Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Commuting

Mounting Transportation and Housing Costs Devour Household Budgets

By Ben Goldman | Feb 29, 2012 | 1 Comment

On Monday we wrote that Americans can’t afford a transportation bill that locks households into the expenses of car dependence. Yesterday the Center for Neighborhood Technology hammered the point home, releasing new data showing how communities are getting less and less affordable nationwide. Only 28 percent of American communities meet CNT’s definition of “affordable,” which accounts for […]

“Anti-Livability” Bills Threaten to Clip Arlington’s Wings

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2011 | 3 Comments

A pair of bills making their way through Virginia’s House of Delegates threaten to slam the brakes on smart growth and livability efforts in Arlington and throughout Northern Virginia. House Bills 1998 and 1999, put forward by Delegate Jim LeMunyon (R-Fairfax), have been dubbed the “Anti-Livability” bills by local transportation reformers. HB 1998 seeks to […]

If You Come, They Will Build It: Notes on Livability From Rail~volution

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 21, 2010 | No Comments

Those looking for hope in this era of transit service cuts took heart from the words of William Millar, President of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), at Rail~volution yesterday. In his keynote speech, Millar reasons to hope for a better future — despite the fact that 84 percent of APTA members were cutting service, raising fares, […]

Report: Want to Ease Commuter Pain? Highways and Sprawl Won’t Help

By Noah Kazis | Sep 29, 2010 | No Comments

Imagine two drivers leaving downtown to head home. Each of them sits in traffic for the first ten miles of the commute but at that point, their paths diverge. The first one has reached home. The second has another twenty miles to drive, though luckily for her, the roads are clear and congestion doesn’t slow […]

Car-Dependent States Hit Hardest by Obesity Epidemic

By Noah Kazis | Jul 8, 2010 | 8 Comments

States where more people drive to work face an even worse obesity crisis. Graphic: Noah Kazis and Carly Clark Transportation is a public health issue. As profiled in the recently released report from the Trust for America’s Health, "F as in Fat," obesity rates continue to rise across the nation, increasing the risk of serious […]

New Report Puts a Price on Suburbia and Rental Housing in One U.S. City

By Elana Schor | Apr 12, 2010 | 5 Comments

How much various Boston area neighborhoods are spending on total household transport and housing bills. (Graphic: Center for Neighborhood Technology) Boston mayor Thomas Menino joined Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) today for the release of a new Urban Land Institute (ULI) report that maps the combined housing and transportation burden of living in the metro area’s […]

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