Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s New Governor Is Awesome

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 6, 2014 | No Comments

Here’s another race for governor with big implications for transportation policy: In Pennsylvania, businessman Tom Wolf handily beat incumbent Tom Corbett. Though Pennsylvania made some important progress on transportation issues during Corbett’s tenure, Wolf wants to usher in much more meaningful reforms. In its election round-up, Philly-based This Old City points to a post the […]

Man Who Painted Speed Warning on Street Vows to Fight Charges

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 28, 2014 | No Comments

A Pennsylvania man faces charges of criminal mischief and disorderly conduct for painting a warning to speeding drivers on his street. John Cherok appealed to the city about drivers going dangerously fast in front of his bookstore in McDonald, Pennsylvania. The city, for its part, conducted a study and told him speeding wasn’t a problem. The […]

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 […]

Suburbanization of Poverty Isolates a Growing Number of Americans

By Tanya Snyder | May 21, 2013 | 12 Comments

Poverty is no longer a predominantly urban problem — and the suburbs are no longer the refuge of the upper classes. There are now almost 3 million more poor people living in suburbs than in cities, according to a new book, “Confronting Suburban Poverty in America,” by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube of the Brookings […]

Video: In Car-Bike Hit-and-Run, “Heroic” Bus Driver Saves the Day

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 9, 2012 | 18 Comments

A bus driver from Bethlehem is being lauded as folk hero in the cycling community after his quick work to prevent a would-be hit-and-run driver from fleeing the scene. LANTA bus driver Richard Gubish, Jr. was watching in his rear view mirror when a 17-year-old driver rear-ended a local cyclist. When the driver attempted to flee […]