Angie Schmitt
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
When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby
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One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
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Montclair, California, is the latest American city to fall for the dangerous fiction that outlawing the act of walking while looking at a mobile device will make people safer.
America’s Stunted National Debate About Infrastructure
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Supporting "infrastructure spending" in all its vagueness is not good enough. We need to talk about what we want to build.
Seattle Cut Car Commuting Downtown While Adding 60,000 Jobs
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Don't let anyone tell you a healthier economy is inextricably linked to more driving.
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
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It's not a coincidence that bicycling remains dangerous in our helmet-obsessed safety culture.
Suburban Segregationist Brooks Patterson Breaks Up Detroit’s Hard-Won Transit Coalition
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Representing the region's primarily white northern suburbs, Patterson is blocking a transit measure that would improve job access for black Detroiters.
Baltimore’s Surprise Subway Shutdown: Larry Hogan Passes the Buck
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While the Maryland governor prepares for a bonanza of toll road spending, he let the most important transit route in the state fall into dangerously poor condition.
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Another Con
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The White House outline does nothing to reform a half-century of highway-centric federal policy that has left America choking on traffic.
Former California Mayor Calls New Bikeway “Urban Rape”
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"No other word would be proper" to describe the bike lane besides "rape," according to the former mayor of San Luis Obispo.
Texas DOT Aims for More People to Get Killed in Traffic
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Texas is still planning for more traffic and more asphalt, and as a result, its forecasts still expect a growing number of people to lose their lives in traffic crashes.
Evidence From Boston That Uber Is Making Traffic Worse
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Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft are exacerbating rush-hour traffic jams in Boston, according to new research by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
Is the Dockless Bike-Share Revolution a Mirage?
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There are big questions about the venture-funded dockless bike-share model that go deeper than the propriety of where the bikes are parked.