Angie Schmitt

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

The Chariot vans running around Brooklyn streets are mostly empty. Photo: Ford

The Story of “Micro Transit” Is Consistent, Dismal Failure

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 26, 2018 | No Comments

Real world experience has proven that diverting resources to "micro transit" is not a recipe to improve transit or increase ridership.

Widening I-270 in Montgomery County may require the demolition of hundreds of homes, according to a 2009 study. Image: Montgomery County

Larry Hogan’s Highway Building Binge Threatens to Force Hundreds of People From Their Homes

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 22, 2018 | No Comments

Uprooting economically vulnerable people to make room for roads isn't a relic of the 1960s -- it's alive and well in Maryland in 2018.

New development at Denver RTD's Alameda Station. Photo: Denver Infill

Why Affordable Housing Is So Important for Development Near Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 20, 2018 | No Comments

What happens when you build housing around transit, but it's not affordable to the people who ride transit the most?

Traffic signals that maximize crossing time for pedestrians remain the exception, not the rule, in American cities. Photo: District DOT

Making Traffic Signals Fair for Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 19, 2018 | No Comments

Traffic engineering conventions deprive people on foot of sufficient time to cross the street. We should change that.

A transportation project as superficial as the Kendall Highway deserves the mockery dished out by Transit Alliance Miami on its sexy highway site.

Miami’s Mindless Highway Addiction Gets the Mockery It Deserves

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 18, 2018 | No Comments

A 15-mile highway extension would bring sprawl to the edge of the Everglades and drain resources that could be used for transit.

Boston's Washington Street bus/bike lane pilot. Photo: LivableStreets Alliance

Boston Makes Its Bus Lane Experiment Permanent

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 8, 2018 | No Comments

It doesn’t take much money to make riding the bus a lot more convenient. With little more than orange cones, Boston set up a bus lane on one of its most important but congested bus corridors — and it worked wonders. At first, the city let the one-month bus lane experiment on Washington Street expire, frustrating […]