Research Bolsters Case for Cycle Tracks While AASHTO Updates Guide
For decades, dueling camps of cycling advocates have feuded about how to best accommodate riders. Some have pushed for the construction of Dutch-style cycle tracks, arguing that separated lanes make bicycling safer and less intimidating, while others have insisted such infrastructure isolates riders and makes cycling more dangerous than simply remaining within the flow of traffic.
April 27, 2011
On Transpo Bill, Administration Wants Congress to Sort Out The Details
At a networking event for young transportation professionals yesterday, a member of the Department of Transportation's policy team offered insight into the Obama administration's strategy as it attempts to reset the nation's transportation polices.
September 17, 2010
Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal
The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they've quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama's pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama's plan calls for rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, constructing 4,000 miles of rail, and rehabilitating 150 miles of runway over the next six years.
September 8, 2010
Researchers Confirm Link Between Active Commuting and Better Health
It makes intuitive sense that cycling and walking to work regularly would help people stay healthy, but until now there’s only been anecdotal evidence suggesting that places where walking or cycling to work is common also have lower rates of obesity. Bike traffic in Philadelphia. Photo: Kyle Gradinger, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia That changed … Continued
August 20, 2010
Our Waistlines Are Expanding In Sync With Our Car-Dependence
Two
reports released last week underscored the increasing severity of
America's obesity epidemic. And the eye-opening findings add to the
mounting evidence that stopping the spread of obesity and its attendant
health risks will require changes to the nation’s transportation system
as surely as it demands altering our diets.
August 9, 2010
Postcards From Our National Transportation Funding Meltdown
At an event billed as a
“town hall” held at USDOT headquarters yesterday, top department
officials answered questions about the future of the nation’s road,
rail, bus, and bike networks -- even as the prospects of passing a
comprehensive transportation reauthorization bill anytime this year
appear as dim as ever. Already, reauthorization of the transportation
bill is nearly a year overdue, as lawmakers have failed to muster the
will to pay for it.
July 15, 2010