Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

Talking Headways Podcast: Uber and the Case of the Hidden Gas Tax

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 11, 2014 | No Comments

Uber is celebrating. DC passed an Uber-legalization law that Uber thinks cities the world over should follow. The problem is, most cities have much more tightly regulated taxi industries than DC, with a far higher cost of entry. In those cases, letting Uber get away with providing taxi services while complying with none of the […]

Sustainable Transportation Could Save the World (and Save $100 Trillion)

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 23, 2014 | 5 Comments

Dramatically expanding transit and active transportation over the next few decades could reduce carbon emissions from urban transport 40 percent more than following a car-centric trajectory. And it could also save the world economy $100 trillion. That’s according to a new report presented recently to the United Nations by researchers at UC Davis and the Institute […]

Transit Union and Sierra Club Join Forces for Earth Day and Beyond

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 15, 2014 | 18 Comments

Earth Day is a week from tomorrow. How many people will drive to their local environmental festival without even a second thought to how they got there? The Amalgamated Transit Union and the Sierra Club will announce tomorrow that they are joining forces to highlight the connection between transportation and climate change. Transit is important, […]

DC Region’s New Long-Range Plan Fails to Meet Its Own Climate Goals

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

If sea levels rise just one foot in the Washington, DC, area, nearly 1,700 homes could be lost. Is the region’s transportation planning agency doing enough to stop that from happening? Several environmental and smart-growth organizations in the region are saying no. Seventeen groups have signed on to a letter, being delivered today, urging the […]

What Will Our Future Be Like If We Don’t Change How We Get Around?

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2013 | 24 Comments

How will Americans get around in the year 2030? A recent report from the RAND Corporation lays out two “plausible futures” developed though a “scenario analysis” and vetted by outside experts. While RAND takes a decidedly agnostic stance toward the implications of each scenario, the choice that emerges is still pretty stark. In the first […]

“Bike-Washing” the Keystone Pipeline [Updated]

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 29, 2013 | 20 Comments

Houston-based architecture firm SWA Group has heads spinning today: Is their proposal to build a bikeway next to the Keystone Pipeline pure satire or a serious attempt to “bike-wash” the most reviled fossil fuel distribution project of our day? SWA developed this idyllic rendering and sent it to the State Department and TransCanada, calling for […]

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