Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

What’s Lost When Transportation Enhancements Becomes “CMAQ-AA”?

By Ben Goldman | Nov 29, 2011 | 5 Comments

This month’s bipartisan deal on the MAP-21 transportation bill in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hinged on a compromise to make major changes to the popular and successful Transportation Enhancements (TE) program, which primarily funds projects for biking and walking. The final deal eliminates dedicated funding for TE, instead making a smaller amount […]

Is Congress Trying to Put the Kibosh on TIGER Funding For Bike/Ped?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 29, 2011 | No Comments

Did TIGER spend too much money on bicycle and pedestrian programs? That’s the question Larry Ehl at Transportation Issues Daily is asking. After all, Congress appears to be encouraging USDOT to spend TIGER grant money on something — anything — other than bike/ped. It’s right there in the 2012 transportation appropriation bill, which President Obama signed […]

Mapping the Consequences of Our Automobile Addiction

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 23, 2011 | 27 Comments

Leave it to the Brits to create an incredible tool for examining America’s own crisis of traffic fatalities. Behold this somber map, made by ITO World, a UK-based transportation information firm. Each dot on the map is a traffic-related death. The entire eastern United States is blanketed with them. The purple dots represent vehicle occupants […]

Who Knew? Memphis on Track to Add 55 Miles of Bike Lanes in Just Two Years

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 11, 2011 | 5 Comments

It seems nowadays you aren’t truly a bike-friendly city until you’ve had your first civic dust-up over bike lanes. And by that standard, Memphis, Tennessee has arrived. Last month, this mid-sized Southern city fought back challenges by business owners to install a bike lane on one of its main major commercial thoroughfares, Madison Avenue. That […]

What’s Wrong With Telling Cyclists to Ride on the Bike Path?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 11, 2011 | 11 Comments

With all due respect to my vehicular-cyclist friends, I’m a big fan of separate facilities for bikes. They keep bicyclists safer and encourage more people to ride, and I know I make a lot fewer risky moves when I’m riding in a lane built for my two wheels and not a two-ton, 200-horsepower steel box. […]

Nine Reasons For Bike/Ped Advocates to Take Heart: The Senate Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 10, 2011 | 5 Comments

Now that the dust has settled, we have a few more notes on the Senate transportation bill that passed the EPW committee yesterday. Bike and pedestrian advocates are understandably shaken at seeing some major changes to the primary programs that fund their work. But here are some reasons to take heart: Getting Transportation Enhancements out […]

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