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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

Phoenix pedestrians are dying at a a rate of about one every three days. But the city has been slow to respond. Photo: Chris English/CC/Wikimedia

Can Phoenix Be Shamed Into Protecting Pedestrians?

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2018 | No Comments
For years, the city's streets department delayed action on safer street design as hundreds of people lost their lives. Now advocates hope to force the agency's hand.
Bogotá reduced traffic deaths after reframing the issue in a way that appealed to widely accepted values. Photo: Felipe Restrepo Acosta/Wikimedia Commons

“Life Is Sacred” — How Bogotá Reduced Road Deaths and Homicides Together

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 16, 2018 | No Comments
The city's traffic fatality rate declined by roughly 50 percent between 1996 and 2006. Key to that result was an initiative to address traffic deaths and homicides in tandem.

Parking Madness Final Four: Lansing vs Philadelphia

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 12, 2018 | No Comments
Which deserves to go to the parking crater championship? The state capitol asphalt acreage or the sports complex mega-lot?
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

Losing a Son, Starting a Movement

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 12, 2018 | No Comments
Amy Cohen of Families for Safe Streets is empowering people around the country who've lost loved ones to traffic violence to fight for change.

Parking Madness: Fremont vs. Hicksville

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 11, 2018 | No Comments
If you've ever wondered what's wrong with American commuter rail, take a good look at the two parking craters facing off today.
There are as many as 15,000 dockless bikes on the streets of Dallas. It's causing some issues. Photo: LimeBike Sightings/Instagram

Dallas City Council Rejects Fees on Dockless Bike-Share Companies

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 10, 2018 | No Comments
The biggest bike-share experiment in the U.S. right now is happening in Dallas, and the city isn't quite sure what to do next.

Parking Madness: Houston vs. Philadelphia

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 9, 2018 | No Comments
These parking craters wouldn't be so large without government subsidies.
Photo: Dongho Chang

Seattle Could Be the First U.S. City to Institute Congestion Pricing

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 5, 2018 | No Comments
Mayor Jenny Durkan says she wants to have a true central city congestion pricing system in place by 2021.

Parking Madness: San Diego vs. Nashville

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 5, 2018 | No Comments
Which should advance to round two: San Diego's casino crater or Nashville's stadium crater?
Photo: LivableStreets Alliance

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Staffs Up for Better Bus Service and Safer Walking and Biking

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2018 | No Comments
Walsh's budget signals a commitment to act on his transportation promises.

Parking Madness: Philadelphia vs. Long Beach

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2018 | No Comments
Philadelphia's triple-stadium parking crater takes on a parking-riddled campus in Long Beach, California.
Photo: Joe Mabel

Landlords in Seattle Can’t Force Renters to Pay for Parking Anymore

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 3, 2018 | No Comments
Renters who don't own cars will no longer have to pay for parking spaces they don't use.
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