Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Road Design

North Carolina: Tell State Lawmakers Not to Outlaw Road Diets — Today

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 14, 2015 | 3 Comments

The language of a bill being hashed out right now in Raleigh could determine whether North Carolina cities have the freedom to redesign streets to improve safety and promote a healthier range of transportation options. A provision of House Bill 44 — specifically Section 7 — would prohibit reducing the width of state-managed roads to add bike lanes […]

Call for Submissions: The Best Urban Street Transformations of 2014

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 4, 2014 | 5 Comments

Did your city implement a road diet this year that really knocks your socks off? Is there a street near you with a new light rail line, or a protected bikeway, or fresh red transit lanes and bus bulbs? How about a stoop-to-stoop rebuild that created more space for people to enjoy the sidewalks? Well, we […]

Will Montgomery County Botch the Streets in a Model Suburban Retrofit?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 1, 2014 | 6 Comments

Four years ago, White Flint, a neighborhood of North Bethesda, Maryland, most known for its shopping mall, caught the attention of urbanists around the nation with a proposal to reimagine car-oriented suburban streets as a walkable, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood. Montgomery County adopted a plan for the town that would narrow its wide arterial roadways and […]

Foxx: New U.S. DOT Bike/Ped Initiative “Critical to Future of the Country”

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 10, 2014 | 8 Comments

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx just announced to the Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Pro-Place conference in Pittsburgh that the department is “putting together the most comprehensive, forward-leaning initiative U.S. DOT has ever put forward on bike/ped issues.” He said the initiative “is critical to the future of the country.” The top priority, he said, will be closing gaps […]

Moving Cars vs. Investing in Places — The Struggle for American Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 9, 2014 | 13 Comments

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett are brawling in the press over a proposed highway project — a fight that exemplifies the enormous rift in America about what transportation policy should accomplish. Walker still thinks about transportation projects the same way the interstate planners of the 1950s thought about them. In […]

The Street Ballet of a Bike Lane Behind a Transit Stop

By Michael Andersen | Jun 12, 2014 | 15 Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Why don’t more cities escape the curse of bus-bike leap-frogging by putting bike lanes between transit platforms and sidewalks? Though “floating bus stops” and similar designs are being used in many cities, […]

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