Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Was Eric Cantor Forced to Ride This Bike?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 6, 2012 | 10 Comments

Eric Cantor, I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that 60 Minutes forced you to pose for this shot. Because, Mr. Majority Leader, it seems a little hypocritical that a person who has worked so hard to keep others from biking would enjoy it himself. To figure out whether […]

Streetsies 2011: The Final Installment

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 30, 2011 | No Comments

Tomorrow is the last day of 2011, folks. I wish you a Happier New Year than this one was. We’ve spent the last couple days looking back at some of the bests and worsts of 2011. A brief recap: The hit to transit budgets was the low point of the year, with the high point […]

Streetsies 2011: Bums and Bummers

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

On our walk down the memory lane of 2011 so far, we’ve talked about some downers, some inspirations, some triumphs, and some struggles. Check out our first two installments of year-end Streetsie award nostalgia. Here’s some more. Best Obama Plan That Died a Slow and Horrible Death This Year: How to choose, when there were […]

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 […]

2010 Traffic Fatalities Could Fill 70 Jumbo Jets. And This Is Good News?

By Ben Goldman | Dec 9, 2011 | 3 Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced yesterday that 32,885 people lost their lives on our nation’s roads in 2010. While a staggering toll, this represents the lowest total number of traffic fatalities since 1949. “We’re making historic progress when it comes to improving safety on our nation’s roadways,” said LaHood in a statement, also pointing out […]

Is Transpo Funding Fundamentally a PR Problem? Five Ex-DOT Chiefs Discuss

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

How can you convince Americans that transportation is important enough to invest in? That’s the question that brought together five former U.S. Transportation Secretaries this week at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. James Burnley was deputy secretary and then secretary under President Reagan. He took the position that “75 percent” of the public “gives […]

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