Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Traffic

Mica Is Against “Paving Over America,” For “Cars in Shoulder Lanes”

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

I know I said I wasn’t going to post during my vacation, but I thought you’d be interested in this new report from the FHWA, and, perhaps more notably, the Republican reaction to it. The agency just submitted a report to Congress on the use of highway shoulder lanes as traffic lanes. (It’s not online, […]

Report: Want to Ease Commuter Pain? Highways and Sprawl Won’t Help

By Noah Kazis | Sep 29, 2010 | No Comments

Imagine two drivers leaving downtown to head home. Each of them sits in traffic for the first ten miles of the commute but at that point, their paths diverge. The first one has reached home. The second has another twenty miles to drive, though luckily for her, the roads are clear and congestion doesn’t slow […]

In Texas, One Newspaper Laments the Highway Lanes Not Built

By Elana Schor | Jan 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Transportation Enhancements program, which requires states to set aside 10 percent of their federal transport money for new bicycle and pedestrian facilities, among other projects, turns 19 years old this year. But you’d almost never know it after reading Saturday’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in which the paper tallies — with no shortage of alarm […]

Streetsblog Q&A: Bush DOT Chief Backs Transport Tech Funding

By Elana Schor | Oct 8, 2009 | No Comments

Former Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who served for eight years in George W. Bush’s DOT, sat down with Streetsblog Capitol Hill yesterday to urge that Congress add a dedicated funding stream of $1 billion each year for transportation technology to the next long-term infrastructure bill. Since leaving office, Peters has transitioned to private consulting work […]

The ‘Movie Ticket’ Theory of Transportation Pricing

By Elana Schor | Sep 10, 2009 | No Comments

Let’s say you’re at the movies, and you look up at the box office only to see no ticket prices listed. You know you’re going to have to pay for the show eventually — perhaps even during income-tax season — but for now you can watch all you want, seemingly for free. (Photo: Roloff via […]

How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute?

By Elana Schor | Sep 9, 2009 | 5 Comments

(Data: IBM’s CPI) As Washington conventional wisdom has it, raising gas taxes or creating a vehicle miles traveled tax to pay for transportation is impossible during the current recession. After all, who would want to squeeze cash-strapped commuters during tough economic times? As it turns out, the public is very willing to pay for the […]

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