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Who are bike improvements for? That can be a contentious question in cities where the implementation of bike infrastructure is associated with affluent white people. But as the above chart from Michael Andersen at People for Bikes shows, lower-income Americans are actually more likely than wealthy people to use a bike to get to work: …bikes […]

It’s one step forward, two steps back for transit and livability in the Washington region. Today, Greater Greater Washington reports that the highway lobby in Virginia is seeking to wrest control over transportation funding from the northern part of the state in order to shift transit and walkability spending to road projects. Meanwhile, it’s a […]

Network blog Keep Kids Alive, Drive 25 is promoting a campaign they call “driven by love.” The idea is that driving carefully — remaining focused and sober, driving an appropriate speed — is a loving way to drive. It’s a powerful concept, and I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it articulated quite this way: Imagine […]

Lakewood, Ohio, population 51,000, doesn’t have any school buses. It never has. Because of the way its schools were designed and sited, this inner-ring Cleveland suburb doesn’t need buses — every child in the district lives less than two miles from their classroom, and most are within one mile. Lakewood calls itself a “walking school […]

Three-foot passing laws are well on their way to becoming mainstream. Bike advocates in cities and states around the country have won legal protections like this from California to Cleveland Heights. One of the common criticisms of the laws is that they are hard to enforce. But Austin, Texas, is showing the way. Last year […]

There’s a big development project happening in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood on the site of a former hospital. The developer has proposed some senior housing, some retail and a luxury housing complex — along with 194 parking spaces to go along with an existing 850-space garage nearby. Some of the typical concerns about traffic were […]