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Parking Madness Kicks Off With Milwaukee vs. Jersey City – Cast Your Vote!

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 21, 2013 | 20 Comments

Earlier this month we asked you: What is the worst parking crater in America? What is the ugliest parking scar draining the life from a downtown? And Streetsblog readers answered. In all we received 23 submissions from nearly as many states, from the blazing blacktop of San Bernardino, California, to the asphalt expanses of Philadelphia […]

The Revolving Door: TxDOT’s Phil Wilson, “Revolver in Chief”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 1, 2013 | 9 Comments

This is the final installment in our three-part “Revolving Door” series about how cronyism in state DOTs leads to wasteful highway building. The first part profiled Ohio DOT chief Jerry Wray and the second part looked at Oklahoma DOT boss Gary Ridley. Both Wray and Ridley left the DOTs to work as asphalt industry lobbyists, only to return […]

The Revolving Door: Oklahoma’s Gary Ridley – Asphalt Lobbyist, DOT Chief

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 30, 2013 | 9 Comments

This is the second installment in our three-part “Revolving Door” series about how cronyism in state DOTs leads to wasteful highway building. The first part profiled Ohio DOT chief Jerry Wray, who has switched back and forth between working directly for the asphalt industry and shoveling money to the asphalt industry as a public official. […]

The State DOT Revolving Door: Meet Jerry Wray, Ohio’s “Asphalt Sheriff”

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 29, 2013 | 11 Comments

One of the top goals of the national transportation reform movement is to get state DOTs to spend their money more wisely. The feds distribute tens of billions of dollars to state DOTs each year with very few strings attached. But for every state like Massachusetts or Tennessee that’s decided to shift toward building walkable […]

Visionary Transportation Bureaucrats, Part 5: Shailen Bhatt and Kirk Steudle

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

This is the fifth and final installment of Streetsblog’s series profiling 11 officials who are bringing American cities and towns into the 21st century when it comes to transportation and planning policy. Here are the nine public servants whose work we’ve highlighted so far. Part one: Janette Sadik-Khan, Gabe Klein, and Richard Hall Part two: […]

Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 4: Jay Primus and Rina Cutler

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 19, 2012 | 11 Comments

This is the fourth part in Streetsblog’s series profiling 11 officials who are bringing American cities and towns into the 21st century when it comes to transportation and planning policy. Read the earlier profiles in part one, part two, and part three. Jay Primus Manager, SFMTA’s SFPark program In your average city, parking policy is pretty rigid: […]

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