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Parking Madness: San Bernardino vs. Houston
With Milwaukee, Tulsa, Dallas, Louisville, Cleveland, and Atlanta advancing to the second round of Parking Madness, there are only two spaces left in the Elite Eight of parking disasters. In this installment, we're looking at two very different cities, each of which is extremely car-centric in its own way. It's San Bernardino versus Houston.
March 28, 2013
Congress to U.S. DOT: The Roads Aren’t Safe Until They’re Safe For Everyone
Yes, traffic fatalities have been (mostly) going down, but as long as cyclist and pedestrian fatalities keep going up, we can’t truly say our streets and roads are getting safer. That’s the message from 68 members of Congress to one pretty receptive audience: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
March 28, 2013
More March Madness: REI Pits Cycling Cities Against Each Other
We hope you're enjoying our Parking Madness Sweet 16-style tournament to determine the most soul-killing parking crater in a U.S. downtown. Here's another one you might like: REI is holding a tournament to determine the best cycling city. Today, Denver and Washington, DC square off in the Suit & Tie Dye region. Tomorrow, it's New York vs. Minneapolis: Concrete Jungle Region.
March 28, 2013
Parking Madness: Atlanta vs Denver
In the race to the bottom that is Parking Madness, Streetsblog's Sweet 16-style tournament of terrible downtown parking craters, 10 cities have faced off so far.
March 28, 2013
Another Slanted High-Speed Rail Story From Anderson Cooper
Not one to back away from a terrible argument, CNN’s Anderson Cooper is sticking with his series exposing the “boondoggle” of federal high-speed rail funding. In a segment aired Monday night, he and reporter Drew Griffin hammered away yet again at their argument that high-speed rail has been a waste of money. Under the tagline “Keeping Them Honest,” Cooper and Griffin hope to raise public ire about the taxpayer money “dumped” into a program sold as high-speed rail but is really just moving slow trains “a little faster.”
March 27, 2013
Parking Madness: Cleveland vs. Spokane
Another day, another parking atrocity. Eight cities have already faced off in Parking Madness, where we attempt to find the worst parking crater in an American downtown. Milwaukee, Tulsa, Dallas and Louisville emerged victorious in the first half of the first round.
March 27, 2013
Will New Oil Supplies Slow the Transition to Green Transportation?
What if peak oil doesn't take care of gas-guzzling by cutting off the supply?
March 25, 2013
Parking Madness: Los Angeles vs. Dallas
Streetsblog's own "Sweet 16" of the worst downtown parking craters in America -- Parking Madness! -- continues today with two cities that grew up in the auto age.
March 25, 2013
A Hippocratic Oath for People Who Take Care of Cities
The city as an organism -- it's a common analogy, probably in part because it's so instructive.
March 25, 2013
Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Philly
Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American downtown, continues today with two formidable contenders.
March 22, 2013