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Talking Headways Podcast: How Oakland Got it So Right
This week, we talk to a key official in Oakland, who explains how the city is creating the nation's biggest open-streets network practically overnight. Are you listening, Mayor de Blasio?
April 23, 2020
The ‘Social Distancing Machine’ Proves We Need Wider Sidewalks Now
A group of Toronto performance artists/placemakers are behind this genius video.
April 17, 2020
This is How You Do Temporary Bike Lanes During COVID-19
The temporary protected bike lane in Downtown Brooklyn is an almost entirely unmitigated success.
April 2, 2020
MTA Leads Multiple Agencies in Demanding $25B from Congress
The leaders of 10 transit systems are begging leaders in Washington for “at least” $25 billion in emergency funding as they battle the twin symptoms of the coronavirus: freefalling ridership and additional costs.
March 24, 2020
10 Major Cities Unite to Urge Feds to Fund Better Urban Transit
President Trump is doing such a poor job of funding infrastructure in urban areas that 10 major cities have banded together to jointly demand immediate action.
March 16, 2020
Streetsblog 101: How Pop Culture Stigmatizes Public Transit
Ride a bus or a train in a movie, and chances are, you'll end up blown up, stabbed, or at least pretty grossed out.
March 12, 2020
America is Spending Billions Just to Make Traffic Worse
And these five graphics made it clearer than ever.
March 11, 2020
Op-Ed: Every City Should Try This Innovative Way To Fund Transit
When the city builds a train line or a bus route, adjacent property values skyrocket. Why shouldn't the public benefit more from that phenomenon?
March 9, 2020
Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture
Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don't have to.
March 5, 2020
Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer
Advocates of replacing the Brooklyn Queens expressway are point to Seattle as a success story. But others say: not so fast.
March 5, 2020
