Sarah Goodyear

Today from the Streetsblog Network, a look back at the early days of paved roads in the United States and the vehicle operators who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit's  M-Bike.org reminds us, were bicycles:

Congratulations, it looks like your city is going to be getting high-speed rail service.

Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington counters the accusation that, just because he believes in less autocentric development, he hates cars. In an extremely eloquent and thoughtful post, Alpert makes the distinction between "no more cars" and "not more cars":

Sometimes, and with some people, intuitive arguments just don't cut it. It's good to have some facts and figures at hand. That's the topic of today's featured post from the Streetsblog Network. On member site Worldchanging, Clark Williams-Derry wrote:

Today on the Streetsblog Network, Austin Contrarian counts the ways that too much parking can damage a downtown:

The troubled relationship between cars and bikes is an old topic, but that hasn't stopped it from being a hot one on the Streetsblog Network and around the web in general this week. And it's not going to go away any time soon.

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we bring you a post from Greater Greater Washington in which a bus and a bicycle have a bad encounter, leading to a discussion about windshield perspective (that bus has a mighty big windshield) and sharing the road. Antonio López writes:

We talk a lot on this blog about abstractions -- theories of urban development, economic hypotheses, planning paradigms. But in the end, it all has to play out in the real world. And the real world of transportation is about one simple thing: moving your body from one place to another place.

Density, density, density. It's something of a mantra in sustainable transportation circles. But in today's featured post from the Streetsblog Network, UrbanCincy points to the cautionary example of Atlanta -- a place that could perhaps best be described as dense sprawl.

It's been nearly ten months since we first started building the Streetsblog Network -- a group of bloggers around the country and around the world who write about livable streets, transportation policy, sustainable development and related topics. To find these folks, we asked our friends for tips and then went out hunting on the Internet. We mined blogrolls, took suggestions, chased down tantalizing links and always stayed open to the possibility of serendipity.