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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

A trial run of all-door boarding on the Silver Line reduced the amount of time buses spent at each stop 30 percent. Photo: Institute for Transportation & Development Policy

Boston MBTA Tests Out All-Door Boarding, With Systemwide Implementation Coming By 2020

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 16, 2017 | No Comments
The agency says its next-generation fare payment system will enable all-door boarding on every bus.
If cities don't act decisively to prioritize bus and rail service, more riders will switch to ride-hailing in a vicious cycle of increasing traffic and declining transit quality. Photo: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr

Uber and Lyft Are Cannibalizing Transit in Major American Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 13, 2017 | No Comments
New research from UC Davis shows that cities must strengthen transit in response to the growth of ride-hailing services.
Wisconsin is backing off a $1.1 billion highway widening that civil rights advocates said would exacerbate racial segregation in the region. Image: WisDOT

Meet the Lawyer Taking on Wisconsin’s Highway Lobby — And Winning

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 13, 2017 | No Comments
To combat racial segregation and disparities in public health, attorney Dennis Grzezinski is confronting the state's penchant for road expansion.
Transportation engineering practices have produced too many environments that fail to take public safety into account.

Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not.

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 12, 2017 | No Comments
Bill Schultheiss, a transportation engineer with Toole Design Group, is challenging his profession to uphold its ethical standards.
This graphic from NHTSA tells you how many people were killed in motor vehicle collisions last year, but says very little about the systemic causes of America's abysmal traffic safety record.

America Hasn’t Seen a Spike in Traffic Deaths This Bad in 50 Years

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 11, 2017 | No Comments
America's traffic safety record is going from bad to worse -- and federal transportation officials aren't speaking up about it.
The share of car-free households in America grew after 2006, but by last year those changes had been wiped out. Graph: Sarah Jo Peterson

America’s Car Ownership Rate Higher Now Than Before the Recession

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 10, 2017 | No Comments
After growing for a few years, the share of car-free households in America has dropped below 2006 levels.
A new partnership between the transit agency and the bike-share operator in Pittsburgh will expand access to bike-share for people with a transit farecard. Photo: Better Bike Share via Healthy Bikes

In Pittsburgh, Transit Passes Come With Bike-Share Access at No Extra Charge

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 9, 2017 | No Comments
Unlimited 15-minute bike-share trips with the touch of a transit pass? That's the new deal in Pittsburgh.
Police stopped Patrick Harmon for riding his bike without a rear light. When he attempted to flee, officer Clinton Fox shot him three times in the back. Photo: The Harmon family via the Guardian

Utah Police Shooting Underscores the Added Threat Facing Black People on Bikes

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 6, 2017 | No Comments
Police stopped Patrick Harmon for riding his bike without a rear light. When he attempted to flee, officer Clinton Fox shot him three times in the back.
To reduce the amount of new parking construction, Seattle may let residential buildings share excess parking with people who don't live there. Photo: Lee/Flickr

How Shared Parking Can Reduce Housing Costs and Cut Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 6, 2017 | No Comments
To reduce the amount of parking in new construction, Seattle is looking to make more efficient use of existing parking.
Photo: Ed and Eddy/Flickr
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Congress Poised to Let Autonomous Car Companies Run Wild in Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 6, 2017 | No Comments
Both houses of Congress are crafting regulations that will set the stage for autonomous vehicles, and they're not off to good start.
Wisconsin is backing off a $1.1 billion highway widening that civil rights advocates said would exacerbate racial segregation in the region. Image: WisDOT

Wisconsin Decides It Can Live Without $1.1 Billion Highway Widening After All

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 5, 2017 | No Comments
Wisconsin does not, in fact, possess infinite resources to spend on highways.
Florida DOT has acknowledged that designing urban streets like rural highways was a deadly mistake. Image: FDOT via SSTl

Will Florida’s New Approach to Urban Streets Reduce Its Traffic Carnage?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 4, 2017 | No Comments
Florida DOT has formalized the idea that in cities and town centers, roads should be designed differently than in rural places.
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