Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Rural Areas

Meet the Rural Region That Opted for VelociBuses Over Highway Expansion

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2013 | 5 Comments

The four sparsely populated mountain counties make up the Roaring Fork Valley extend over roughly 50 miles on Colorado’s Western Slope. About 32,000 people are interspersed throughout the valley in small towns like Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs, but the local economy revolves around the nearby resort town of Aspen. This, clearly, is challenging terrain […]

Making Rural Transit Work

By Angie Schmitt | May 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

Transit in rural areas is tricky. Folks need to go farther, the passengers are more dispersed, and there’s less money to go around. But that doesn’t make it any less necessary. On the contrary, according to a new report from Reconnecting America [PDF], nearly 40 percent of the United States’ transit-dependent population — including senior […]