Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Inhofe Supports Clean Extension, Won’t Vote Against Bike/Ped (This Time)

By Alice Ollstein and Tanya Snyder | Sep 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously agreed this morning to send a four-month extension of the transportation bill to the full Senate. Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) emphasized that it wasn’t easy to get consensus on the extension, especially with many members wanting to move forward with the full two-year bill. And yesterday, as frazzled […]

The Senate’s “Dr. No” Says He’ll Block An Extension Unless Bike/Ped Is Cut

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2011 | 22 Comments

Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is known around the Senate as “Dr. No” for his propensity to hold up key legislation, single-handedly, because it contains something not to his liking (or sometimes because he’s upset about something else entirely.) On Veterans Day in 2009, he shocked even his GOP colleagues by blocking veterans’ benefits because he […]

GOP Leader’s Infra “Compromise” Is Just Another Ploy to Kill Bike/Ped

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2011 | 5 Comments

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has put forth an idea that major news outlets are calling an “olive branch” to President Obama on infrastructure funding. Is he offering to increase spending levels over the starvation program being proposed by Republicans on the House Transportation Committee? No. Is he proposing to include performance measures, making sure […]

Tennessee Mom Threatened With Arrest For Letting Daughter Bike to School

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 1, 2011 | 44 Comments

It’s back-to-school time, and along with it, the requisite crackdown over kids getting to school by bike. A few years ago, we highlighted cases from Mississippi to British Columbia where authorities stopped kids from walking alone. And now, we have the case of Teresa Tryon of Tennessee, threatened with criminal charges for letting her child […]

SRTS Conference 2011: NYC Student Activist Inspires National Audience

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 19, 2011 | 12 Comments

Only two speakers at this week’s Safe Routes to School National Conference in Minneapolis earned a standing ovation. For former Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar the crowd stood out of honor and gratitude. For Kimberly White, the audience shot out of their seats with sheer awe and inspiration. A resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, and a sophomore […]

The Environmental Impact of Your Two-Wheeled Commute

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 12, 2011 | 16 Comments

Slate’s Brian Palmer wrote in an article this week that he’s thinking of switching his commute “from four wheels to two” but he’s concerned about the environmental impact of bicycling: specifically, “about all the energy it takes to manufacture and ship a new bicycle.” He wants to know how many miles he would “bike the […]

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