Recent Blog Posts

• Streets for People / Our Top 7 Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Articles of 2021 July 24, 2021
• Streets for People / With the Duval Street Revitalization Plan Way Behind Schedule, Here’s 3 Quick Wins for Pedestrianizing Duval Street Now July 16, 2021
• Streets for People / Limiting Large Cruise Ships Gives Us an Opportunity to Make Duval Street & Historic Downtown More Local Focused, Again July 9, 2021
• Streets for People / Mayor Bravely Puts Onus on Commission to Do Heavy Lifting on Better Bike, Walk and Transit. Will They Come Through? July 2, 2021
• Streets for People / Monorail, Monorail, Monorail or Just Say No to Privatizing Key West Parking June 25, 2021
• Streets for People / New City Manager Will Be Good for Bike, Walk, Transit and for Key West June 18, 2021
• Streets for People / PeopleForBikes Ranks Key West 39th Best City for Bicycling June 11, 2021
• Streets for People / First and Bertha Streets Corridor Road Improvements Are Another Missed Opportunity to Make Bicycling Safer and Easier June 4, 2021
• Streets for People / Want Sidewalk Cafés and Other Amenities? We Need to Take Some Space from Cars May 28, 2021
• Streets for People / In Quest to Improve Crosstown Greenway, City Prepares to Construct New Bike Trail Segment May 21, 2021
• Streets for People / How Better Transit and Bicycle Facilities Can Help Address Affordable Housing May 14, 2021
• Streets for People / City Commission Tries to Have Its Cake and Eat It Too on S. Roosevelt Blvd. – Perhaps Dooming a Safer Project May 7, 2021
• Streets for People / What’s Old is New Again – Two New Bike Trails Take Us Back in Time to a Simpler Key West April 30, 2021
• Streets for People / Do Key West Commercial Areas Need Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)? – Part 2: What BIDS in Key West Might Look Like April 23, 2021
• Streets for People / Do Key West Commercial Areas Need Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)? – Part 1: What’s A BID? April 16, 2021
• Streets for People / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – A Dozen Marketing Things KW Transit Can Do to Increase Ridership April 9, 2021
• Streets for People / The Sorry State of Key West Bus Stops – We Just Don’t Care April 2, 2021
• Streets for People / It’s Time to Reconsider a Road Diet on S. Roosevelt and Make the Promenade and Road Safer March 26, 2021
• Streets for People / Getting the Parking Right Leads to Streets for People – Part 2: Battling Our Inner George Costanza – Ten Things We Can Do in Downtown Key West to Get the Parking Right March 19, 2021
• Streets for People / Getting the Parking Right Leads to Streets for People – Part 1: Nobody Goes there Anymore. It’s Too Crowded – Six Reasons for Right Pricing Parking March 12, 2021
• Streets for People / Eight Things We Can Do to Pedestrianize Duval and Still Allow Cars March 6, 2021
• Streets for People / How We Get Wider Sidewalks Downtown Without Ripping Up the Streets – Parklets February 26, 2021
• Streets for People / The Wee Donkey, Whataboutism, Bathwater and Duval Street’s Future February 19, 2021
• Streets for People / Averting E-Bike Mayhem and Making Key West Sidewalks Safer February 13, 2021
• Streets for People / Sustainability Board Wants to Make Free, Frequent and Simple Key West Transit a Reality February 6, 2021
• Streets for People / Volunteers and a Little Green Paint Show How We Can Make It Safer to Bike February 1, 2021
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #1: Cruise Ship Referenda Passing Makes Duval Street & Downtown’s Future Better January 3, 2021
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #2. Teri Johnston’s Re-Election Moves Our Issues Forward January 2, 2021
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #3: Crosstown Greenway Shows Path Forward for Bikes January 1, 2021
• Key West, Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #4: Duval Street Revitalization Project Brings Hope to Downtown December 28, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #5: Duval and Simonton Rebuilt and Repaved. But… December 27, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #6: Key West Transit Abandons Old Meandering Routes. But… December 26, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #7 Covid Recovery Plan Focuses on Downtown and Business December 25, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #8: Some Progress on E-Bikes and Scooters Ordinance December 22, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #9: FREE Fare on Duval Loop for Visitors is Back! December 21, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #10: The Cow Key Bridge Carmageddon That Wasn’t December 20, 2020
• Welcome to the Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 December 19, 2020
• Recap of Friends of Car-Free Key West Top Stories of 2019 December 18, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #1: Adopting a Key West Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan December 17, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #2: City Adopts Ambitious 10-Year Key West Transit Plan December 16, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #3: New Duval Pocket Park for People Replaces Parking Lot for Cars December 15, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #4: Mall On Duval December 14, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #5: “HAWK” Signals Installed at Five N. Roosevelt Crosswalks December 13, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #6: City Implements Progressive Parking Strategies December 12, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #7: Starting the Crosstown Greenway Project December 11, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #8: Duval Street Revitalization Help Sought Via RFQ December 10, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #9: City Rebuilds Atlantic Boulevard Bike Path December 9, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #10: City Addresses Closing the Gap at Admiral’s Cut December 8, 2020
• Recapping 2019’s Top 10 Stories Before We Count Down 2020’s Top 10 December 7, 2020
• Key West Releases 17-Point Covid Recovery Plan October 21, 2020
• Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Need New Talent on City Commission – That’s Why We’re Voting for Dr. Ryan Barnett in District 6 September 29, 2020
• Capital Bikeshare is 10 Years Old. Its Success Hinged on Pioneers Working Together. September 13, 2020
• We Need Key West Transit To Communicate Their Path Forward August 19, 2020
• Key West Transit Takes Step Towards Future With August Public Hearings July 30, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People: Mayor’s Race July 24, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People: District 3 July 22, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People: District 6 July 21, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People July 20, 2020
• New 91-Space Parking Lot at 1300 Duval is Missed Opportunity for Downtown Affordable Housing and Revitalizing Our Main Street July 11, 2020
• Duval Street – We See the Future and it Could Start Now June 24, 2020
• A Critic’s Thoughts on Car-Free Key West June 21, 2020
• Key West #115 in Best Cities for Bikes List June 10, 2020
• Duval Street Revitalization Moves Forward June 10, 2020
• Does Duval Street/Downtown Need a Business Improvement District? June 4, 2020
• Can We Pedestrianize Duval and Still Allow Vehicles? May 28, 2020
• Is Staples Bike Bridge Safe? May 25, 2020
• Shhhhh… Key West Transit Has Quietly Changed Their Routes May 20, 2020
• Key West, Let’s Radically Speed Up the Implementation of Our Bike/Ped Plan May 20, 2020
• The City Raised Bus Fares. Time to Tackle Parking May 12, 2020
• Reimagining Key West Transit May 10, 2020
• City of Key West – Let Our Restaurants Take the Streets! May 6, 2020
• COMMISSION: NO MORE FREE RIDE FOR YOU May 5, 2020
• It’s Too Early! With Gwen Filosa – 5/4/20 May 4, 2020
• Keep Duval Loop FREE For Visitors April 30, 2020
• Letter to the Editor – Key West Citizen 4/30/20 April 30, 2020
• 20 Parklets on Duval in 2020 April 28, 2020
• Reimagining Key West – 3 Quick Wins for Revitalizing Duval Street April 24, 2020
• Reimagining Key West – 10 Things We Should Strive For and 10 Ways To Get There April 22, 2020
• 89 Great Streets in the U.S.A. April 17, 2020
• Capital Bikeshare Launches April 15, 2020
• ELGL’s 2017 Traeger Award Winners April 2, 2020
• Podcast: Car-Free Planning in DC & Key West April 2, 2020
• It’s Too Early! March 31, 2020
• BikeSwell documentary March 27, 2020
• YouTube March 26, 2020
• Improving Population Mental Health Through Urban Transport – Chris Hamilton at the launch of the Center for Urban Design and Mental Health March 26, 2020
• Interview with Chris Hamilton, Bureau Chief of Arlington County Commuter Services – 2014 ATP Champions March 26, 2020
• Outreach & Education with Infrastructure – Creating a Prosperous Community March 26, 2020
• Empty spaces: New apartment developments need plenty of parking, right? An Arlington County study suggests otherwise March 26, 2020
• WLRN – Miami/South Florida Public Radio March 26, 2020
• Stories in the Key West Citizen March 26, 2020
• Stories in KONK Life March 26, 2020
• Car-Free Key West Plan’s First View March 26, 2020
• Key West Ruins Everything March 23, 2020
• D.C. Baseball, Tattoos and the World Series March 23, 2020
• 10 Tools to Tackle Most Any City’s Downtown Traffic and Parking Problems June 9, 2016
• 11 Books About Fighting for and Building People-First Cities February 21, 2016
• Bribing Biz is the Old Economic Development. Building Bike Infrastructure is the New Way. February 9, 2016
• How To Get Stuff Done In the Face of Bureaucracy October 14, 2015
• A Dozen Easy Principles for Organizational Success September 28, 2015