Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Walking

Do You Have Car-Free Streets? A New Resource for North American Ciclovias

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Mar 1, 2012 | 4 Comments

Pop quiz: Where was the first ciclovia? I bet you said Bogotá. But, surprisingly, you’d be wrong. Sure, the Colombian city is widely credited with popularizing the concept of ciclovias, which temporarily close streets to cars to liberate the roads for people. For several hours every Sunday, more than a million citizens in Bogotá take […]

Strike Three: Another Senator Takes Another Swipe At Bike-Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 27, 2011 | 8 Comments

Last month, the Senate’s notorious vote-blocker, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, tried to obstruct Senate process until they voted on his measure to take bike/ped funding out of the transportation bill. He failed. Then last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) suggested keeping bike/ped money but stripping out lots of other budget items that serve cyclists and […]

Time to See Older Drivers Through Dry Eyes

By Anne Lutz Fernandez | Oct 24, 2011 | 29 Comments

“Have you cried at your desk at work yet today? Would you like to?” Time Magazine recently asked, inviting its readers to indulge in emotion on behalf of an Iowa couple whose story went viral last week. Gordon and Norma Yeager died as the result of a car crash, the same way about 630 Americans […]

Rail~volution: Will New Americans Fuel Smart Growth or Suburbanism?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 17, 2011 | 13 Comments

This year’s Rail~volution conference — the annual gathering of livability advocates, urban sustainability coordinators, and transit agency officials – kicked off today with remarks by Chris Leinberger of the Brookings Institution and Manuel Pastor, who teaches demographics and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Leinberger noted that Hollywood does more consumer research than anyone […]

House Prepares to Vote on Extension, Coburn Will Try to Kill Bike/Ped

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 13, 2011 | 4 Comments

In a couple of hours, the House will vote on the transportation extension bill – under unanimous consent rules. That means a single vote in opposition could delay passage. It’s unclear how we went from a House determined to cut spending levels by more than 30 percent to a House unanimously committed to passing a […]

CNT Busts “Drive Till You Qualify” Myth in the D.C. Region

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 5, 2011 | 2 Comments

Maybe we can finally lay the whole “drive till you qualify” myth to rest now. You probably already suspected that driving farther and farther outside the city limits until you found a house you could afford was not the smartest way to go about buying a home. You may have been tipped off by the […]

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