Op-Ed: Prohibit Right Turns on Red Lights
According to Josh Cohen, "if cities truly cared about pedestrians, they would outright ban [right turns on red]." Cohen writes from experience in Seattle, where the Seattle Department of Transportation...
View ArticleGuide to Improved Street Designs: Pay Attention to Precedent
Jeff Speck writes for CityLab about the next front in the ongoing contest to control the design of streets. On one side are cars and traffic engineers, but the latter of those two have ceded ground in...
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Mystery
A blog post exploring why Los Angeles is more car-dependent than some less dense cities.
View ArticleThe Car-Centric Future of Planning Data
Joe Cortright cautions against the dangers in over-estimating the value of data in planning decisions.Publication Date: Tue, 08/16/2016
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Portland Takes Another Step Toward Multi-Modalism
Jonathan Maus reports that the Portland City Council "unanimously passed an ordinance (PDF) allowing PBOT to use a methodology that uses 'person trips'– meaning trips made not just by people in cars...
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Draft District Plan Released in Philadelphia's Far Northeast
Jake Blumgart reports on the new draft district plan for the Far Northeast in Philadelphia.Publication Date: Tue, 02/21/2017
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Shreveport Planning Committee Approves New Highway Through Historically Black...
Lex Talamo reports: "Local planners and politicians on Friday chose a route through Shreveport's Allendale neighborhood as their favored route for a new I-49 connector, prompting an angry response from...
View ArticleOp-Ed: 'Public Mood' Has Turned Against Cars in Cities
An op-ed in The New York Times by Justin Gillis and Hal Harvey posits that two recent events in transportation planning demonstrated that "[b]oth the public and a few of our bolder political leaders...
View ArticleThe Case for Ending Legal Right Turns on Red Lights
Angie Schmitt lays out the case for ending the right turn on a red light that's legal at almost every intersection in just about every community across the United States—except new York...
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Canadian Neighborhood Prohibits Kids From Playing Outside
"A neighbourhood in western Canada has been accused of declaring a “war on fun” after it passed a bylaw banning all outside play from the street, prohibiting children from activities such as chalk...
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Uber and Lyft Make 11,000 Trips a Week Without Leaving UCLA's Campus
"UCLA students call about 11,000 Uber and Lyft rides that never leave campus every week," reports Manya Kidambi. The trip choice of the students "[raise] concerns about the environmental impact of...
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Dead on Arrival: Vision Zero Loses at the Phoenix City Council
"The Phoenix City Council for the first time ever discussed setting a goal to reduce pedestrian deaths — weeks after an Arizona Republic report that detailed the Publication Date: Tue, 04/23/2019
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Study Documents the Public Health Effects of Long School Commutes
"Long commutes to school have negative impacts on children’s well-being, especially on sleep and exercise," writes Richard Florida, broadcasting news about a new study by researchers Publication Date:...
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Seattle Leads the Nation in Reducing Car Ownership
"When it comes to car ownership, Seattle has finally turned a corner," according to an article by Gene Balk.Publication Date: Sat, 11/02/2019
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Liberating Cities from Cars
Examining models of progress toward restrictions on the use and storage of automobiles from urban areas around the world.
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