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Angie Schmitt

@schmangee
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Recent Posts

Photo: Minneapolis 2040

Minneapolis Moves to Eliminate Mandatory Parking

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 13, 2018 | No Comments
The end of single-family zoning rule has gotten all the attention. But Minneapolis's new plan is groundbreaking on transportation as well.
Photo: NACTO

Safety Officials to Cities: Stop Buying Such Huge Trucks

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 11, 2018 | No Comments
Cities that are serious about achieving Vision Zero have to tackle large truck design. Garbage trucks, fire trucks, commercial freight trucks, which comprise only four percent of vehicles on the streets, are responsible for almost twice that number of pedestrian fatalities and more than one in 10 bike fatalities, according to a new report from […]
Photo: Gilpe/Wikimedia Commons

Free Public Transit! (Sorry, It’s in Luxembourg)

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 7, 2018 | No Comments
The movement for free transit is gaining ground in Europe — and, maybe, here.
Image: All for Transportation

Tampa Voters Supported Transit Measure — But Sore Losers Want to Overturn it

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 6, 2018 | No Comments
Yet again, there's a Koch brothers connection.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing a Green New Deal. Photo: Kerri Evelyn Harris/Flickr/CC

A Green New Deal? Here Are Some Suggestions

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 4, 2018 | No Comments
If the "Green New Deal" only focuses on reducing emissions from cars and trucks, it won't go far enough.
Detroit's downtown parking lots via Data Driven Detroit

Detroit Hurt By Too Much Parking

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 3, 2018 | No Comments
Just two families own a huge portion of downtown's Detroit's surprisingly profitable surface parking, a Free Press investigation finds.
Photo: Better Buses MSP

Trump Administration Finally Releasing Transit Cash

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 29, 2018 | No Comments
Trump's Federal Transit Administration is finally releasing long-ago-approved funding for major projects.
Photo: Seattle Streetcar

Streetcars and Development: It’s Complicated

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 28, 2018 | No Comments
A new study finds that modern streetcar systems are not great as engines of development.
Photo: Sciennes Primary School

The European Answer to School-Drop-Off Chaos

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 27, 2018 | No Comments
"School Streets" prohibit cars on the roadways surrounding schools. They encourage walking and biking. And they reduce crashes.
Photo: Cramos/Wikimedi

U.S. Finally Legalizes Modern, European-Style Train Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 26, 2018 | No Comments
Finally, U.S. trains will no longer have be be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults" thanks to long-awaited changes in federal regulations.

Albuquerque’s Groundbreaking Bus Project Stalled

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 26, 2018 | No Comments
A problem with the electric bus fleet means a much-hyped example of bus rapid transit will be delayed by up to 18 months.
Photo: Nathan Rupert/Flickr/CC

Study: Dockless Mobility More Popular with People of Color in D.C.

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 16, 2018 | No Comments
Dockless bike share is doing a better job reaching people of color than traditional city-sponsored bike-sharing systems, according to a new analysis
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