Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Network Roundup

Around the Network today: The Pricetag for Parking in China: Right now, parking policies in China actually seem to be more market-oriented than in the United States. Residential parking spaces in Beijing fetch as much as $125,000, which Paul Barter at Network blog Reinventing Parking says is a sign that parking is currently priced at […]

They don’t have the prize-winning glutes of spandex-wearing racers. They can’t bask in the cooler-than-you aloofness of bicycle messengers. But car-free parents are arguably the most hard-core subculture in the cycling world. I can barely manage to keep myself clothed and fed, and if I have to bike seven miles one way and the humidity […]

In many American cities, public transportation is inseparable from issues of race and class. That is especially true when the city maintains a bare-bones system whose riders are dependent on transit to get around. Enter Columbus, Ohio. We reported before how business leaders in this Midwestern city were making a stink about the presence of […]

All indications are that the bike scene in Detroit is really taking off. Group rides are teeming (3,200 people are registered for this year’s Tour De Troit). New bike shops are springing up in some of the city’s hipper neighborhoods. The cash-strapped city still only has one bike lane. But evidence like this video, posted […]

We’ve been following Detroit’s efforts to remake itself as a less car-dependent, more sustainable city, with great interest. There seems to be a growing understanding in the Motor City that bikeability, walkability and improved transit service are imperative to remake the economy and reverse the city’s infamous urban decay. So much so that private investors […]

Managing the Streetsblog Network always keeps me on my toes. I just never know what is going to pop up in the feed in the morning. Sometimes the story is about decision-makers poised to do something short-sighted, like when local officials in Fort Worth, Texas abruptly canceled the city’s streetcar project, or when Philadelphia flirted […]