Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Transportation for America's website introduces its important new report, Dangerous by Design, with an attention-grabbing statistic: "In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
"Sustainable communities" was the phrase of the day at the annual symposium of the American Institute of Certified Planners, held last week at the National Building Museum. Federal officials from the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Streetfilms has come through again with a great (if unsettling) 2-minute video on the hazards of crossing city streets. It was shot in New York, but it could have been made in any number of places where car-pedestrian interactions are...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Big-time kudos to Bike Pittsburgh for combing through new census data to extract and rank the commuting habits of the 60 largest US cities. The data chart on the organization's website, naturally, opens up with the ranking of bicycle commuting: ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
People concerned with smart, sustainable development invariably end up talking about Portland (Oregon) or examples therein. This is because it has probably done more to apply the principles that we care about than any other region in the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Almost completely dormant for practically a century - with much of their once-rolling stock suffering the indignity of conversion to cheesy "ye olde" city tour buses - streetcars are now making a major comeback across the country. And they are poised to become a...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
This comes via John Massengale, who says it was taken at the corner of 63rd St. and Park Ave. in New York. The red car is a vintage Fiat CinqueCento (500): Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Our nation's metro regions need stronger tools to address transportation and land use issues. I haven't turned to the issue of metropolitan regionalism in a while (last time was in April), but a new column by Bill Hudnut on Citiwire...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
There's a fascinating (if brief) interview with Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, on the PBS "Blueprint America" website. Oberstar and his committee will play a major role in the upcoming overhaul of federal...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Will more sports teams be taking the train to their next event instead of flying? I'm writing this on my laptop just minutes after watching the Tour de France finish another year in its storied history,...continued→
