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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

When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 21, 2018 | No Comments
One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
Rather than address the systemic threats to pedestrian safety, it's easier for some cities to blame victims. Photo: Don Kostelec

American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 20, 2018 | No Comments
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.
States keep building monster interchanges we don't need.

America’s Stunted National Debate About Infrastructure

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 20, 2018 | No Comments
Supporting "infrastructure spending" in all its vagueness is not good enough. We need to talk about what we want to build.
Transit, biking, and walking -- not car commuting -- are absorbing job growth in downtown Seattle. Graphic: Commute Seattle

Seattle Cut Car Commuting Downtown While Adding 60,000 Jobs

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 15, 2018 | No Comments
Don't let anyone tell you a healthier economy is inextricably linked to more driving.
The only photo in the city of Chicago's online section about bicycling is this image of a cyclist helping another cyclist fit her helmet. Photo: City of Chicago

How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2018 | No Comments
It's not a coincidence that bicycling remains dangerous in our helmet-obsessed safety culture.
The red dots represent white residents and the blue dots represent black residents in this map of metro Detroit. It's easy to see Eight Mile Road, the dividing line between Wayne County, which includes Detroit, and suburban Oakland and Macomb counties to the north. Map: Eric Fischer

Suburban Segregationist Brooks Patterson Breaks Up Detroit’s Hard-Won Transit Coalition

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2018 | No Comments
Representing the region's primarily white northern suburbs, Patterson is blocking a transit measure that would improve job access for black Detroiters.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has prioritized road spending over transit in Baltimore. Now the system is in crisis. Photo: Ft Meade Public Affairs

Baltimore’s Surprise Subway Shutdown: Larry Hogan Passes the Buck

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2018 | No Comments
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.
Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Another Con

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 12, 2018 | No Comments
The White House outline does nothing to reform a half-century of highway-centric federal policy that has left America choking on traffic.
Ken Schwartz was mayor of San Luis Obispo, California, from 1969 to 1979. Photo: Heidi Harmon

Former California Mayor Calls New Bikeway “Urban Rape”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 9, 2018 | No Comments
"No other word would be proper" to describe the bike lane besides "rape," according to the former mayor of San Luis Obispo.
Texas expects traffic deaths to increase substantially by 2022. Graph: Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan

Texas DOT Aims for More People to Get Killed in Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 9, 2018 | No Comments
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.
Ride-hailing trips that start at someone's home are clustered in the center of the Boston region, where transit access is best and traffic is most intense. Map: MAPC

Evidence From Boston That Uber Is Making Traffic Worse

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2018 | No Comments
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.
Spin and Limebike, along with ofo, are the three venture-funded bike-share companies active in Seattle. Photo: SounderBruce/Flickr

Is the Dockless Bike-Share Revolution a Mirage?

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 7, 2018 | No Comments
There are big questions about the venture-funded dockless bike-share model that go deeper than the propriety of where the bikes are parked.
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