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Protected Lanes Are a Great Start — Next Goal Is Low-Stress Bike Networks

By Michael Andersen | Sep 11, 2014 | 19 Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For decades, protected bike lanes were a “missing tool” in American street design. Now that this is changing, bikeway design leaders are identifying a new frontier: low-stress grids. “Separated bike lanes are […]

Foxx: New U.S. DOT Bike/Ped Initiative “Critical to Future of the Country”

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 10, 2014 | 8 Comments

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx just announced to the Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Pro-Place conference in Pittsburgh that the department is “putting together the most comprehensive, forward-leaning initiative U.S. DOT has ever put forward on bike/ped issues.” He said the initiative “is critical to the future of the country.” The top priority, he said, will be closing gaps […]

FHWA Gleefully Declares That Driving Is Up, Calls for More Highway Spending

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 2, 2014 | 29 Comments

Well, so much for the predictions that changing preferences and new technologies will lead to a car-free utopia. The Federal Highway Administration announced last week that after nine years of steady decline, vehicle-miles-traveled in the U.S. was 1.4 percent higher this June than last June. Apparently, red-blooded Americans everywhere are finally getting back to their […]

Why Transit Agencies Expand Even When They Struggle to Provide Service

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 18, 2014 | 4 Comments

New Orleans transit is in bad shape, as we reported recently. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority has never recovered from Hurricane Katrina and service is at about 36 percent of pre-storm levels despite the region’s population rebound. New Orleans’ frequent service lines have been slashed dramatically. Even newly built streetcar lines are running infrequently. […]

Congress Hits the Snooze Button on Transpo Funding Until May

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 1, 2014 | 8 Comments

Someone had to cave and last night, it was the Senate. The upper chamber had fought as long as it could to adjust the House transportation bill so it wouldn’t expire when the GOP controls both chambers of Congress. But senators were never willing to actually let the Highway Trust Fund go broke. U.S. DOT would […]

Time’s Up: 6 Things to Know About Today’s Transpo Showdown (UPDATED)

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 31, 2014 | No Comments

UPDATE 2:40 p.m.: The House has rejected the Senate amendment, as expected. Today is the House of Representatives’ last day in session before departing for an August recess full of photo ops and electioneering in their districts. The Senate will stick around DC for one more day before going home. Before that happens, the two […]

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