Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Florida

Tampa Bike Safety Summit Proves (Finally) to Be No April Fools’ Joke

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

Bike advocates got yet another reason to love Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood last month when he announced that U.S. DOT would hold two bicycle safety summits this year. The summits would examine why bicycle fatality rates are rising when automobile fatalities are falling. Less than a month after he made this announcement at the National […]

Sprawl Madness: Two Houses Share Backyard, Separated by 7 Miles of Roads

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 28, 2013 | 70 Comments

Just how absurd have American development patterns become over the past few decades? Behold: Two houses with adjoining backyards in suburban Orlando. If you want to travel the streets from point A on Anna Catherine Drive to point B on Summer Rain Drive, which are only 50 feet apart, you’ll have to go a minimum of […]

Pedestrian Safety, as Brought to You By Florida DOT and NASCAR

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 25, 2013 | No Comments

You wouldn’t necessarily expect NASCAR, the very embodiment of the macho fast-car fetish in America, to go to bat for pedestrians. But in preparation for yesterday’s “Super Bowl of stock car racing,” the Daytona 500, NASCAR teamed up with the Florida Department of Transportation to help promote pedestrian safety around the event. But how deep is […]

Poll: The Hunt for the Worst Intersection in America Continues

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 31, 2013 | 39 Comments

Earlier this week we looked at the intersection of Route 355 and Shady Grove Road near Rockville, Maryland, flagged by Ben Ross at Greater Greater Washington for being especially hostile to pedestrians, even though it’s the site of a bus stop. We asked if it might be the worst intersection in the country and put out a call for […]

NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2012 | 19 Comments

The overwhelming sentiment that greeted our story on the gas consumption maps the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club put out last week went something like this: These are almost useful. Just about everyone agreed that looking at total fuel consumption per county wasn’t very informative without weighing that number against population. There […]

Now No Republican Will Ever Ride a Bus Again

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

You’ve got to hand it to the Republicans. Even the party of transit haters had to admit that the only logical way to move delegates around in the congested streets around the GOP convention was by bus. And they would have been right, except they had a little snafu that will undoubtedly convince everyone involved that transit […]

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