Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Weather

The Texas Transportation Commission could approve $600 million in road improvements for the Permian Basin this week, with little regard for the transit needs of the region.

Climate Change Fight Dies in Texas Oil Region

By Aaron Short | Aug 28, 2019 | 3 Comments

An oil-rich region of West Texas is about to get more than half a billion dollars in highway funds so it can continue to pump more crude and frack natural gas — perpetuating a cycle that is causing the destruction of human civilization.

Minneapolis transit officials cut overnight service on the Green Line, displacing scores of homeless people.

Transit Agency Cuts Service To Curb Homeless in Minneapolis

By Aaron Short | Aug 19, 2019 | 9 Comments

Minneapolis's transit agency has started shutting down the city's only 24-hour rail line for two hours per night in a move designed to scatter the homeless, but one which has had an impact on working class riders who just want to get home.

Congratulations to the Winners of the Showers & Snow Photo Contest!

By Tanya Snyder | May 16, 2014

Congratulations to Todd Consentino and Chris Chaney, winners of the Ortlieb Showers & Snow photo contest by the Alliance for Biking & Walking and Streetsblog. We received over 100 photos of rainy, snowy biking and walking from dozens of photographers. Ten photos made it to the final round; of those, two were chosen by a (somewhat buggy) popular vote. […]

Deadline Extended! Vote for the Best Rainy/Snowy Picture

By Tanya Snyder | May 13, 2014

UPDATE: Well, this is embarrassing and a little maddening. We have been hacked through our hack-proof captcha coding. So, we’re shutting this sucker down and calling the winners based on voting as of May 10, when the hacking started. We will steer clear of Google polls in the future, and we sincerely apologize to everyone […]

Transportation Meltdown: The Too Hot to Move Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 19, 2013 | 2 Comments

Stay inside, friends. The heat index is a sizzling 111 degrees here in DC and I’m betting it’s not much better where you are. And heat exhaustion isn’t the only reason to crank the air conditioning or lounge in the kiddie pool. Transportation systems are also breaking down in the heat. Shane Phillips at Better […]

Weathering the Next 108-Year Storm

By Deron Lovaas | Nov 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

Deron Lovaas is the Federal Transportation Policy Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. This article is cross-posted from his blog on Switchboard. The Boy Scout motto (“Be prepared”) should guide state transportation departments (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and transit agencies as we recover from the destruction Hurricane Sandy wreaked. This superstorm was deemed historic for transit […]

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