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One of the unsung leaders in bike infrastructure in the United State is the unassuming Midwestern city of Indianapolis. The city’s “Cultural Trail,” an eight-mile biking and walking path through the heart of the city, has gained national attention for its thoughtful design and careful integration with the city fabric. Today, young Indy resident Laura […]

Gone are the days when traffic engineers could confidently predict traffic volumes would rise in an upward trajectory into infinity. In America, miles driven per capita has dropped to the levels of the mid-1990s. It should be pretty obvious by now that predicting the future is a lot more complicated than transportation departments pretend it […]

This week’s mayoral elections yielded good news for transit and safe streets in both Houston and Minneapolis. In Boston, meanwhile, the results are less straightforward. Transportation reformers in Minneapolis are generally pleased about the election of City Council member Betsy Hodges (runoff votes are still being counted, but the second-place contender has conceded). Hodges is […]

A big problem with designing cities around cars is that motor vehicles are big and bulky and take up a ton of space. And the more space you give to cars, the greater the pressure to cede even more territory — to park vehicles and transport all the additional people who no longer find it […]

They say if you want to kill someone in America, do it in a car. You’ll never get charged. And it’s mostly true. Lenient laws and a culture of tolerance for traffic violence means that unless you were intoxicated when the crash occurred, the official word is most likely “accidents happen.” Even an investigation into […]

Network blog Systemic Failure ought to write a book about how federal regulations undermine train travel in the U.S. It would be a long one. Today he cites the case of how TSA regulations inhibit California’s large Hispanic population from riding Amtrak. Again, the federal transportation safety apparatus gets in the way of actual safety: Hispanics […]