Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

How the $8.7 Billion Transportation Contracting Gap is Hitting Your State

By Elana Schor | Oct 20, 2009 | No Comments

Earlier this month, Streetsblog Capitol Hill reported on the fallout from Congress’ failure to prevent an $8.7 billion "rescission" — fancy legislative talk for the cancellation of funds — from taking effect on September 30. Though media coverage focused largely on the rescission’s impact on road projects, the lost money has hit clean transportation hard. […]

Copenhagen Cycle Ambassador Says Bikes Are Hot

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 30, 2009 | No Comments

If you’ve been following bicycle blogs for any amount of time at all, you’ve probably stumbled upon Mikael Colville-Andersen, who runs the blogs Copenhagenize and Copenhagen Cycle Chic. (We often feature his posts on the Streetsblog Network.) On Tuesday afternoon, he brought his inimitable style of bike advocacy (pretty spiffy, though low-key) to Columbia University […]

Rezoning Tysons Corner: It’s Hard To Teach Old Dogs New Tricks

By Ryan Avent | Sep 18, 2009 | No Comments

Streetsblog has previously covered the effort to transform Tysons Corner, a bustling but car-oriented and traffic-plagued jobs center in Fairfax County, Virginia, into a walkable, transit-oriented corridor based around four new Metro stations — similar to the immensely successful redevelopment of the Wilson Boulevard corridor in Arlington, just a few miles to Tysons’ northeast. The project […]

Klobuchar & Webb: Dems’ Unlikely Opponents of Bike-Ped Investment

By Elana Schor | Sep 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) attempt to curb federal investment in bicycle and pedestrian paths, as well as other "transportation enhancements," was defeated on the Senate floor today — but it managed to pick up two unlikely Democratic supporters in the process. A college-age Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), with her father at right. (Photo: Klobuchar for […]

More on McCain’s Anti-Transit and Coburn’s Anti-Bike Amendments

By Elana Schor | Sep 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

As Streetsblog Capitol Hill reported yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offered amendments striking money for more than 20 transit projects from the bill that funds the U.S. DOT next year. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (Photo: Reuters via MediaBistro) The individual amendments have yet to come to a vote, but earlier today the Senate defeated a […]

How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute?

By Elana Schor | Sep 9, 2009 | 5 Comments

(Data: IBM’s CPI) As Washington conventional wisdom has it, raising gas taxes or creating a vehicle miles traveled tax to pay for transportation is impossible during the current recession. After all, who would want to squeeze cash-strapped commuters during tough economic times? As it turns out, the public is very willing to pay for the […]

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