Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

AASHTO: New Rule Makes it Too Hard to Ignore Cyclists and Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 12, 2011 | 30 Comments

For years, state DOTs have exploited a loophole of federal government policy that allowed them to build massive, publicly funded projects without accommodating non-motorized users as long as they could show that “due consideration” had been given to bicyclists and pedestrians. But last year, USDOT gave that requirement some teeth. USDOT issued a directive specifying […]

Houston Planners Will Spend All Their Federal Air Quality Funding on Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

It looks like the Houston region still has a long way to go in balancing the needs of cyclists and pedestrians with those of drivers. The region’s Transportation Policy Council came down largely on the side of auto infrastructure Friday in deciding how to allocate tens of millions of dollars in federal funding. On the […]

Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No.

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 13, 2011 | 13 Comments

The first time Adolfo Hernandez went to the National Bike Summit, he got a sense of just how monochromatic the livability movement can be. “I think there were about 300 or 400 people,” he said. “And really, I could count on one hand people I thought were people of color.” Hernandez is the director of […]

How Pedestrian! The Walking Movement Flexes Its Muscle

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 16, 2010 | 1 Comment

People tend to identify most strongly with things that set them apart. If everyone’s doing something, it hardly seems worth calling attention to the fact that you do it too. Which may be part of the reason it’s been hard for pedestrian advocacy organizations to build a strong identity around walking. Urban cyclists are constantly […]

Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the American […]

State DOTs Make Deeper Bike-Ped Budget Cuts Than Expected

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 1, 2010 | 4 Comments

We reported recently that the federal government was demanding $2.2 billion back from state DOTs in rescissions — money that was already allocated to states that they were then asked to give back. Bike and pedestrian advocates were worried that states would disproportionately target active transportation projects for cuts, instead of carving into car-centric programs. They were […]

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