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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: Famartin/Wikipedia/CC

Federal Program Would Help Cities Tear Down Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 14, 2019 | No Comments
A new pot of money would help undo the sometimes-racist legacy of urban highway construction.
Photo: Smart Growth America

Salt Lake City May Create Free-Fare Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 9, 2019 | No Comments
Two mayoral candidates have plans to make transit free. And a new survey shows overwhelming public support.
A mural celebrates Phoenix's plans to extend light rail into South Central. Photo: Valley Metro

Koch Brothers-Backed Group is Behind Assault on Phoenix Light Rail

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 7, 2019 | No Comments
The Latino business owner who was the face of the campaign has quit, saying she was "used."
The "city of tomorrow" via Ford Corporate

Autonomous Car Industry’s Frightening Vision for Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 2, 2019 | No Comments
Cattle gates for pedestrians in NYC. "Antiseptic cities." This is what auto industry officials tell the New York Times they envision for self-driving cars.
Photo: Adam Coppola

Study: Drivers Behave More Dangerously Around Women Cyclists

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 1, 2019 | No Comments
Research finding that drivers pass women more closely may help explain why women express greater fears about cycling.
Amy Cohen, holding a photo of her son Sammy Cohen Eckstein, stands next to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at a Families for Safe Streets rally. Photo: Families for Safe Streets

Why Bill de Blasio’s ‘Vision Zero for the Nation’ Shouldn’t be Laughed off

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 1, 2019 | No Comments
In peer countries with much better safety records, presidents and prime ministers make traffic safety a national priority. So mock the New York City mayor at your own risk.
Rendering: CPL

Atlanta is Blowing Safety Money on a Flashy Ped Bridge

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 30, 2019 | No Comments
Atlanta has a $1 billion sidewalk backlog. But a $33 million stadium bridge is taking precedent over desperately needed repairs.
Photo: 9News.com

A Denver Newscaster’s Epic Takedown of Bike-Lane Nimbys

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 30, 2019 | No Comments
"Our streets belong to everyone, so everyone can get from here to there with as little fear of being killed as possible."
Clayton Homes, a 300-unit public housing complex, will be partly torn down to widen practically every highway in North Houston. Photo: Google Maps

Houston’s Highway Mega-Plan: An Environmental Justice Disaster

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 29, 2019 | No Comments
Thousands of Houstonians are in danger of losing their homes as Texas proceeds with a massive, $7 billion plan to widen almost every highway in North and downtown Houston.
Accessibility to jobs in Baltimore by bike facilities. Map: University of Minnesota Accessibility Observatory

Better Bike Infrastructure Expands Economic Opportunity: Report

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 24, 2019 | No Comments
In cities with good bike infrastructure, residents can access thousands of additional jobs on two wheels, a new study finds.
The green and blue areas will no longer have to comply with Houston's minimum parking requirements. Map: Houston Planning Commission

Houston Rolling Back Parking Requirements

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 19, 2019 | No Comments
The city will leave it up to businesses to decide how many parking spaces they need in two center-city neighborhoods.
A post-crash photo of the self driving Uber car that killed a Tempe pedestrian. Photo: NTSB

Pittsburgh Reveals the Downside of Self-Driving Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 18, 2019 | No Comments
Wider inequality. More sprawl. Worse transit. Those are some of the outcomes we could see from self-driving cars in cities, according to a Pittsburgh-based transit advocacy group.
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