Recent Streetsblog USA posts about St. Louis

Where’s the National Business Voice for Transit?

By Tanya Snyder | May 30, 2013 | 1 Comment

At the local level, business has been a key force in cementing transit victories. But at a national level, the business voice has been largely absent from heated, high-stakes debates about transit. With a new report called “Bosses For Buses,” Good Jobs First investigates the disparity between local- and national-level organizing efforts by employers. In […]

The Votes Are In: Omaha Abomination Voted Worst Intersection in the U.S.

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 5, 2013 | 49 Comments

Well, it was a tough competition for America’s Worst Intersection, with a lot of worthy contenders — the kind of intersections that would make an Olympic sprinter nervous. But the people have spoken — 468 of them — and in the end it wasn’t even close. Our winner is Omaha, Nebraska’s intersection of 132nd Street, […]

Pedestrian Deaths on Railroad Tracks: The Failure of Design

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 13, 2012 | 22 Comments

In 2006, 14-year old Kristen Bowen was killed on the train tracks near her house in the Chicago suburb of Villa Park. She was using a well-worn shortcut across the tracks that cut her residential neighborhood off from the school and the park they used. Four years after Kristen’s death, her twin sister committed suicide by […]

$10,000 Extra? The Transportation Tab for Sprawling ‘Hoods in 20 Metros

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

$10,860 in New York City. $5,694 in St. Louis. $4,199 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That’s what it will cost you, on average, in additional transportation costs to live in a sprawling, car-dependent neighborhood over one that is well-connected and transit-rich. That’s according to a new analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, produced for Better Cities […]

Streetsies 2011: The Local Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, we started our year-end 2011 round-up. We lamented transit cuts in places where transit is more important than ever, cheered the successful ballot initiatives that will fund transportation lifelines, took a moment to explore the nuances of some difficult issues, and called out Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for some hare-brained ideas about the […]

Nearly Half of TIGER Award Money Goes to Roads, 29 Percent For Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 15, 2011 | 4 Comments

If you live in Stamford, Connecticut and your walk to the train station gets safer next year, you can thank USDOT’s TIGER grant program. Or when your hometown of American Falls, Idaho suddenly gets complete streets downtown, accommodating people on foot, on bikes, on buses, in cars, and in wheelchairs, encouraging local shopping. Or when […]

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