Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

How Would Blumenauer’s New Commuter Benefit Proposal Work?

By Tanya Snyder | May 11, 2011 | 21 Comments

If you drive to work, you can get a $230 monthly parking benefit, subsidized by the federal government and paid through your employer. If you take transit, right now you can get up to $230 per month, but the cap may revert to $120 when the current transit benefit law expires this fall. And if you […]

Mica Wants to Abandon Federal Commitment to Bike-Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | May 6, 2011 | 4 Comments

A few final notes before we all head home for the weekend… Jonathan Maus at BikePortland just brought our attention to a recent comment we wish House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) hadn’t made. As the Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday, Rep. Mica is making noises about “siphoning away” money for bike paths. The Sentinel says […]

Mayors Rebel Against State-Controlled Highway Expansion, Fight For Transit

By Tanya Snyder | May 3, 2011 | 6 Comments

If your roads are congested, your bus lines are getting cut, and money is flowing to brand-new roads to nowhere, don’t blame your mayor. Chances are, he or she is as mad about it as you are. Mayors are speaking out against ineffective transportation funding mechanisms that direct scarce resources to sprawling highways and away […]

NACTO Releases Reader-Friendly Design Guide for Bike-Friendly Streets

By Angie Schmitt | May 2, 2011 | 4 Comments

Bike planners, professional and amateur: Come and get it. The National Association of City Transportation Officials has released its Urban Bikeways Design Guide in digital format. Now transportation planners can take advantage of a printable version in the traditional design guide format. NACTO officials hope transportation professionals around the country make a home for it […]

Bike Month Begins, Minneapolis Brings Home Cycling Gold

By Tanya Snyder | May 2, 2011 | 4 Comments

Despite having the coldest winter weather of any major U.S. city, Minneapolis has the second highest rate of bike commuting in the country, after Portland. Ridership throughout the city is up 21 percent since 2007 and in some neighborhoods, it’s up as much as 132 percent. Clearly, chilly Minneapolis has become a hot place to […]

How to Get People to Adopt More Climate-Friendly Behaviors

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 29, 2011 | 6 Comments

Dear sustainability advocate: I know you are tired. You spend your life looking climate apocalypse in the eye and knowing that human behavior needs to change to avert catastrophe. But are humans changing their behavior? Not fast enough. And why not? You’ve started carpooling and weatherized your house and it wasn’t so hard. So why […]

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