Lessons on Building Bike Culture From Latin America
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Latin American cities can provide insights on how to build bike culture. Mobility experts from Mexico City and Bogotá shared how their cities are creating a bike culture.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bogotá
We Must Act Now to Prevent a Post-COVID Spike in Driving
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We need to make walking, biking, and transit safer and more appealing, or we're going to see an increase in driving, congestion, pollution and crashes once the Stay at Home order is lifted.
How To Make Car-Free Transport Fun
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If we want more people to ride buses and bikes, we've got to help make the experience not only safe and efficient, but enjoyable.
“Life Is Sacred” — How Bogotá Reduced Road Deaths and Homicides Together
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The city's traffic fatality rate declined by roughly 50 percent between 1996 and 2006. Key to that result was an initiative to address traffic deaths and homicides in tandem.
Can the U.S. Make Bus Rapid Transit Work as Well as Latin America?
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In suburban Maryland, the debate about transit has often been cast as a decision between a light rail “purple line” and bus rapid transit. Democrat Martin O’Malley and local environmentalists lobbied for light rail while Republican Bob Ehrlich’s push for bus rapid transit was largely seen as an effort to “obfuscate, alter, study and delay” […]
“My Other Car Is a Bright Green City”
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As attention turns to the next federal transportation bill, and livable streets fans scan the platforms of presidential candidates for glimpses of what to expect from Washington over the next four years, Alex Steffen, editor and CEO of the blog WorldChanging, has posted an essay-in-progress called "My Other Car is a Bright Green City." Steffen […]