Nashville Mayor Signs Executive Order
Mayor Karl Dean stepped up Nashville’s efforts to make their streets safe and comfortable for all users yesterday, issuing an Executive Order to formalize a Complete Streets approach in the city.
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Happy International Walk to School Day!
Today, thousands of communities across the country are celebrating the 14th annual International Walk to School Day, highlighting the need for safe places for children to walk and bicycle in their communities.
Bill Lind Interview on Left Ahead Podcast
William Lind, the Director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation, discusses the benefits of transit from a conservative perspective and addresses ways that liberals can engage conservatives in support of transit. Left Ahead produces podcast webisodes for bloggers in Massachusetts.
America's Top Transportation Project? Make It a Complete Street.
If you’ve been to our website a few times, you’re already familiar with US Route 62 through Hamburg, New York: a photo of its new roundabouts graces the top of our website on a rotating basis. Now you can help this street win the People’s Choice Award.
Maintaining Diversity in America’s Transit-Rich Neighborhoods: Tools for Equitable Transit-Rich Neighborhoods
This study by Northeastern University confirms that, “transit investment frequently changes the surrounding neighborhood. While patterns of neighborhood change vary, the most predominant pattern is one in which housing becomes more expensive, neighborhood residents become wealthier and vehicle ownership becomes more common.” The report proposes policy tools that could be used to shape equitable neighborhood change in both old and new transit-rich neighborhoods.
Equity Caucus at Transportation for America Launches in Washington, DC
Advocates from the NAACP, Change to Win, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 60 other prominent organizations came together in Washington, DC last night to launch the Equity Caucus at Transportation for America. The Caucus consists of an incredibly wide array of leaders working together to make transportation in the United States more equitable, including many organizations – such as Good Jobs First and the Center for Working Families – that work primarily on issues other than transportation. As co-chair of the Transportation for America campaign, Smart Growth America is proud to be part of such a diverse group of organizations working to bring fair access to transportation choices to all people.
Smart Growth America Applauds National Transportation Equity Coalition
As co-chair of the Transportation for America campaign, Smart Growth America is proud to help launch the nation’s leading civil rights, community development, racial justice, economic justice, faith-based, health, housing, labor, environmental justice, tribal, and transportation organizations to create the Equity Caucus at Transportation for America. Transportation is a crucial part of the path to … Continued
National traffic congestion report gets daily driving backwards
A new report out today from CEOs for Cities criticizes the Travel Time Index, an annual scoring of metropolitan areas and their congestion. The Index for each urban area in the US is released annually as part of the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report and heavily influences decision-makers looking for solutions to traffic congestion. … Continued
Rep. LaTourette Signs on to Complete Streets Act of 2009
Representative Steve LaTourette [OH-14] joined the sixty existing co-sponsors of the Complete Streets Act of 2009 late last week, making the bill bipartisan in the House.
A Deluge of Policies
In just the last nine months, 45 communities have adopted Complete Streets policies – just two shy of the record number of policies adopted in all of 2009. The sheer number of localities realizing the benefits of Complete Streets is inspiring, but it’s becoming more difficult to track. Help out by sharing your successes with us!