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Angie Schmitt

@schmangee
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Recent Posts

Photo: Missi, CC
STREETSBLOG USA

These U.S. Communities Are Making Safety Progress After Jaywalking Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 23, 2022 | No Comments
The Black Lives Matter protests and the pandemic have dramatically shifted the terrain around policing. As a result, the last two years have brought about the first serious rethinking of jaywalking laws in a century, challenging a practically universal American rule that dates back to some of the earliest auto industry lobbying campaigns. Here's what happened next.
STREETSBLOG USA

A Hard Right Turn: The Moment the U.S. DOT Abandoned U.S. Walkers

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 21, 2020 | No Comments
Federal transportation officials have never done much to center the needs of pedestrians in their policies or funding decisions. But in 2012, things took a turn for the even worse.
STREETSBLOG CHICAGO

How Not to Be a Garbage Person When You’re Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 11, 2020 | No Comments
Driving isn’t like a video game. It is part of our lives, part of the legacy we leave as people.
Angie Schmitt may be riding off into the Streetsblog sunset, but she will never be far from the fight for livable communities. We thank her for years of aggressive, important coverage.
STREETSBLOG USA

ANGIE SCHMITT: Goodbye, Streetsblog, I Love You

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2019 | No Comments
After nine years at Streetsblog, writer Angie Schmitt is moving on.
An Uber blocking the bike lane on Valencia. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
STREETSBLOG USA

New Labor Rules for Uber and Lyft Should Help Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 13, 2019 | No Comments
A new California law making Uber and Lyft treat drivers as employees would have transportation benefits, too.
STREETSBLOG USA

The Spectacular Benefits of Tactical Urbanism

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2019 | No Comments
Better safety. Faster journeys. Higher ridership. A review of 20 temporary, low-cost demonstrations finds huge benefits.
STREETSBLOG USA

Seattle May Try to Replicate Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 6, 2019 | No Comments
A City Councilwoman wants to turn a six-block area of Capitol Hill into a low-traffic biking and pedestrian zone.
STREETSBLOG USA

Florida GOP Trying to Kill Transportation Measure

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 5, 2019 | No Comments
A wide majority of Hillsborough County voted to tax themselves for transit and safer streets. The Florida GOP is trying to block it anyway.
Photo: Steve Bott/Wikimedia/CC
STREETSBLOG USA

Democrats’ Climate Plans Lack Vision for Urban Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 4, 2019 | No Comments
So far, no one has seriously grappled with how to help free Americans from over-dependence on driving.
Photo: TransitCenter
STREETSBLOG USA

How Our Transport System is Biased Against Women

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 29, 2019 | No Comments
The world we live in is designed by men — for men. And it continues to endanger women.
STREETSBLOG USA

Bernie Sanders’s ‘Green New Deal’ Could be Greener

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 22, 2019 | No Comments
The Democratic contender's climate plan calls for $300 billion in new transit funding and $600 billion for high-speed rail. But it's not great on highways.
A rear-bikecam shot of the SUV of a motorist who punishment passed, honked, and shouted at Streetsblog's editor back in 2017. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
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British Official Floats Idea of SUV Ban

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 21, 2019 | No Comments
British traffic safety authorities are starting to figure out how dangerous SUVs are for pedestrians. Unlike the U.S., they might actually do something about it.
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