Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Interviews

How Mayor Mick Cornett Fought Oklahoma City’s Brain Drain and Weight Gain

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2013 | 14 Comments

Part One of this interview was posted yesterday. Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett (R) has made it his mission to make his city healthier and less obese, in part by improving its walkability. The city lost a million pounds during his weight-loss campaign — and then they took a freeway out of the middle of downtown […]

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett: We Have to Build This City For People

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

On the last day of 2007, Mick Cornett, the Republican mayor of Oklahoma City — ranked as one of the fattest cities in the country — stood in front of the elephants at the zoo and announced he was going on a diet, and taking the rest of the city with him. Oklahoma City lost a million pounds, 37 of […]

Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 28, 2012 | 12 Comments

Last week, three leading organizations advocating for biking and walking issued a communiqué [PDF] about their intention to unify. According to the plan, hashed out two weeks ago at a top-level meeting in San Diego, the League of American Bicyclists, the Alliance for Biking & Walking, and Bikes Belong will become one organization, with one board of directors. Streetsblog […]

Larry Hanley: Part-Time Labor Won’t Save American Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 5, 2011 | 28 Comments

Streetsblog sat down last week with Larry Hanley, the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union and member of the AFL-CIO executive council. Yesterday, we published the first part of our interview, focusing on movement-building around transit. Here, we had a vigorous discussion about union rules and Buy America provisions that are the subject of some […]

ATU President Larry Hanley on How to Build a Strong Coalition for Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 4, 2011 | 6 Comments

Streetsblog sat down last week with Larry Hanley, the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union and member of the AFL-CIO executive council. Hanley started his career in New York as a bus driver in Brooklyn and then Staten Island, from 1978 to 1987. He became active in the local transit union and worked his way […]

Livability and the GOP: A Conversation With HUD’s Mariia Zimmerman

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 23, 2010 | 4 Comments

Perhaps the Obama administration’s greatest contribution to building more livable, less traffic-choked communities has been the new partnership between three agencies — DOT, EPA, and HUD — which are helping towns and cities grow more sustainably, using strategies from brownfield redevelopment to the provision of affordable housing along transit corridors. The agencies have collaborated to […]

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