The proof is in the vote. (Image: UrbanSTL) Reports of transit-related victories are coming from two cities with bloggers in the Streetsblog Network this morning. First, from St. Louis, the news that Proposition A — a half-cent sales tax to fund St. Louis County’s Metro operations — passed, with 63 percent of voters approving. The […]

Bogotá’s Transmilenio BRT. Could Chicago get something like this? (Photo: the mikebot via Flickr) Today on the Streetsblog Network, we hear about new plans for Bus Rapid Transit from the blog of the Metropolitan Planning Council (the MPC is "an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization…[that] serves communities and residents by developing, promoting and implementing solutions for […]

There’s more to Cleveland than you might think. (Photo: BIG Slow via Flickr) One of our favorite blogs in the Streetsblog Network is Rustwire.com, a great source of news and opinion from the Rust Belt of the Midwest. Today they’re featuring a guest editorial that asks some tough questions about smaller cities in the region […]

What is your commute taking out of you? (Photo: Stewart via Flickr) Earlier this week, David Brooks wrote a column in the New York Times about the real roots of personal happiness that got a lot of attention. Among other things, it contained the news flash that commuting makes us miserable. That is certainly true […]

Florida DOT’s windshield perspective isn’t good enough anymore. (Photo: wallyg via Flickr) For decades, the automobile has been the central organizing principle for planning in South Florida, a primacy that hasn’t often been questioned. But there are signs that things are changing.  Today on the Streetsblog Network, Transit Miami reports that advocates of traffic calming […]

Will Fort Worth move forward on the streetcar? (Photo illustration: Fort Worthology) We heard yesterday from Streetsblog Network member Kevin Buchanan of Fort Worthology about a threat to the planned streetcar project in Fort Worth, Texas. It seems like the City Council is dragging its feet in going forward with the design process, and might […]

Better bicycle infrastructure is no threat to trucks. (Photo: Wayan Vota via Flickr) Statements made by U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood in recent weeks — including one regarding "the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized" — have gotten a lot of favorable coverage from members of the Streetsblog Network. But they’ve […]

This is what independence really looks like. (Photo: kamshots via Flickr) Probably all of us have watched as an aging relative fights to keep on driving despite deteriorating vision or other impairments. I know of one case in which a woman essentially stole her mother’s car so that the older lady, who suffered from dementia, […]

Isn’t this a pleasant way to travel? (Photo: D Sharon Pruitt via Flickr) In my Brooklyn neighborhood, one of the most walkable and transit-rich in the country, the streets near schools fill up every morning and afternoon with parents dropping off and picking up their kids in cars. They double-park, they idle, they block bike […]