Washington State DOT Chief: Fixing Congestion With Highways “Fiscally Impossible”
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"The problem is we don't provide affordable housing and transportation solutions," Roger Millar told a convention of highway builders last week.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about AASHTO
State DOTs to Feds: We Don’t Want to Reveal Our Impact on Climate Change
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Every year state DOTs receive tens of billions of dollars in transportation funds from the federal government. By and large, they can do whatever they want with the money, which in most states means wasting enormous sums on pork-laden highway projects. Now that U.S. DOT might impose some measure of accountability on how states use these […]
AASHTO’s Draft Bikeway Guide Includes Protected Bike Lanes and More
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. As the most influential U.S. transportation engineering organization rewrites its bike guide, there seems to be general agreement that protected bike lanes should be included for the first time. A review panel appointed by the American […]
State DOT Engineers Say They’ll Do Better on Walking, Biking, Transit
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In a welcome sign from an industry group that has been slow to embrace street designs that prioritize walking, biking, and transit, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) released a statement last week saying it intends to “better address multi-modal issues.” AASHTO’s street design manuals are highly influential and lay out standards that many engineers […]
State Engineers Warm to Protected Bike Lanes for Next AASHTO Bike Guide
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. The professional transportation engineers’ association that writes the book on U.S. street design is meeting this week in Seattle — and talking quite a bit about protected bike lanes. As we reported in […]
Biking and Walking Get About as Much Research Funding as Chicken Trucks
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When traffic engineers don’t want to install protected bike lanes, they’ll often say that more research is needed to prove their safety (because any results from outside America don’t count, of course). But then when opportunities arise to study the safety of protected bike lanes, the engineering establishment doesn’t take advantage. And so the cycle […]