Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Parks

Park(ing) Day Scenes From Around the United States

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2013 | 16 Comments

It was only eight years ago that the international movement known as Park(ing) Day got started (in San Francisco or New York, depending on whom you ask). In a short time, this fun way to demonstrate the squandered potential of ordinary parking spaces has become a global phenomenon. Today, in cities across the United States […]

Interior Secretary Nominee Is a Friend to Cyclists — and Oil Drillers?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 7, 2013 | No Comments

President Obama’s choice for Interior Secretary could be an unexpected breath of fresh air for cyclists. Sally Jewell, nominated to the position yesterday, is the CEO of adventure outfitter REI, a business-minded conservationist — and a veteran of the fossil fuel industry. Under Jewell, REI has been one of the nation’s leading corporate promoters of […]

Park(ing) Day Around the U.S.

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 21, 2012 | 3 Comments

It’s International Park(ing) Day, when people all over the world transform their cities’ most dead boring places — parking spaces — into temporary, creative community gathering places. We hope you got a chance to play, relax or socialize in a temporary park in your city today. But even if you didn’t, you can enjoy them […]

What’s Wrong With Telling Cyclists to Ride on the Bike Path?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 11, 2011 | 11 Comments

With all due respect to my vehicular-cyclist friends, I’m a big fan of separate facilities for bikes. They keep bicyclists safer and encourage more people to ride, and I know I make a lot fewer risky moves when I’m riding in a lane built for my two wheels and not a two-ton, 200-horsepower steel box. […]

Fighting Freeways: War Stories From Portland

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 19, 2010 | 4 Comments

Rail~volution is underway in Portland, Oregon, bringing together more than 1,000 city planners, engineers, transit advocates, bike policy experts, and elected officials to strategize about making cities and towns better for transit, walking, and biking. Monday started with 15 different workshops that took place around the city, including one highlighting Portland’s “Lost Freeways” – the […]

Senate Health Bill Holds Onto Grants For Healthier Transportation

By Elana Schor | Nov 20, 2009 | No Comments

Back in June, when the Senate was in the early stages of its marathon health care reform debate, several Republicans blasted the proposed legislation for including a grant program aimed at encouraging construction of local infrastructure to promote healthier movement. The new Senate health bill held onto a billion-dollar grant program to promote walking to […]

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