Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Florida

Complete Freeways? Florida Tries Bike Lanes on Highway Bridges

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 25, 2014 | 3 Comments

A few years ago, a person living in a working-class neighborhood of Miami and commuting to the tourism district in Miami Beach could pretty much forget about walking or biking there. Her choices were either to pay for the bus or buy a car, but healthy, active transportation was impossible — or at least, illegal. […]

Tampa, Florida: A Case Study in Saddling the Poor With Traffic Violence

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 22, 2014 | 21 Comments

You’d be hard-pressed to fund a more deadly place for pedestrians in all of the U.S. than Tampa’s Hillsborough Avenue. On an eight block stretch of this road, 21 bicyclists and pedestrians were hit by drivers between 2008 and 2012. Two of those people, 15-year-old Middleton High School students Shenika Davis and Norma Velasquez-Cabrera, were killed […]

The Most Dangerous Places to Walk in America

By Angie Schmitt | May 20, 2014 | 2 Comments

Walking should be the healthiest, most natural activity in the world. It is, after all, one of the first things humans learn to do. But in far too many places, walking can be fatal, thanks to roads designed for speeding cars. In 2012, 4,743 pedestrians lost their lives in traffic collisions in the U.S., and […]

A Crosswalk Too Far: The Hunt for America’s Least Crossable Street

By Angie Schmitt | May 14, 2014 | 39 Comments

Last February, Streetsblog readers determined the worst intersection in America. Then you pinpointed a suburban area with streets so windy and disconnected, it would take a seven mile trip to travel between two houses that shared a back yard. And for two years running you’ve helped shame the nation’s most parking-scarred downtowns. But there’s a […]

It’s Rochester vs. Jacksonville in the Parking Madness Championship!

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 8, 2014 | 19 Comments

Forget Huskies vs. Wildcats — today is all about parking crater vs. parking crater. Through 14 matches pitting some of the most hideous parking expanses in the world against each other, two cities are still standing: Rochester and Jacksonville. These are the worst of the worst downtown asphalt scars. But only one city can claim […]

Parking Madness Final Four: Chicago vs. Jacksonville

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2014 | 6 Comments

We started with 16 parking craters and now we’re down to the Final Four of Parking Madness. After two bruising rounds of competition, four hideous parking expanses in Kansas City, Rochester, Chicago, and Jacksonville are still in it to win it. Each one is an ugly and awe-inspiring waste of potential in its own way. Today’s […]

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