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Fed Up With an Apathetic City Hall, Phoenix Complete Streets Volunteers Resign En Masse
Seven members of Phoenix's Complete Streets Advisory Board resigned in disgust this week, frustrated by the lack of action from city officials to make streets safer for walking and biking.
June 1, 2018
Phoenix Dithers on Traffic Safety While People Die
In a city where streets are dreadful for pedestrians, the victims of dangerous walking conditions are mostly poor people, and public officials aren't responsive to the risks they face.
May 24, 2018
Insane Comic Books Warn Phoenix Children That Biking Will Kill Them
Hey kids, the Phoenix Department of Street Transportation has a fun message for you: Riding your bike is likely to result in a gory horror scene. If you don't wear your helmet, of course.
April 21, 2016
Using L.A. Traffic Counts to Justify Sprawl in the Arizona-Nevada Desert
A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good.
September 24, 2014
Sprawl Madness Redux: Driving 17 Miles to Go 500 Feet in Phoenix
Last year, Angie posted an unfortunate map of two houses in Orlando that share a backyard but are seven miles apart if you take the disconnected local street system. That's quite a distance to ask your neighbor for a cup of sugar.
May 20, 2014