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In response to a previous post about American city grids, commenter Josh Mahar made the following point, which I'd like to take a moment to address...  Read On 

A new study commissioned by the city finds that air quality in Times Square has notably improved since the 2009 installation of pedestrian plazas on Broadway. Street-level readings taken by the New York City Community Air Survey, a city-wide air quality monitoring program created as part of PlaNYC, show that "concentrations of traffic-related pollutants were substantially lower than measurements from the year before and were less than in other midtown locations... Read On 

There is a National Highway System in the US, which identifies priority roads for federal investment. The NHS includes approximately 160,000 miles of roadway- principally the interstate highway system-as well as other roads that are important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility. ... Read On 

Cascadia Times now has their 9-part examination of the Columbia River Crossing online... Read On 

A world expert on road diets, Dan Burden begins this chapter of Moving Beyond the Automobile saying, "a road diet is anytime you take any lane out of a road." Of course the knee-jerk reaction is likely to be along the lines of, "How can removing lanes improve my neighborhood and not cause traffic backups?" But in nearly every case, the opposite is true... Read On 

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is an increasingly popular urban form. Based on a survey of residents of TOD projects in areas served by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), Fort Worth, Texas, and Capital Metro (Austin) rail transit, moving into TOD decreases vehicle miles of travel (VMT) by an average of 15 percent, or about 3,500 miles per year, which impacts the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) motor fuel tax revenues... Read On 

For years, state DOTs have exploited a loophole of federal government policy that allowed them to build massive, publicly funded projects without accommodating non-motorized users as long as they could show that "due consideration" had been given to bicyclists and pedestrians... Read On 

Today's national average gas price is $3.77 for regular, which means we'll spend about $1.428 billion dollars on gasoline today. But what if we decided not to?... Read On