Thinkwalks Bike Ride: The Big Shift tour

By Abigail Shull
May 18, 2010

"Before cars existed, Golden Gate Park was created as an escape from urban pressures. Instead, it turned into a test tube for the cultural shift from horses and coal gas balloons to bicycles and motor-carriages, from the spectacle of the "Gilded Age" robber barons to a literal refuge for refugees."

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Sustainable Transportation Could Save the World (and Save $100 Trillion)

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 23, 2014

Dramatically expanding transit and active transportation over the next few decades could reduce carbon emissions from urban transport 40 percent more than following a car-centric trajectory. And it could also save the world economy $100 trillion. That’s according to a new report presented recently to the United Nations by researchers at UC Davis and the Institute […]

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Talking Headways Podcast: A Shift in the Short Trip

By Jeff Wood | May 31, 2018

Please welcome back to the podcast Shared Use Mobility Center Executive Director Sharon Feigon. In this episode, Sharon discusses the newest trends in shared mobility, including scooters and e-bikes. We talk about whether the animosity toward ride-hailing has waned, the issues that cities and transportation companies are coming across as they try to create mobility platforms, and whether car-share usage is declining due to more options in the market.

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Measuring the Shift Away From Car Ownership, City By City

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 31, 2013

A new analysis by Michael Andersen at Bike Portland helps illuminate how shifts in car ownership are playing out in different cities. Andersen reviewed Census data from 2005 and 2011. He found that households with less than one car per adult accounted for about 60 percent of Portland’s population growth. About one in four Portland households met […]

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Late Night Workers Could Save Big With 24-Hour Transit

By Aaron Short | Sep 10, 2019

Limited options force the most vulnerable employees to rely on cars, pushing up their transportation costs, a study finds.

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Desperate to Keep Highway Money Flowing, Texas Foists Costs Onto Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 21, 2013

Faced with an impending budget crisis, the Texas Department of Transportation has decided not to rethink its $5.2 billion plan for a third outerbelt through undeveloped grasslands around Houston. Instead, the agency has developed a proposal to basically shift a big part of its costs to the state’s major cities. The Houston Business Journal reports that […]

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SET YOUR CALENDARS: How to Radically Shift the Way the U.S. Does Infrastructure

By Streetsblog Editors | Jun 9, 2021

America is on the brink of making one of the biggest investments in transportation infrastructure in a generation — and the nation needs an even bigger cultural shift towards mobility justice if it wants to do it right.