Streetsblog Network

Seattle is getting ready to embark on a construction project that will put the squeeze on a few of its major highways. This event, ironically, served as a jumping off point for local media to indignantly demand a tolling "holiday" on the SR 520 floating bridge.

The Trinity Toll Road embodies Texas's destructive compulsion for expanding highways.

Companies like Uber and Lyft make any car owner a potential paid chauffeur, and their services are increasingly widespread in American cities.

Here's a great example of the wrong way to handle a tricky pedestrian crossing in your town.

Can safer streets and livelier public spaces help knit Detroit back together?

Our friends at Transit Miami have been writing for years about the horrible conditions on the Rickenbacker Causeway, a key transportation link for the city. In 2010, they wrote that, without any intervention, the car-centric design would continue to cause loss of life and limb: "As long as we have a roadway designed to induce speed, the speeding will continue and bicyclists and pedestrians will continue to get hurt."

Even a lot of routine road projects don't make much sense when you apply a little critical analysis.

Just a few months ago, Denver opened its first protected bike lane on 15th Street. But was that a one-off project or will the Mile High City change the way it designs streets citywide?

Here's a group of business owners who understand the power of safe, multi-modal city streets.