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  • Report: Confronting Car Dependence Won’t Just Help With Climate Change; It’s a $6.2 Trillion Opportunity

    Oct 30, 2024, 6:51 am By Kea Wilson
    Strong policies aimed at reducing how much Americans need to drive wouldn’t just decarbonize the transportation sector and make our communities more healthy and equitable, a new study finds — it would also save us $6.2 trillion more than focusing on…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Worry About November

    Oct 30, 2024, 1:48 am By Blake Aued
    A Trump victory could mean deep cuts to Amtrak and the D.C. Metro, less funding for bike and pedestrian projects, and threaten transit projects like the Red Line in Maryland. (Washington Post) Online shoppers are switching to slower delivery methods not only…
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  • Commentary: Police Need to Stop Exonerating Drivers in Fatal Crashes

    Oct 29, 2024, 6:24 pm By Roger Rudick
    Broke Ass Stuart is reporting that the pedestrian killed by a motorist Friday morning while crossing Geary was a bartender at Zeitgeist. From their post: The incident occurred on the downhill side of Geary towards downtown, opposite Broderick Street. His jeans…
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  • How America’s Mayors Are Fighting Back Against Harmful Highways

    Oct 29, 2024, 12:03 am By Streetsblog
    Highways and other federal transportation investments have destroyed neighborhoods of color across America, even as the current presidential administration attempts to heal those wounds through grants like the Reconnecting Communities Program. But what is it…
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  • On Saturday, The Place to Make a New Friend Was The Staten Island Ferry

    Oct 29, 2024, 12:02 am By Bella Gallo
    The Staten Island Ferry — great for a free ride across the harbor, but a place to connect to fellow New Yorkers? Usually, not so much. But on Saturday, the creators of Public Transport Magazine unleashed the potential as roughly five dozen people flocked to…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Are Pro-Business

    Oct 28, 2024, 11:50 pm By Blake Aued
    Contrary to critics’ feelings, research shows that bike lanes really do lead to less traffic, fewer emissions and more customers for small businesses. (CBC) Conscious of the financial and environmental costs of overnight shipping, more consumers are opting…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Vote for Transit

    Oct 28, 2024, 12:40 am By Blake Aued
    Referendums to raise a total of more than $50 billion for transit, bike and pedestrian projects are on the ballot in at least 21 cities, counties and states, including metro Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego, the Phoenix area, Nashville, Charleston, Seattle…
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  • The People Behind America’s Game-Changing Local Infrastructure Grants

    Oct 28, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    History knows the Selma-to-Montgomery Trail as the site of some of the most famous moments in the America’s civil rights movement, including Bloody Sunday, when state troopers brutalized more than 500 protestors as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That…
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  • Happy Birthday, NYSubway! Challenges and Opportunities as the System Turns 120

    Oct 27, 2024, 12:01 am By Lisa Daglian
    On Oct. 27, 1904, the subway made its first run from City Hall to Grand Central, ushering in a new era of progress and growth for our city. To mark the event, Lisa Daglian of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA offered these hopes and fears…
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  • San Francisco Advocates Fight to Make Great Highway Park Permanent

    Oct 25, 2024, 5:52 pm By Roger Rudick
    The ‘Yes on K campaign,’ which is fighting for the future of the Great Highway Park, is going into overdrive as the election approaches. From a recent email blast from advocates: A new SF Chronicle poll shows that this race is a toss-up: 46% of voters…
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  • Friday Video: Groucho Marx and the ‘Love Affair’ with the Car

    Oct 25, 2024, 8:57 am By Gersh Kuntzman
    Now here’s something that should get Groucho Marx canceled. Our friends at The War on Cars podcast are back with a new video dissecting America’s supposed “love affair with the car.” Yes, Americans drive a lot, but if you know the history, our supposed…
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  • Friday’s Headlines Walk Five Hundred Miles

    Oct 25, 2024, 1:09 am By Blake Aued
    Wider streets increase the chances that a pedestrian will be hit while crossing, according to an NYU study. Fortunately there are simple ways to make intersections safer, such as crossing signals, speed tables and pedestrian refuge islands. (Smart Cities Dive)…
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  • Opinion: Who Does Passenger Rail Serve?

    Oct 25, 2024, 12:01 am By Lenny Zaleski
    Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Rail Passengers and is republished with permission. Most rail passengers in the United States aren’t going over 400 miles in a trip. A lot of them are going one way and are on state-supported corridors. …
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Urgency and Vision Zero

    Oct 24, 2024, 10:38 am By Jeff Wood
    This week we’re joined by Leah Shahum, Founder and Executive Director of the Vision Zero Network. We chat about why it’s so hard to make change, the implicit biases around designing for automobiles and the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic…
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  • Why America Has So Much Road Safety Research, But So Little Actual Safety

    Oct 24, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    America is awash in taxpayer-sponsored road safety research, a new study finds — but that ocean of studies isn’t always translating into solid guidance that actually saves lives. In a sprawling new report from the National Academies of Sciences — a…
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  • Cycle of Rage: To NY Gov., Saving Lives is Important, But Not if It’s Too Expensive to Suburban Drivers

    Oct 24, 2024, 12:03 am By Gersh Kuntzman
    The safety is too damn high! Gov. Hochul signed into law an expansion on New York City red light cameras on Wednesday, saying that she didn’t want to waste “any more time” before improving road safety — but when it comes to the safety benefits of…
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  • Bringing Planning to the People: Social Media as a Tool

    Oct 24, 2024, 12:01 am By Brittany Simmons
    This article was originally published in Transportation Alternatives’ Vision Zero Cities Journal as part of the 2024 Vision Zero Cities conference. When were you first introduced to urban planning? Some may just happen to know an urban planner, or maybe they…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Wish It Would Rain

    Oct 23, 2024, 11:45 pm By Blake Aued
    Droughts along the Mississippi River driven by climate change are driving up the cost of one of the most environmentally friendly ways to transport goods. (Governing) Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris has had much to say about transportation, but the…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines, Like Elections, Have Consequences

    Oct 23, 2024, 12:02 am By Blake Aued
    Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris talks much about transportation on the campaign trail, but the winner will have a huge influence on federal transportation spending and policy, Yonah Freemark writes. The first Trump administration spent almost half its…
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  • E-Wheeling and Dealing: A New Age of Public Service

    Oct 23, 2024, 12:01 am By Meg Young
    Editor’s note: this article is an excerpt from the Vision Zero Cities Journal and is republished with permission. For more information on the Vision Zero Cities 2024 conference, click here. As a public servant who has worked in transportation planning at…
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