Sarah Goodyear
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Introducing the Streetsblog Network
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We’ve just launched our shiny new transportation-policy blog network, and we’re pretty darn excited. You can find out why by clicking here. Streetsblog Network (usa.streetsblog.org) brings together more than 100 blogs from 31 states — and counting. Its purpose is twofold: to create a place where people who blog on smart growth, livable streets and […]
Report: Good Transit and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand
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MARTA train in Atlanta, Georgia, where officials are studying the link between transit and job growth. How could federal job creation programs be greener? Making access to public transit a priority would be one way. A report called "Uncle Sam’s Rusty Toolkit," released today by Good Jobs First, details the group’s finding that federal job-creation […]
Obama Names Transportation Team
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The Obama-Biden transition team today unveiled its "Agency Review Teams" — the people charged with "a thorough review of key departments, agencies and commissions of the United States government, as well as the White House, to provide the President-elect, Vice President-elect, and key advisors with information needed to make strategic policy, budgetary, and personnel decisions […]
Having a Kid Doesn’t Mean Having a Car
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Bus Chick’s "Chicklet" is happy to take public transit. One of our favorite recent discoveries on the national transpo blogging scene is Carla Saulter, a third-generation Seattleite who documents her transit-going life in a blog called Bus Chick for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A lot of people who do without cars before they become parents think […]
The Case for Active Transportation, by the Numbers
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Thanks to commenter Stephen for prodding us to post on the new report from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, "Active Transportation for America" (download the PDF here). What makes the report notable are the numbers it contains. It’s jam-packed with quantifiable benefits that would result from increased investment in infrastructure that encourages and supports pedestrians and cyclists. […]
Rubbing Elbows on a Crowded Bus in Alaska
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It may look desolate, but business is picking up at the Fairbanks bus depot. All around the country, local transit systems are seeing spikes in ridership caused by rising fuel prices, and oftentimes straining under the increased demand. As part of our participation in Transportation for America‘s Build for America campaign, we’ve been looking around […]
Transportation for America Launches Legislative Campaign
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Today marks the start of Transportation for America‘s "Build for America" campaign, which will work to influence the transportation funding legislation that goes before the next Congress in 2009. (You’ll be hearing a lot more about it here in the coming months; we have received a grant from the T4America campaign to kick-start the development […]
Bike Commuters Clean Up and Lock Up in Brisbane, Australia
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From the Australian Bicycling Council comes word of a new amenity for bicycling commuters In Brisbane, Australia. Called cycle2city, it provides secure weekday parking and showers for up to 420 members, who will pay between $5 and $7 a day for the privilege of using the facility (that and other figures quoted here are Australian […]
¡Arriba Sevilla!
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I was in Seville last week for the first time since February 2007, and in the intervening year there’s been something of a transportation revolution in the city. It’s most visibly evident in the Sevici bike-share bikes (bicis in Spanish) that are everywhere. The system launched in April 2007, and ultimately there will be 250 […]