Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Happy Labor Day Weekend

By Elana Schor | Sep 4, 2009 | No Comments

(Photo: AP via Politico) President Obama faces some difficult transportation and environmental choices this month: Should he insist on an 18-month delay for a new infrastructure bill or strike a compromise with House transport committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN)? Should he push the Senate forward on a climate bill before year’s end or tell the […]

GOPer Offers Alternative Climate Plan: More Nuke, Less ‘Energy Sprawl’

By Elana Schor | Jul 13, 2009 | No Comments

Lamar Alexander (TN), the GOP’s third-ranked leader in the Senate, today unveiled an energy plan that is intended to serve as a counterpoint to the climate change bill being assembled by senior Democrats. His proposal focused largely on one promise: 100 new nuclear plants in the next 20 years. Wind farms require a lot of […]

Taking GOPer Bachmann a Bit Too Seriously

By Elana Schor | Jul 10, 2009 | 4 Comments

Back when the Senate kicked off its health care debate, Republicans tested out a new line of attack against health committee chairman Edward Kennedy’s (D-MA) draft bill: Its investment in encouraging walking and biking amounts to inexcusable government waste. Never mind that walking and biking have scientifically proven public health benefits. Never mind that the […]

WHO Report Highlights Global Health Risk of Traffic

By Elana Schor | Jun 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

Pro football player Donte’ Stallworth was sentenced to jail today after killing a pedestrian in an alcohol-related crash. (Photo: AP) The disparity between the 13 percent of road fatalities suffered by non-drivers and the amount that the federal government spends on their safety — less than 1 percent — may come as a surprise to […]

EPA Asks For Bike to Work Feedback, Inhabitat Gives Away a Bike

By Matthew Roth | Jun 15, 2009 | No Comments

We get a lot of Greenversations press releases over the transom and most go right to the trash, in no small part because "Greenversations" is one of the more odious portmanteaus a government agency or corporation has yet proffered. Not quite as annoying as the idea that Ray LaHood’s multi-modal transportation blog is called the […]

Cycling in National Cemetery: Yea or Nay?

By Elana Schor | Jun 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

Local D.C. issues aren’t the stock in trade of Streetsblog Capitol Hill, but the Washington Post lately has been refereeing a debate that resonates on the national level: Is Arlington National Cemetery inhospitable to cyclists? A Marine pedals through D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery. (Photo: M.V. Jantzen via Flickr) The Post ran a letter to the editor […]

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