Angie Schmitt
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Old Places Built for Driving Are Failing New Residents Who Don’t Own Cars
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Langley Park in Prince George’s County, outside Washington, D.C., took on its current form when World War II vets moved there in large numbers, aspiring to the suburban lifestyle: a single-family house with a yard.
Trump’s Pick for U.S. DOT Is GOP Insider Elaine Chao
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Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao to serve as transportation secretary in his administration, according to Politico. Chao was secretary of labor under George W. Bush and is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
4 Ways Trump’s Transportation Plan Is Ripe for Corruption
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Donald Trump’s opaque personal finances and business entanglements around the globe raise the possibility of unprecedented corruption for a United States president.
Don’t Forget to Expose Your City’s Parking Failures This Black Friday
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It’s that time of year again — time to show how much space we waste on commercial parking!
Protected Bike Lanes Are Sprouting Up in Walmart Country
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Can protected bike lanes get people biking for transportation in northwest Arkansas?
Advocates of Color are Elevating a Different Perspective on Safe Streets
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Last week, advocates convened in Atlanta for the Untokening, a gathering for people who’ve felt isolated or tokenized within the safe streets movement, and an opportunity to put their perspectives front and center. Stefani Cox, who attended, posted this report on the Better Bike Share Blog: According to one attendee, about two-thirds of the Untokening participants were people of color, and […]
AZ Rep Ruben Gallego to Dems: Don’t Enable Trump’s Infrastructure Surge
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Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi may be ready to bend over backward to work with Donald Trump on “infrastructure,” but you can count Arizona Representative Ruben Gallego out.
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi Are Falling for Infrastructure Propaganda
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We’re going to see a lot of stories about Donald Trump and infrastructure in the next few months, and this reporting will be heavily influenced by a message that has been honed and perfected by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It will be important to see through these arguments and view the Trump infrastructure plan with clear eyes. Already, leading Congressional Democrats […]
Architects Reject AIA’s Call to “Work With” Trump
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Architects around the country are speaking out against the American Institute of Architects after the professional organization made a post-election statement pledging to work with Trump and support his infrastructure agenda.
Democrats Who Embrace the Trump Infrastructure Plan Are Suckers
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As painful as it is to deal with the reality of a Donald Trump presidency, if you think highways and sprawl are a terrible mistake, the time to mobilize is now.
Senator Chuck Schumer reportedly sees infrastructure as an area of collaboration with the Trump administration. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
One of the first things [...]
Transit Vote 2016: What’s at Stake on Local Ballots and How to Track Results
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$200 billion in local transit funding is at stake in these elections. Map: CTFE
With federal transportation policy stuck in DC gridlock, more cities and regions are taking it upon themselves to shape the future of their transit systems. Today there are 78 local ballot measures that will affect funding for transportation in some way, with $200 billion in transit [...]
How the Accommodations We Make for Cars Impose Huge Costs on Cities
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Drive-thrus and parking lots are bad news for a city’s tax base. Image via Streets.mn
Wide highways, big parking lots, dangerous intersections designed for speed — there are a lot of downsides to all this car-centric infrastructure, including the way it saps the fiscal health of cities.
Bill Lindeke at Network blog Streets.mn lists seven, from the erosion of the local tax [...]