In Illinois, as elsewhere around the country, more people are riding transit — and, as elsewhere, transit funding is being threatened because of state money problems. Meanwhile, reports The Transport Politic, road and bridge projects are going ahead as planned: Next stop for transit in Illinois: funding delays? Photo by John Picken via Flickr. Evidently, […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we check in again with John Michlig, who writes the blog Sprawled Out from Franklin, Wisconsin. Michlig has a blow-by-blow account of his often frustrating attempt to raise the issue of transit-oriented development at a meeting of the Economic Development Committee of his city: The status quo in Franklin, Wisconsin. […]

Big thanks this morning to Streetsblog Network member Trains for America, which links to a fascinating essay from the Witherspoon Institute on why social conservatives should support public transit and walkable communities. Here’s a taste of the Witherspoon piece: Looking for real family values? You’ll find them in walkable communities. Photo by renee @ FIMBY […]

Today’s featured post from the Streetsblog Network comes from member blog Greater Greater Washington. David Alpert has identified an all-too-common strain of a problem familiar to our readers, Entitled Driver Syndrome. A particularly dangerous variant of this common affliction, writes Alpert, is Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome, or EDJS: Photo by PDXdj. This week, epidemiologists discovered […]

OK, so we still really don’t like the name of the DOT Secretary’s blog, The Fast Lane. (Not to mention the design — could someone do something about those graphics, please?) But more and more, we like what we’re reading there. Like yesterday’s post, titled "Bicycling Is an Important Factor in Less Carbon-Intensive Commuting," in […]

If you’re interested in transportation policy (and we know you are!) it can sometimes seem as if all the problems plaguing America have their root there. Today, we have a reminder from Streetsblog Network member Cap’n Transit that not even transportation can cure all ills. But we also have some very hopeful news from columnist […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we hear about the possible misuse of stimulus funds for the widening of the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike in New Jersey. Network member blog Mobilizing the Region, the voice of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, reports that the TSTC has sent a letter to Gov. John Corzine about […]

Today Streetsblog Network member blog Hub and Spokes picks up on an interesting story from the LA Times about how falling real estate values could mean an opportunity to develop more public spaces: An abandoned apartment complex in Tampa, Florida, might become a park instead of luxury condos. Photo by Martha Rial/St. Petersburg Times. With […]

These days good news can be hard to come by, which is why Kaid Benfield’s most recent post on NRDC Switchboard caught our eye. It’s about the Old North neighborhood of St. Louis, and how revitalization efforts there have taken off: A former kindergarten in the Old North neighborhood of St. Louis that’s being renovated […]

America has a fat problem. You knew that, right? But it’s not just the people who are fat. It’s the roads. That’s the subject of a very insightful post from Streetsblog Network member Tom Vanderbilt, author of the book Traffic and keeper of the blog How We Drive. He makes the connection between the two […]