Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Network Roundup

When we talk about competing modes of transportation we’re usually focused on the strained relationship between drivers and cyclists, or drivers and transit, or drivers and pedestrians. With so much street space taken up by cars, tensions also erupt, of course, between cyclists and pedestrians, and even cyclists and transit. We’ve written before about the […]

Figures are starting to come in from London’s investment in “cycle superhighways,” and the data make a strong argument for more robust dedicated bike infrastructure. A Transport for London study found that cycling is up 70 percent along routes where the city’s beefed-up bikeways were installed, reports Network blog Cyclicio.us. Part of the increase is […]

Just a few months ago, a handful of governors made a big show of their “budget consciousness” by torpedoing passenger rail projects. Given that highway projects represent a much larger share of a state’s spending, we might expect these fiscal watchdogs to be tamping down on road construction with equal fervor. That does not appear […]

Will Iowa join Ohio and Wisconsin in rejecting federal funds for passenger rail? Republican state legislators recently introduced a budget proposal that does not include the matching funds that were supposed to be Iowa’s contribution to a high-speed rail line connecting its largest cities to Chicago. The federal government had committed $230 of the $310 […]

To opponents of sustainable transportation, incremental reforms designed to level the playing field between cars and other modes of transportation can too easily be seen — or characterized — as a plot to take away their vehicles and homes in the suburbs. For a particularly apt example, look no further than Fred Barnes’ recent article […]

SUVs have long been perceived by purchasers as providing added “safety,” presumably by giving a commanding view through the windshield and some extra space between driver and metal shell. Of course, there are also a few downsides to driving a vehicle the size of a seafaring yacht. One of them is that drivers of SUVs […]