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Parking Madness 2015 Elite Eight: Detroit vs. Camden

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 25, 2015 | 21 Comments

Today it’s on to round two in Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American town. Our first Elite Eight matchup features two cities struggling to rebuild in the wake of some serious urban disinvestment, and these parking craters certainly aren’t helping. It’s Camden vs. Detroit. Detroit The above image, submitted by reader Luke Klipp, […]

New Jersey’s Response to Suicide Attempt: Close Bridge to Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 20, 2014 | No Comments

Without access to the Route 35 Victory Bridge, the path between Perth Amboy and Sayreville gets a whole lot longer. Via WalkBikeJersey/Google Maps Today’s featured post from the Streetsblog Network is a case study in overreaction and unintended consequences. John Boyle at WalkBikeJersey reports that after a suicide attempt on the Route 35 Victory Bridge, […]

Parking Madness: Newark vs. Dallas

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 25, 2014 | 21 Comments

We’re halfway through the first round of the 2014 Parking Madness tournament, with Kansas City, Detroit, Chicago, and Jacksonville having advanced to the next round. Today’s matchup pairs two very different cities with the same problem: parking craters. A reader submitted the following definition yesterday: park-ing cra-ter (noun) is “ugly, and an inefficient use of space in a […]

Driving Declines Spell Big Trouble for Turnpikes

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 12, 2014 | 27 Comments

What the New Jersey Turnpike Authority did in 2005 was no different than what almost every other state and regional transportation agency was doing at the time. It predicted that traffic volumes would rise at a healthy clip every year for about 30 years into the future. Then it estimated its revenues based on those […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Bikes of Ill Repute

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 28, 2014 | 1 Comment

Jeff Wood and I are back with episode 8 of the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about Los Angeles Metro’s decision not to extend light rail all the way to LAX (and what they’re doing instead), plus some analysis of what rail can really do in a city as spread-out as LA. Then we head […]

With Senate on Fire, Can Cory Booker Save Its Transportation Committees?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2013 | 2 Comments

Outside of New Jersey, Cory Booker is probably best known for running into a burning building to save a woman’s life. Inside New Jersey, he’s better known for trying — with mixed results — to turn around the state’s biggest and perhaps most troubled city, Newark. Nowhere has he made a particular name for himself […]

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