Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Complete Streets

Connecticut Lawmakers Livid at the State’s Transport Stimulus Shutout

By Elana Schor | Feb 19, 2010 | No Comments

Connecticut was not alone in its failure to win any funding from the Obama administration’s competition for $1.5 billion in TIGER stimulus grants, but its Democratic members of Congress are not nursing their wounds quietly. Outlined in purple are improvements to Stamford’s Harbor Point neighborhood that would have been funded by TIGER grants. (Image: ConnDOT) […]

CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles

By Matthew Roth | Oct 9, 2009 | No Comments

The Congress for the New Urbanism will meet in Portland, Oregon, in early November for the annual Project for Transportation Reform, a summit to further define and clarify emerging urban transportation policies that embrace entire networks, rather than interdependent transportation segments, and that seek to balance modal transportation splits and reduce overall vehicular miles traveled […]

Predicting the Future is Hard

By Ryan Avent | Sep 25, 2009 | 7 Comments

About two years ago, the Urban Land Institute published Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, which argued that it will be crucial to build cities in a more compact fashion if the country hopes to avoid substantial growth in vehicle miles traveled and carbon emissions over the next few decades. At […]

Obama’s Highways Chief: Wishy-Washy on Emissions?

By Elana Schor | Jun 2, 2009 | 4 Comments

Victor Mendez, nominated by the White House to lead the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), spent more than an hour this morning with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — but the most illuminating moment in the hearing came as the clock was running down. FHWA nominee Victor Mendez testified before the Senate today. (Photo: […]

Flashback: Obama Once Led Push for ‘Complete Streets’

By Elana Schor | May 28, 2009 | 6 Comments

With Congress out of town on its Memorial Day break, the nation’s capital is a quiet place to be — but all of that will change next week, as the appearance of the House transportation bill is expected to kick off an intense battle to reshape federal policy on transit, bikes, roads and bridges. Before […]

Congressional Climate Bill Includes ‘Complete Streets’ But Not CLEAN TEA

By Elana Schor | May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments

Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has just struck a deal on his long-awaited climate change bill — and though the agreement makes a number of concessions to polluters, it also takes a step forward towards popularizing the cause of "complete streets". House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman […]

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