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  • Friday’s Headlines Debate the Debate

    Sep 13, 2024, 12:44 am By Blake Aued
    As usual, the existential issue of climate change got short shrift during Tuesday’s presidential debate. Kamala Harris retreated to the middle, bragging about record oil production under the Biden administration, while Donald Trump offered his usual word…
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  • What Happens to E-Bikes and E-Scooters In NYC? They’re Fish Food

    Sep 13, 2024, 12:04 am By Sophia Lebowitz
    The sun filters through a bridge over Starlight Park, casting a golden shimmer on the Bronx River. Below the surface, schools of juvenile herring fill the water — small, silvery signs of the river’s fragile recovery. But along the shoreline, the scene is…
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  • The Car Stole Our ‘Bliss’ 125 Years Ago Today

    Sep 13, 2024, 12:04 am By
    The automobile got its first taste of blood 125 years ago today — and it’s never been able to kick the habit. Coverage as far away as Illinois focused on the coming lethal threat of the automobile. On the evening of Sept. 13, 1899 — 125 years ago today…
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  • Transit App Now Provides Safety-First Bike Directions

    Sep 12, 2024, 11:31 am By George Kevin Jordan
    There’s a map for that. A commuter train, subway and bus app is launching an update to allow users to prioritize safe bike routes — but the tech company needs you to help make sure the information is up to date and accurate. Go Bike, from Montreal-based…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Expanding Amtrak Across America

    Sep 12, 2024, 10:34 am By
    This week we’re joined by Mike Christensen, Executive Director of the Utah Rail Passengers Association and a tireless advocate for intercity passenger rail.  Mike chats with us about Amtrak’s expansion plans, the impact of the infrastructure bill and why…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Walk on the Wild Side

    Sep 12, 2024, 1:14 am By Blake Aued
    For the first time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is proposing rules requiring cars to undergo testing for preventing pedestrian head injuries, which is particularly important as trucks and SUVs keep getting taller and heavier (Associated…
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  • On a Roll: Feds Inch Closer to Finally Achieving Key Goal of Americans With Disabilities Act

    Sep 12, 2024, 12:03 am By Marissa Bell
    The 34-year-old Americans With Disabilities Act may soon — finally — give pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or parents pushing strollers true equality in the public right of way. Late last month, the U.S. Department of Transportation signaled that it…
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  • Streetsblog Editor Reflects on the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11

    Sep 11, 2024, 7:46 pm By Roger Rudick
    The phone rang shortly after 6 a.m., 23 years ago today. As I answered groggily, at first I was happy to hear my brother’s voice, calling from Tokyo, where he lived. “Planes hit the World Trade Center,” he said. I was living in Los Angeles at the time.…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Need Waymo Evidence on Robotaxis

    Sep 11, 2024, 12:32 am By Blake Aued
    After a series of very public setbacks, self-driving car manufacturer Waymo is releasing reams of safety data in hopes that transparency will rebuild consumer confidence (The Verge). Meanwhile,Tesla employees have been literally teaching its cars to disobey…
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  • Opinion: Federal Plan to Make Cars Safer for Pedestrians is a Great Start

    Sep 11, 2024, 12:07 am By Angie Schmitt
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally announced this week that it will do what I and others have been prodding it to do for years: force vehicle makers to consider pedestrian safety.  The new “standard” — the details of which…
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  • How Should Parking be Priced in College Towns?

    Sep 11, 2024, 12:02 am By Greg Shill
    A version of piece originally appeared on Greg Shill’s Substack, Infra/Structures. Prof. Donald Shoup has been teaching at the UCLA planning school for half a century, but his influence on urban parking policy continues to grow. Among other things, his work…
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  • What Happened When Streetsblog Chicago Accepted a Skeptic’s Challenge to Count Vehicles on a Protected Bike Lane

    Sep 10, 2024, 7:01 pm By John Greenfield
    This post is sponsored by The Bike Lane. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know all about this experiment. Otherwise, let me quickly bring you up to speed. How it started On August 8, 2024, Chicago real estate professional A.J. Manaseer, who…
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  • Walk this Way: Feds Finally Want Car Safety Testing to Apply to People Outside the Vehicle

    Sep 10, 2024, 7:20 am By Gersh Kuntzman
    Imagine that — the federal government has finally moved to make cars safer … for people outside them. In the midst of a two-decade-long rise in pedestrian deaths that more or less mirrors the sharp rise in American vehicle size, the National Highway…
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  • NY Gov Offers Bizarre Legal Defense of Her Congestion Pricing ‘Pause’

    Sep 10, 2024, 12:41 am By Dave Colon
    Gov. Hochul cannot be compelled to end her congestion pricing “pause” because she hasn’t technically done anything yet by refusing to implement the state-mandated toll according to schedule, her lawyers are arguing. In motion filed on Friday night to…
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  • Opinion: Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad

    Sep 10, 2024, 12:02 am By Hamilton Nolan
    This piece originally appeared on How Things Work and is reprinted with permission. There is much beauty in America. Yet, on average, America is an ugly country. The median American scene, the one that illustrates the most typical view of the most typical…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Let There Be Light

    Sep 9, 2024, 11:59 pm By
    Almost two-thirds of women feel unsafe walking after dark — twice the rate of men, according to an Australian study. Fear of being attacked in the dark is keeping women from walking, jogging or using transit, and the male-dominated transportation industry…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Are Behind the Eight Ball

    Sep 9, 2024, 12:50 am By Blake Aued
    The Biden administration awarded more than $1 billion in grants for 354 traffic safety projects around the country, such as fixing an intersection near a park in Memphis’ historically Black Orange Mound neighborhood. (Route Fifty) Events like Burning Man…
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  • Car Dependency is a Public Health Threat — But Americans are Too ‘Car Brained’ To See It

    Sep 9, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    U.S. residents are more likely to shrug off the preventable public health impacts of car domination than they are to excuse the dangers of poorly regulated workplaces, lax secondhand smoking policies, and the negative consequences of drinking, a new study…
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  • Where Can a Body Safely Park a Bike?

    Sep 6, 2024, 7:06 pm By Melanie Curry
    Safe, secure, convenient bike parking is an underappreciated yet key factor in encouraging people to ride bikes. Bike Rack Map, a new website created by advocates, wants to map, rate, and review bike parking everywhere – with your help. The Bike Rack Map…
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  • It’s Officially Transit Month

    Sep 6, 2024, 6:28 pm By Roger Rudick
    The San Francisco Transit Riders held a rally and ride-along on the historic Muni boat-tram to kick off ‘Transit Month’ Thursday. The event was attended by Mayor London Breed, Senator Scott Wiener, SFMTA Director of Transportation Jefferey Tumlin, San…
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