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.

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The cost of driving solo on the high-demand stretch of I-66 inside the Beltway. Photo: Salesgrincity/Twitter

The Lesson of $40 Highway Tolls in Virginia

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 6, 2017 | No Comments

It's one of the few cases where solo drivers have to confront the full cost of their trips.

Using low-cost materials like this concrete divider, Toronto set up new streetcar stops on the far side of intersections on King Street, enabling safer boarding and cutting down on time stopped at red lights. Photo: Human Transit

How Toronto Put Transit Riders First on King Street

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2017 | No Comments

By deflecting private car traffic away from King Street, Toronto opened up new possibilities for faster, safer transit design.

GOP Tax Cuts Threaten Funding for Transit, Biking, and Walking

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 4, 2017 | No Comments

Congress is on track to trigger spending austerity that will cut programs like New Starts and TIGER.

Toronto resident Dave Meslin and his neighbors used chalk and leaves to show how a local intersection would be right-sized. Photo: Dave Meslin/Twitter

Toronto Neighbors Calm Street Using Only Leaves and Chalk

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 1, 2017 | No Comments

The "leafy neckdown" revealed 2,000 square feet of excess asphalt.

Protesters formed a human chain to protect the bike lane where a truck driver struck and killed Emily Fredricks. Photo: Rebuilding the Rust Belt

Philadelphia Cyclists Demand Safer Bike Lanes — Now

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 30, 2017 | No Comments

About 75 demonstrators took to the streets yesterday after a garbage truck driver struck and killed 24-year-old Emily Fredricks.

ART buses operate in a center-running transitway with level boarding at stations. Photo: Michael Kodransky

Albuquerque’s Ground-Breaking BRT Project Makes Its Maiden Voyage on Route 66

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 28, 2017 | No Comments

The design of Albuquerque's "ART" transitway rates higher than any other American bus rapid transit project.

New apartments in northwest Atlanta have a walkable footprint but are disconnected from transit. Photo: Darin Givens

Who’s to Blame for Drive-to-Urbanism?

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 27, 2017 | No Comments

Developments can have the trappings of a walkable place but still be very difficult to access without a car.

Georgia DOT thinks this $800 million highway spaghetti is the answer to congestion, and the local newspaper is unskeptical. Image: Georgia DOT

The Problem With Lazy Local Coverage of Highways and Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 22, 2017 | No Comments

When there's a highway project, local papers reprint the press release. When there's a transit project, they get quotes from cranks.

People of color make up a disproportionate share of "missing workers." But transit investment could help, according to a new report. Demos

Transit Investment Can Help Close the Racial Employment Gap

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 20, 2017 | No Comments

By both improving access to jobs and creating new jobs, transit investment can connect people of color to employment.

There are five schools within a mile of this location in Albuquerque. Photo: Better Burque

The People Left Behind By Car-Centric Planning

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 16, 2017 | No Comments

A kid walking to school is an afterthought, or worse, an inconvenience in a system that aspires to scientific efficiency in moving cars.

In Portland, there's a lot of overlap between areas where bus ridership is falling and home values are increasing. Map: TriMet/TransitCenter

Rising Rents Lead to Falling Bus Ridership in Portland

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 15, 2017 | No Comments

TriMet says bus ridership is falling the most in areas where lower-income residents are getting displaced.

Can tax incentives help fill in Spokane's parking craters? Photo: Google Maps

Spokane May Give Builders a Push to Fix Downtown Parking Craters

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 14, 2017 | No Comments

City leaders have proposed a tax break for new construction on downtown surface parking lots.

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