in “Vermont’s second city,” Rutland. Vancouver, BC The parking crater around the Oakridge […]

Keeping CNN Honest: 10 Ways Anderson Cooper Got the Rail Story Wrong

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 31, 2013 | 82 Comments

Last Friday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ran a segment about high-speed rail as part of his “Keeping Them Honest” series. Reporter Drew Griffin did an “exposé” of a Vermont rail project that spent .00006 percent of the federal stimulus money on needed track improvements and came in on time and under budget. Scandal! It amounts to […]

Biking and Walking Score Big in TIGER III

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 20, 2011 | 4 Comments

In the third round of TIGER funding, the Obama administration has continued to demonstrate a strong commitment to bike and pedestrian projects. Of the 46 projects chosen for funding, 22 incorporate some aspect of bike and pedestrian accessibility, and nine of them make cyclists or pedestrians the primary beneficiary, said Kartik Sribarra of the Rails-to-Trails […]