Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Network Roundup

The new CEOs for Cities report on the misguided metrics that fuel sprawl is getting a lot of attention today on the Network and in local media. Bike Portland and The Infrastructurist are both featuring the study, which found major flaws in a metric that’s widely used to justify road expansion. Several local press outlets […]

On Monday, the U.S. DOT released a report concluding that the number of deaths caused by distracted drivers dropped 6 percent in 2009 — from 5,838 the previous year to 5,474. The report was a prelude to the agency’s second national summit on distracted driving, where the message from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was very […]

Lace up your walking shoes. Tune up your bicycle. Ditch your keys. Today is World Car Free Day. The global event to reclaim streets from the automobile has been building momentum since it launched in Toledo, Spain 16 years ago. Network blog The City Fix is offering a glimpse of what different cities throughout the […]

Earlier this year we wrote about the Ciudad des Luces/City of Lights program in Los Angeles — a project of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition “to increase working-class Latino immigrant bicyclists’ safety and empower them to educate and spread bicycle safety information and advocacy to their communities.” The outreach is especially important because low-income […]

What if cities used parking fees to improve public transit? Toronto has been doing just that, to the tune of roughly $50 million per year. In the U.S., Boulder, Colorado uses revenue from public parking garages to fund bus passes. Now transit advocates in the city of Miami are asking, “Why not us?” As Miami’s […]

New Jersey is becoming a safer place to walk and bike, new data shows. The state has seen an eight percent decline in traffic fatalities, according to preliminary crash statistics for the year, and the trend is particularly encouraging for pedestrians and cyclists, writes Michelle Ernst at Mobilizing the Region: A New Jersey police officer […]