Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Maintenance

The Trouble With Road Salt — And How It Reinforces Car Dependence

By Seairra Sheppard | Feb 28, 2022 | No Comments

Changing the way we salt our roads may be a good immediate fix to help reduce the speed of corrosion. But to really save our infrastructure, we need to rethink the way we’ve built our towns and cities to revolve around the automobile.

Photo: Allegheny County Executive's office via Twitter

Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse Underscores Urgent Need For Fix-It-First Policy

By Kea Wilson | Jan 28, 2022 | No Comments

The collapse of a bridge in Pittsburgh is just a preview of potential disasters to come under the new infrastructure legislation, which continues to allow states to prioritize building new capacity for drivers over repairing existing stuff.

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How Have Biking Conditions Been in CHI Latine Communities This Winter?

By Ruth Rosas | Jan 24, 2022 | No Comments

If they are not cleared, these bikeways that are supposed to help us ride safety instead wind up constraining our mobility.

Don't make people sit through this to get to work if they don't have to. Image: Timbo999, Pixabay,

Virginia Snowstorm Nightmare Highlights Need For Better Transportation Policy

By Kea Wilson | Jan 4, 2022 | No Comments

A record-breaking snowstorm that left countless drivers, including a U.S. senator, stranded overnight on a Virginia highway has some advocates questioning the region's auto-centric transportation system.

Image: Chuck Kennedy via PFA/Creative Commons

Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support Asphalt 'Right-Sizing'

By Kea Wilson | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.

A cyclist is calmly cycling down a well-maintained path with her two dogs. (source: Pekka Tahkola)

How the Dutch Do Winter Bike Lane Maintenance

By Stephen Kurz | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments

If a snowy winter is guaranteed year after year, not budgeting for proper winter maintenance for all modes of transportation, then using winter as an excuse for not being able to implement high quality bicycle infrastructure is like refusing to buy apples and then complaining you can’t make applesauce.

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