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Scott Walker’s Bid to Strip Street Safety From Wisconsin Road Projects
There's really no argument: GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker has been an absolute disaster for transportation progress in Wisconsin. As governor, he's slashed funding for transit, isolating urban workers in Milwaukee. Meanwhile, he's increased funding for all sorts of wasteful highway projects, like the billion-dollar widening of I-94 in Milwaukee, pilfering funds for local roads in the process.
May 11, 2015
Connecticut’s New BRT Line Smashes Ridership Expectations
March 30 marked the launch of CTfastrak, the 10-mile busway running between Hartford and New Britain that has all the ingredients of real bus rapid transit: exclusive lanes, off-board fare collection, level boarding, and multiple routes using the BRT infrastructure.
May 8, 2015
The Real Danger to Children Is Cars, Not Strangers
Free-range parenting is having a moment in the national media, after neighbors in Silver Spring, Maryland, called the police to report that two children of the Meitiv family were frequently seen -- gasp! -- walking home from the park. Whether children need to be supervised all the time or should have the freedom to navigate their community is a surprisingly polarizing topic.
May 7, 2015
Abandoning Maryland’s Purple and Red Lines Would Cost a Lot
Since his election in November, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has been threatening to kill two major transit projects that are nearly ready to begin construction. Both the Purple Line and the Red Line are among the most significant transit expansions in the country right now.
May 6, 2015
A Fix for Parking Craters Gains Momentum in Providence
Like many American cities, Providence has a downtown parking crater problem. About 70 acres of prime land in the central business district is occupied by surface parking.
May 5, 2015
Will Midwest Governors Drain the Great Lakes to Foster Sprawl?
A story with major implications for development patterns in the U.S. is playing out right now in greater Milwaukee.
May 4, 2015
Bipartisan Bill Proposes National Complete Streets Policy
Streets that safely accommodate everyone, from motorists to cyclists, pedestrians, and transit users -- complete streets -- have become policy for many American communities, having been implemented in more than 700 local jurisdictions and states around the country. A new bill in Washington attempts, again, to make complete streets the federal standard as well.
May 1, 2015
Will Private Transit Startups Help or Hurt Public Transit?
The rise of private transit operators like Bridj, Leap, and Uberpool has raised questions about equity in places including the Bay Area, where such services are fast replicating. A related issue is the impact they will have on traditional public transit systems.
April 30, 2015
Absurd “Pedestrian Safety Kit” Highlights the Perils of Walking in America
Given how fundamental walking is to our humanity and our health, it's sad to see how marginalized pedestrians have become in our transportation system.
April 29, 2015
Is Your City Making Full Use of Existing Transit Investments?
Chicago's rail transit infrastructure has a lot of unused capacity, Yonah Freemark wrote last week on the blog of the Metropolitan Planning Council, and making use of it might be cheaper and easier than expanding the system.
April 27, 2015