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Zoning Boards Shouldn’t Make Decisions By Judging People’s Lifestyles 27 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
A development of studio apartments planned for Berkeley, California, is setting off all the usual NIMBY complaints about height and proximity — as well as a barrage of snap judgments. This building i...
Cincinnati Will Reform Its Parking Mandates 26 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Bad parking policy can greatly harm a city. Too much parking makes walking impractical and uncomfortable. It also erodes the tax base, as the map of downtown Detroit we posted last week made painfully...
Major Road Builder Argues for Road-Pricing, Against More Asphalt 23 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
The primary theme of U.S. transportation policy since the mid-20th century hasn’t been accessibility, public health, equality, or even efficiency. Primarily we’ve spent billions of dollars trying frui...
A Road Block for Texas DOT’s Highway Robbery Plan? 22 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
The Texas Department of Transportation loves big highway projects. In fact, right now, it’s pursuing a third outerbelt for Houston that makes the moon landing seem like a minor undertaking. It’s the b...
How Fire Departments Both Perpetuate and Get Victimized By Sprawl 21 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
One of the big ironies of the safe streets movement is that a government agency charged with keeping us safe is quite often a major obstacle to preventing injuries and deaths. Fire departments tend to...
Why Was Madison Left Out of the Midwest Rail Boom? 20 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
Does the state government of Wisconsin, under the leadership of Scott Walker, hate intercity rail or love it? Lately, it’s been difficult to tell. The Hiawatha Line between Milwaukee and Chicago is b...
Message to Cities: Don’t Try to Be the New York Yankees 19 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
Today on the Streetsblog Network, Charles Marohn at Strong Towns writes about the tendency for cities to pin their hopes on splashy new projects. Kind of like how the Yankees always go out and sign an...
Network Roundup: Building Trains Is Hard, Building Parking Is Easy 16 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Here’s a snapshot of what’s happening around the Streetsblog Network today: headaches and heartbreaks on the way to passenger rail, smooth sailing for parking developments: This illustrated rendering...
Should Cyclists Be Treated Like Pedestrians, Motorists — or Cyclists? 15 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
In places where cities accommodate multiple modes of travel, such as the Netherlands, cyclists and their bikes have their own space, just like pedestrians and motorists. This is not nearly as common t...
“Hyperloop”: Not Quite Shovel-Ready 14 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
The “Hyperloop,” a conceptual high-speed transport plan from Tesla founder Elon Musk, received attention yesterday from almost every major news outlet. Elon Musk, free from the bonds of mortal men, i...
