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In Dallas, You Can Get a “Sustainability” Grant to Widen a Road

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 5, 2014 | No Comments

Some folks on Twitter have been having a laugh about these PowerPoint slides from the North Central Texas Council of Governments. But it’s more sad than funny. The slides outline what kinds of projects are eligible for the Dallas region’s Sustainable Development Funds, according to local planner Patrick Kennedy. More than $43 million was awarded […]

Why Do African Americans Tend to Bike Less?

By Michael Andersen | Jul 29, 2014 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. It took a week in Copenhagen for Albus Brooks to start thinking seriously about bicycling. The Denver City Council member, 35, had never owned a bike. By the time he headed home […]

FHWA to Engineers: Go Ahead and Use City-Friendly Street Designs

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 28, 2014 | No Comments

NACTO’s Urban Street Design Guide includes engineering guidance for transit boulevards. Image: NACTO The heavyweights of American transportation engineering continue to warm up to design guides that prioritize walking, biking, and transit on city streets. On Friday, the Federal Highway Administration made clear that it endorses the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Street […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Square Footage

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 23, 2014 | No Comments

Welcome to Episode 29 of the Talking Headways podcast. In it, we evaluate the potential of Boston’s attempt to “gentrification-proof” the Fairmount Line, building affordable housing to keep transit from displacing people with low incomes. Too often, the allure of transit raises rents, bringing in a new demographic of people who can pay them — […]

Study: People Living Near Biking and Walking Paths Get More Exercise

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 22, 2014 | No Comments

People who live near safe, high-quality biking and walking infrastructure tend to get more exercise than people who don’t, according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers surveyed randomly selected adults before and after new bike/ped infrastructure was built in three communities in the U.K. Two of the […]

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