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Give to Streetsblog and You Could Win This Spiffy Tern Folding Bike

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2015 | 1 Comment

If you’re reading this post, chances are you care deeply about creating safe, sustainable, and equitable streets. As we look toward 2016, Streetsblog is calling on our most important supporters — our readers! — to sustain our work covering the movement for streets and transportation systems where people take precedence over cars. Your tax-deductible donation will support reporting that holds policy-makers accountable and […]

You Won’t Soon Forget These Photos of Ghost Bikes. That’s Exactly the Point.

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 11, 2015 | 2 Comments

You’ve seen them, locked to signposts on the side of the road. Maybe you’ve helped install one. Maybe you’ve cried at the sight of them. Ghost bikes memorialize people who have been killed while riding bikes. The bikes don’t usually stay up for more than a few weeks or months before the city removes them […]

Transit Union Slams DRIVE Act

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 31, 2015 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, the Senate passed both a three-month transportation extension and a six-year reauthorization bill (albeit with three years of funding), which the Senate hopes to workshop with the House in the fall. The bill’s name itself — the DRIVE Act — raised the hackles of transit advocates. Looking deeper, it seems those advocates have more […]

With New Rule, Feds Forget Their Own Best Ideas on Street Design

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 30, 2015 | 2 Comments

Antiquated, car-oriented road design guidance is losing its vise grip on our cities. Other manuals are challenging the dominance of the “design bible” issued by AASHTO, the coalition of state DOTs. But the federal government might be missing an important opportunity to enshrine street safety for all modes. Over the past few years, the Federal Highway Administration […]

Today’s Headlines

By Katie Pearce | Jun 29, 2015

Taxes Have Proved the Sticking Point for Transpo Bill (The Hill) DC Metro Gets $150M in Senate Bill (WaPo) Google Will Help Pinpoint Every Rail Crossing in America (NYT) Will Anthony Foxx Make a Senate Run? (The Hill) Not Relying on Feds, NC Plans for Controversial Privately Run Tolls (Bloomberg) Oregon Governor Pulls Plug on Gas Tax […]

See You in September — I’m on Maternity Leave!

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 2, 2015 | 14 Comments

Greetings loyal readers. This is a friendly public service announcement to let you know that I will be on maternity leave for 12 weeks beginning tomorrow. I’ll be back to a somewhat regular schedule, hopefully still able to form complete sentences, when September rolls around. In the meantime, we’re very lucky to have veteran Streetsblog USA editor Tanya Snyder filling […]

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