Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Livable Streets

Hans Monderman, Engineer of Livable Streets, 1947-2008

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
New Mobility Agenda‘s Eric Britton sends along sad news that Hans Monderman, the Dutch traffic engineer renowned for his innovative "shared space" plans emphasizing human interaction and negotiation over blind obedience to mechanical traffic control devices, died yesterday. He was a rare and radical traffic engineer who believed that the art and science of his […]

Is Barack Obama the Livable Streets Candidate?

By Jason Varone | | 19 Comments
Barack Obama is a long-time cyclist (Photo: Chicago Tribune) The current crop of Presidential candidates are busy debating the energy crisis, national security, climate change, health care, all of which potentially pose a serious threat to America’s future. We can begin to address all of these issues simultaneously by transforming our cities into more sustainable […]

Happy Thanksgiving

By Brad Aaron | | 10 Comments
  We do a lot of criticism here on Streetsblog, so in the spirit of the season we thought we’d reflect on what we in the livable streets universe have to be thankful for. We’ll get the most obvious one out of the way: a Department of Transportation that looks at the city’s streets and […]

Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy

By Aaron Naparstek | | 14 Comments
  An op/ed by Eduardo Porter in today’s New York Times makes a passing suggestion that by reducing the number of people who do solo car commutes, congestion pricing would make New Yorkers happier. I can say this for sure: If it also reduces the number of honking, revving, careening and exhaust-spewing sociopaths clogging New […]

Riding While Black or Just Riding?

By Sarah Goodyear | | 5 Comments
From Robert Jones’s blog This Is the Diaspora comes a disturbing tale (well worth reading in full) of how a beautiful bike ride on a sparkling fall day turned into a humiliating encounter with the police — all because Jones detoured onto the sidewalk of Malcolm X Boulevard in Brooklyn for a few seconds to […]
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