Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Suburbia

Civil Rights Group Demands End to Car-Centric Transportation Policies

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 15, 2011 | 4 Comments

“This is the civil rights dilemma: Our laws purport to level the playing field, but our transportation choices have effectively barred millions of people from accessing it.” So says a report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund, a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The coalition wasn’t involved in the transportation reauthorization debate […]

Meet the Obscure Unelected Agencies Strangling Many U.S. Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 21, 2011 | 8 Comments

Do you know the name of your local Metropolitan Planning Organization or Council of Government? Most Americans don’t. In fact, most people probably have no idea these agencies even exist, let alone what they do. Yet they are surprisingly powerful and play a substantial role in shaping the places where we live and work. Led […]

T4A Responds: Yes, Bring Transit to Suburban Seniors (Within Reason)

By Sean Barry | Jul 6, 2011 | No Comments

Cross-posted at T4America’s blog. Sean Barry is a communications associate at Transportation for America. In a Streetsblog post last Thursday, Tanya tackled a question that has been marinating since Transportation for America released “Aging in Place, Stuck without Options,” addressing seniors’ mobility challenges: Is it the job of overextended transit agencies – and the responsibility […]

In a Growth-Oriented System, Youngstown, Ohio Struggles to Shrink

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 5, 2011 | 8 Comments

Youngstown, Ohio has its share of problems. Once a single-industry steel town, the rust belt poster child has seen its population dwindle from 115,000 residents to barely 67,000 over just three decades. For the better part of the last century, the city was known for its mafia activity, and shaking off the residue of government […]

Bring Transit to Senior Citizens, or Bring Seniors to Transit?

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

You don’t hear me say this often, but here goes: Randal O’Toole of the Cato Institute made a good point. At yesterday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on transit access for senior citizens and people with disabilities, the sprawl-boosting O’Toole posed this question: “Should transit come to the people or should people come to transit?” The […]

Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Us: Public Safety Lessons From Suburbia

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 7, 2011 | 27 Comments

People choose suburban neighborhoods over urban ones for myriad reasons: because they can afford it, because the schools are good, because it’s a quiet street, or crimes rates are low, or everyone walks around with baby strollers and golden retrievers, or their family is nearby. But countless other consequences stream from their decision of where […]

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