Flawed Environmental Laws Threaten to Preserve Parking and Block Housing
Seattle has a housing affordability problem, and there are serious institutional barriers to fixing it. Among the most substantial is the fact that most of the city is zoned exclusively for single-family housing.
December 14, 2016
Is E-Commerce Increasing Urban Truck Traffic? Don’t Be So Certain
The conventional wisdom holds that the boom in online retail is causing a big increase in truck traffic. But economist Joe Cortright at City Observatory is skeptical.
December 13, 2016
Send in Your Nominations for the Best Street Transformation of 2016
With less than three weeks left in the year, Streetsblog is now accepting your submissions for Best Street Transformation of 2016.
December 12, 2016
Toronto’s Simple Measure to Cut Traffic and Improve Transit: Toll Highways
American elected officials are notoriously skittish about turning freeways into toll roads, but in Canada's biggest city the political stars are aligning to put a price on two major highways.
December 9, 2016
How Much of Your City Is Really Urban?
Editor's note: Read to the end of this post for an important update on the Streetsblog Network.
December 9, 2016
UPS Begins Delivering Packages via E-Trike in Portland
Delivery trucks are terrible for city streets, polluting the air, blocking bike lanes, endangering pedestrians and cyclists. But cities need the goods they carry.
December 8, 2016
How to Spend a Fortune on Roads and Make Potholes Worse
The conventional wisdom about America's infrastructure woes is that cash will solve everything. That's the pitch Donald Trump is making with his vaguely-defined $1 trillion infrastructure package.
December 7, 2016
From Pennsylvania, a Preview of How Trump & Co. Might Bully Cities
How much will cities be threatened by the impending Trump presidency? An early front in this confrontation concerns immigration.
December 5, 2016
Study: Diagonal Intersections Are Especially Dangerous for Cyclists
This week, Cambridge, Massachusetts, unveiled plans for a "peanutabout" that will make a tricky intersection with irregular angles safe for cycling. This type of design intervention could be crucial for locations that new research suggests are especially dangerous.
December 2, 2016
Getting On-Street Parking Tech Right
Getting the price of on-street parking right is important for commercial areas in cities. Setting prices to ensure that about one space per block remains open reduces double-parking, cuts down on unnecessary traffic, and can speed up buses as a result.
December 1, 2016
