Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Will Florida’s Next Governor Sink the State’s Chances for Rail?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

We’re keeping the news coming on the governor’s races we’re following most closely. Check out our previous coverage of Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, and Tennessee. This one could be the most important yet. The most high-profile election in Florida is the three-ring circus of a Senate race, with Republican-turned-Independent Charlie Crist trailing badly […]

Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the American […]

Texas Gov Rick Perry Could Get Four More Years to Build Mega-Highways

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 27, 2010 | 6 Comments

This is the fourth installment of Streetsblog Capitol Hill’s series on key governor’s races. Earlier we brought you stories about a candidate who likes bikes but isn’t sure about transit in Tennessee, the choice between light rail and bus rapid transit in Maryland, and how bike paranoia is cutting the GOP off at the knees […]

Frontrunner for Tenn. Gov Gets Bike Award — But Look Behind the Curtain

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam is a biking mayor. He shows up almost every year to Bike to Work Day. The small-government Republican has allocated $20,000 for bike improvements. “Twenty thousand may not sound like a lot,” said Kelley Segars, Knoxville’s Principal Transportation Planner. “But it meant that we could put up our first three signed […]

State DOTs Make Deeper Bike-Ped Budget Cuts Than Expected

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 1, 2010 | 4 Comments

We reported recently that the federal government was demanding $2.2 billion back from state DOTs in rescissions — money that was already allocated to states that they were then asked to give back. Bike and pedestrian advocates were worried that states would disproportionately target active transportation projects for cuts, instead of carving into car-centric programs. They were […]

Researchers Confirm Link Between Active Commuting and Better Health

By Adam Voiland | Aug 20, 2010 | 14 Comments

It makes intuitive sense that cycling and walking to work regularly would help people stay healthy, but until now there’s only been anecdotal evidence suggesting that places where walking or cycling to work is common also have lower rates of obesity. Bike traffic in Philadelphia. Photo: Kyle Gradinger, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia That changed […]

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