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What happens when transportation planners try to accommodate cyclist traffic? If you’re in Groningen, the Netherlands, where over half of all trips are made by bike, you get complaints from business owners — who don’t want cyclists diverted from their street. David Hembrow of A View From the Cycle Path says students are flooding the Zonnelaan bike path […]

While transit groups have been campaigning for, and winning, ballot measures for years, walking and biking advocacy groups are newer to the ballot referendum game. But as demand for safer streets grows in cities around the country, more and more active transportation groups are seeking voter support for special funding measures. Living Streets Alliance in […]

It’s Park(ing) Day around the world — an international demonstration of the potential to repurpose the space given over to cars in our cities. Right now in more than 160 cities in 35 countries, people are setting up small parks in what, for one day, will turn unremarkable 9-by-18-foot asphalt patches into community gathering spaces. […]

We know that sedentary behavior is a big contributor to the childhood obesity epidemic in America. And the fact that few children walk to school anymore — only 13 percent in 2009 compared to more than 50 percent in their parents’ generation — is part of the problem. This has a lot to do with […]

Detroit’s streets are changing, and it’s a beautiful thing to witness. Despite its recent bankruptcy, thanks to the help of philanthropic institutions in the area, the Motor City is moving to repair some of the damage that’s been done by decades of promoting the speed of cars over the health of neighborhoods. That includes new […]

St. Louis is one of the rare, lucky Midwestern cities with light rail. The city seeded its Metrolink system in the 1990s and underwent a pretty large expansion in the early 2000s. It now has 37 stations. Unfortunately, a weak local real estate market has hindered growth near stations, and ridership hasn’t reached its potential. […]