Charlotte Provides the Most Compelling Evidence for E-Scooters Yet
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People like them, much more so than dockless bikes even, new data from Charlotte shows.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Charlotte
How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous
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Journalists should be more skeptical of police accounts of pedestrian deaths.
Charlotte Transit Has Problems That Expensive Fantasy Maps Won’t Fix
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Kimley-Horn, a multinational consulting firm looking to plan the next phases of the Charlotte area's rail expansion, also has ideas for new rail lines above and beyond the region's long-term blueprint -- projects that would be designed and built, naturally, by multinational consulting firms like Kimley-Horn. Trouble is, the firm's fantasy exercise does nothing to address the real challenges facing Charlotte's transit network.
It’s “Transit Christmas” for These Bus and Train Projects in Obama’s Budget
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In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year 2016. Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and Talking Headways fame called it “Transit Christmas.” Though the […]
The 10 Best and Worst Cities to Catch a Bus to Work
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It’s been called “the geography of opportunity.” And David Levinson is trying to make a science of it. In a new analysis, Levinson, a University of Minnesota transportation engineering professor, and his colleague Andrew Owen have ranked the 50 largest U.S. metro areas based on job accessibility by transit [PDF]. Levinson and Owen used transit schedules and walking […]
Sec. Foxx: Bicycle Infrastructure Can Be a “Ladder of Opportunity”
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This morning, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s blog post is all about bicycling. He opens by touting the complete streets policy he helped implement in Charlotte (it passed before he was mayor) and the city’s bike-share system — the largest in the Southeast. His post follows on his speech yesterday to the National Bike Summit, which […]