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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

Photo: IIHS

Walking and Biking are Hurt by Lack of National Leadership: Report

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 11, 2019 | No Comments
Biking and walking have leveled off and are becoming more dangerous. The federal government and states aren't doing enough.
Photo: The Urbanist

Minneapolis and Seattle Have Achieved the Holy Grail for Sustainable Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2019 | No Comments
The number of driving miles declined in both cities even as population (and Uber!) has grown quickly.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing a Green New Deal. Photo: Kerri Evelyn Harris/Flickr/CC

‘Green New Deal’ To Seek Transport Overhaul

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 7, 2019 | No Comments
The legislation is still pretty vague but it does include some somewhat disappointing omissions.
Photo: Walk Bike Nashville

Nashville Bill Would Lower Residential Speed Limits

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 6, 2019 | No Comments
The county and its main city will reduce speeds to 25 mph in neighborhoods, if lawmakers approve a new safety measure.
Photo: Michael Smith

Seattle Tosses Out the Rulebook to Protect Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 5, 2019 | No Comments
The engineering rules say you can't add a signalized crosswalk unless 93 pedestrians are crossing there per hour. Seattle's trying something different.
Photo: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr

All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 5, 2019 | No Comments
More traffic, less transit trips, more traffic deaths, greater social stratification: A comprehensive list. (It's long.)
Photo: LAbreform

Utah Moving Forward on ‘Idaho Stop’ for Cyclists

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2019 | No Comments
Cyclists could treat stop signs and red lights as yields under a bill recently passed out of committee with bipartisan support in the Utah House.
Providence's "City Walk" on-street biking and walking trails are one of the projects targeted for cuts by Rhode Island DOT. Photo: City of Providence

Rhode Island Looting Biking and Walking Funds for Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 31, 2019 | No Comments
Almost one dozen biking and walking projects across the state of Rhode Island are in jeopardy after a state agency decided to transfer $27 million in federal money dedicated to active transportation to highways and administrative expenses over the next 10 years.
Photo: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr

Congestion Pricing, Often Attacked as Inequitable, Is Actually the Cure for Inequitable Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 30, 2019 | No Comments
The best way to ensure that congestion pricing doesn't hurt the poor is to make sure revenues from new tolls support better transit service — not just build more highways.
Photo: Elvert Barnes/Flickr/CC

New House Transportation Chair: ‘We Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel’

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 29, 2019 | No Comments
Peter Defazio, the new chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, talks bikes, pedestrians and transit — and getting us off fossil fuel.
photo: Elvert Barnes

Baltimore May Imprison E-Scooter Speeders

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2019 | No Comments
Legislation being considered by the City Council would give police the option of jailing e-scooter riders for up to 30 days for minor infractions.
E-scooters have potential to transform cities. Photo: Nathan Rupert/Flickr

New Study of E-Scooter Injuries Raises More Questions than it Answers

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2019 | No Comments
The Journal of the American Medical Association is pushing for helmets, but the actual data is still open to interpretation.
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