Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Streetsie Awards

Call for Submissions: The Best Urban Street Transformations of 2014

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 4, 2014 | 5 Comments

Did your city implement a road diet this year that really knocks your socks off? Is there a street near you with a new light rail line, or a protected bikeway, or fresh red transit lanes and bus bulbs? How about a stoop-to-stoop rebuild that created more space for people to enjoy the sidewalks? Well, we […]

Streetsie Awards: The Worst of 2013

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 3, 2014 | No Comments

We’ve talked about some of the highlights of 2013, but truth be told, there were plenty of lowlights too. For example… Outrage of the Year: Our readers were pretty universally outraged by a Texas judge’s inexcusably light sentence of 10 years’ probation for a teenager who killed four people with his car while his blood […]

Streetsie Awards: The Best of 2013 (Part One)

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 2, 2014 | No Comments

Happy 2014, everybody! I hope you had a great winter break and got home safely from your New Years Eve revelry (remembering, of course, the perils of walking or taking transit while drunk). We had an incredible response to our Streetsie awards poll. Here are the winners of Streetsblog’s annual awards for awesomeness. (The boneheads […]

Streetsie Awards People’s Choice: Vote for the Best and Worst of 2013

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 20, 2013 | 5 Comments

We’ve been very restrained all year, people. Out there in the world, people were doing crazy things and amazing things, and all year we have refrained from giving out cheeky awards for awesomeness or idiocy. Well all right, we may have accidentally given out a few cheeky awards along the way — worst intersection (Omaha), […]