Angie Schmitt
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Denver Is Your 2017 Parking Madness Champ!
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Denver's monster parking crater is a classic of wasted urban potential: a huge swathe of land close to downtown, served by three light rail stations, and overwhelmed by massive parking lots for sports stadiums that barely get used much of the year.
Enough With the Gondolamania Already
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In American cities, gondolas have mainly served as a distraction from bigger problems facing urban transit systems.
Parking Madness Final Four: Atlanta vs. Denver
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This semi-final pits central areas in two major American cities against each other. Only one will have a shot at everlasting shame in the championship match.
Nashville Is Ready to Embrace Transit
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Nashville planners have put together a $6 billion transit expansion plan that calls for four light rail lines, three bus rapid transit routes, a commuter rail connection, and more. And it looks like a referendum on raising local taxes to pay for the package would fare well, according to a new poll.
Parking Madness: Little Rock vs. Atlanta
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Of all the places that have been marred by surface parking, the saddest might be city blocks served by transit, where walking should reign and driving should not be necessary. We're seeing in this year's Parking Madness tournament that there's an abundance of these places around the United States.
Why Is Transit Ridership Falling?
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Transit ridership took a turn for the worse in 2016. The big question is why.
Reimagining Miami’s Waterfront Speedway as a Street for People
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Miami's Biscayne Boulevard is eight roaring lanes of traffic cutting off downtown from the waterfront. But maybe not for long. In what could be a transformative project, the city is looking to convert this surface speedway into a walkable boulevard.
Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network
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There are now nearly 16 miles of protected bike lanes in Washington, DC.
Win Back Transit Riders By Speeding Up Bus Boarding
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One surefire way for U.S. transit agencies to improve bus service is to streamline the boarding process by enabling riders to get on at any door. In a new report, NACTO makes the case for all-door boarding and looks at how American transit agencies are moving forward on implementation.
Transit Ridership Falling Everywhere — But Not in Cities With Redesigned Bus Networks
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Transit ridership decreased in almost every major American city last year. But there were two notable exceptions -- Seattle and Houston. Those two outliers share one thing in common: In addition to expanding light rail, they're both redesigning their bus networks.
What If State DOTs Listened to Cities Before Starting Urban Projects?
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It's not uncommon for bitter disputes to develop when state DOTs come into urban neighborhoods and start making changes to state-controlled streets. Pennsylvania DOT has a different idea: Rather than just muscle everything through, the agency will incorporate local ideas before engineering and design work gets started.
America Builds Too Many Schools By Highways
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One in 11 U.S. public schools are within 500 feet of a highway, exposing 4.4 million children to elevated levels of pollution, putting kids at elevated risk of developing asthma. But cheap land remains alluring to school districts, and America's system of school siting is not getting better.