A Brief History of How American Transportation Engineers Resisted Bike Lanes
Try to picture American cities if they had started building world-class bike infrastructure en masse in the 1970s, instead of 40 years later. How much safer would our streets be today? How much more active would we be? How many more years would people have enjoyed instead of getting their lives cut short by traffic crashes or chronic cardiovascular disease?
March 2, 2018
A New Neighborhood Will Replace a Sunken Rochester Highway
With a portion of the Inner Loop highway filled in, Rochester is ready to reconnect its downtown to the East End neighborhood.
March 1, 2018
Are American Cities Making Progress on Traffic Safety?
In several cities, traffic fatalities fell much more sharply last year than in the nation as a whole. But it's too soon to draw conclusions.
February 28, 2018
Oregon May Expand Its Petty Bicycle Tax to Children’s Bikes
A bikes-only tax was always a bad idea. Now it could get worse.
February 28, 2018
Boston’s Best Bet for Better Transit: Modernizing Commuter Rail
The region's 390-mile commuter rail system is slow and offers sketchy service. But it has a lot of potential.
February 27, 2018
Is the Hyperloop Taking Cities for a Ride?
The Hyperloop has never carried human passengers. Yet officials signed off on a grant based on the promise of Cleveland-Chicago route in just three to five years.
February 27, 2018
Democracy Dies in… Bus Lanes?
Advocates successfully got Montgomery County to consider adding bus lanes to its BRT plan. Anti-transit NIMBYs see a conspiracy.
February 26, 2018
How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction
Adjusting meter prices increased the availability of spaces while reducing illegal parking.
February 26, 2018
The Environmentalist Blind Spot on Transportation
Cheering for a few more electric cars while highway sprawl continues unabated is not going to solve the climate crisis.
February 23, 2018
The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion
We wouldn't throw people in jail for shorting a parking meter $3. And we shouldn't do it for transit riders either.
February 22, 2018
