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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

Toronto resident Dave Meslin and his neighbors used chalk and leaves to show how a local intersection would be right-sized. Photo: Dave Meslin/Twitter

Toronto Neighbors Calm Street Using Only Leaves and Chalk

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 1, 2017 | No Comments
The "leafy neckdown" revealed 2,000 square feet of excess asphalt.
Protesters formed a human chain to protect the bike lane where a truck driver struck and killed Emily Fredricks. Photo: Rebuilding the Rust Belt

Philadelphia Cyclists Demand Safer Bike Lanes — Now

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 30, 2017 | No Comments
About 75 demonstrators took to the streets yesterday after a garbage truck driver struck and killed 24-year-old Emily Fredricks
Danica Roem made history with her general election win in Virginia this month. And transportation policy was a key element of her campaign. Photo: Ted Eytan/Flickr

Evaluating Danica Roem’s Transportation Platform

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 30, 2017 | No Comments
Danica Roem's political achievement was inspiring and toppled a notorious bigot. But now that she's in office, is her traffic prescription any good? 
Photo: Garry Knight/Flickr

To Reduce Pollution, London Will Outlaw Parking Construction

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 28, 2017 | No Comments
Mayor Sadiq Khan says the city will ban new parking spaces in home and office developments in large parts of the city
On Albuquerque's Central Avenue, buses can now run in a center-running transitway with level boarding at stations. Photo: Michael Kodransky

Albuquerque’s Ground-Breaking BRT Project Makes Its Maiden Voyage on Route 66

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 28, 2017 | No Comments
The design of Albuquerque's "ART" transitway rates higher than any other American bus rapid transit project.
New apartments in northwest Atlanta have a walkable footprint but are disconnected from transit. Photo: Darin Givens

Who’s to Blame for Drive-to-Urbanism?

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 27, 2017 | No Comments
Developments can have the trappings of a walkable place but still be very difficult to access without a car.
Georgia DOT thinks this $800 million highway spaghetti is the answer to congestion, and the local newspaper is unskeptical. Image: Georgia DOT

The Problem With Lazy Local Coverage of Highways and Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 22, 2017 | No Comments
When there's a highway project, local papers reprint the press release. When there's a transit project, they get quotes from cranks.
Motor vehicle parking usually isn't the best use of scarce curb space in crowded cities. Graphic: NACTO

Bus Lanes Are the New Parking Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 22, 2017 | No Comments
Reserving curb space for people to park cars right next to their destination is no way to manage city streets.
People of color make up a disproportionate share of "missing workers." But transit investment could help, according to a new report. Demos

Transit Investment Can Help Close the Racial Employment Gap

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 21, 2017 | No Comments
By both improving access to jobs and creating new jobs, transit investment can connect people of color to employment.
New restrictions on car access have shave several minutes off streetcar trips along Toronto's King Street. Photos: Jennifer Keesmaat

Toronto Shows How Easy It Is to Speed Up Surface Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 20, 2017 | No Comments
It only cost Toronto $1.5 million to clear cars off King Street and dramatically sped up streetcar trips for tens of thousands of people.
Jacksonville, Florida has some of the nation's most dangerous roads for pedestrians. The city's police have cynically exploited a genuine public safety threat to use "jaywalking" as a pretext to stop and search black residents. Image: Florida Times-Union

Jacksonville’s “Jaywalking” Enforcement Is Very, Very Racist

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 17, 2017 | No Comments
A bombshell new report from ProPublica and the Florida Times-Union examines Jacksonville's profoundly broken and racially biased pedestrian enforcement.
There are five schools within a mile of this location in Albuquerque. Photo: Better Burque

The People Left Behind By Car-Centric Planning

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 17, 2017 | No Comments
A kid walking to school is an afterthought, or worse, an inconvenience in a system that aspires to scientific efficiency in moving cars.
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