Branden Klayko
How can the next president improve American transportation policy?
Without wading into the spectacle that is the election, Beth Osborne, a former top official at the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) who’s now a vice president at Transportation for America,...
Have you ever pedaled along a real Protected Bike Lane? A bike lane separated from the stress of fast-paced streets filled with speeding motorists that gives cyclists of all ages the security and safety to travel in a way...
How can cities make more efficient use of street space, so more people can get where they want to go?
This graphic from the new NACTO Transit Street Design Guide provides a great visual answer. (Hat tip to Sandy Johnston for plucking it out.) It shows how...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday launched the Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, which has the potential to invest as much as $100 million into rural food and agricultural businesses with high growth potential, says a USDA press...
The Washington Post has created a map that shows how home values changed, by Zip Code, from 2004 to 2015. Based on data from Black Knight Financial Services, the map "shows how the nation’s housing recovery has exacerbated inequality, leaving behind...
On the edge of Butchertown, East Main Street bends to become Story Avenue. On this block, a row of sorry looking shotgun houses and boarded up buildings belie the rejuvenation that has been going on in the neighborhood for years.
While someone speeding...
When you walk into the completed Pho Ba Luu restaurant later this year, you'll notice a fresh combination of old and new architecture. The Vietnamese restaurant, the vision of Stewart Davis and his fiancée Jessica, will occupy a prominent...
About a month ago, Broken Sidewalk returned its headquarters to Louisville—and we're thrilled to be back. While our headquarters has returned, as has long been the case with this publication, there remains a large network of writers and supporters...
It's hard to reduce someone as prolific as Jane Jacobs to a single book. She accomplished so much more than that over her career fighting for better cities—she stopped an elevated highway from crossing Manhattan that would have destroyed...