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  • Friday Video: New York City Has a ‘Concrete’ Plan for Better Bike Lanes

    Sep 6, 2024, 9:05 am By Streetsblog
    New York City has some big plans to protect people on bikes. But how do they actually take those ideas from a pipe dream to a concrete reality? Check out the latest episode from Streetfilms, where our own Clarence Eckerson Jr. talks to NYC DOT’s Office of…
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  • Friday’s Headlines Fought the Law and the Law Won

    Sep 6, 2024, 12:45 am By Blake Aued
    A Next City op-ed pushes back on the idea that stepped-up traffic enforcement can save lives, citing police violence against Black and brown drivers, and more effective solutions like safer street design. Lyft is getting rid of its dockless bikes and scooters…
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  • Recent Pedestrian Fatality Cases Rise on Chicago Streets

    Sep 5, 2024, 8:49 pm By John Greenfield
    As recently noted on this site, there were a few pedestrian fatality cases this summer on Chicago streets reported by other news outlets, and included in our daily Today’s Headlines roundup, but not yet written about here. Streetsblog Chicago cofounder…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Leadership for the Future

    Sep 5, 2024, 11:50 am By Jeff Wood
    This week on Talking Headways, we’re joined by podcaster and transit expert Paul Comfort and former California State Transportation Agency Secretary David Kim to talk about their book The New Future of Public Transportation. It’s not all about transit,…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Miss the Cheese Wagon

    Sep 5, 2024, 2:05 am By Blake Aued
    From budget cuts to driver shortages, school buses are facing the same problems as city transit systems. It’s left students walking dangerous routes home and parents spewing pollution idling in car lines. (Slate) New rules the U.S. DOT proposed would make it…
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  • This Year’s Park(ing) Day Hopes to Inspire Big Policy Change

    Sep 5, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    A three-day global art and advocacy project will transform parking spaces into parks and other places people actually want to enjoy — and this year, the event organizers are sending a message about how policy can help make those changes permanent. From Sept.…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Seek Subsidies

    Sep 4, 2024, 1:44 am By Blake Aued
    The U.S. has spent $12 billion on subsidies for unproven climate change technologies like carbon capture, benefitting Exxon and other polluting companies. That money could have gone toward more effective solutions like electric transportation and green energy,…
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  • What the Media is Getting Wrong About the Gaudreau Brothers’ Deaths

    Sep 4, 2024, 1:14 am By Kea Wilson
    The killing of professional hockey players, cyclists, and brothers Johnny and Matty Gaudreau by an apparently drunk SUV driver has sparked a national conversation about who is to blame for the crash. The Gaudreau brothers were cycling along a two-lane road…
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  • Speed Limit Assist Technology May Soon Be Required in California Cars

    Sep 3, 2024, 6:49 pm By Melanie Curry
    Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. Safety…
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  • Another Fantastic ‘Bike the Drive’ Event Highlights the Benefits of Downtown Chicago Less Car-Centric

    Sep 3, 2024, 5:40 pm By Cameron Bolton
    This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. As summer unofficially drew to a close on Labor Day Weekend, the Active Transportation Alliance held its 23rd annual Bike the Drive last Sunday, September 1. As always, it was an epic event, where many thousands of…
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  • In New York, The School Year Will Start Without Promised Stop-Arm Cameras

    Sep 3, 2024, 12:04 am By David Meyer
    Automated stop-arm enforcement won’t be enabled on New York City school buses when public schools reopen this week — nearly three years after the City Council authorized the life-saving cameras. Other jurisdictions across the state have already implemented…
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  • How Cities Are Getting Creative To Reclaim Public Space for People

    Sep 3, 2024, 12:02 am By Streetsblog
    “Reclaiming public space” isn’t just about turning vacant lots into parks — or bulldozing homes for highways. And in a recent report, the Regional Plan Association of New York’s tri-state area argues that the planning profession needs a new approach…
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  • Are Memphis’s Massive Transit Cuts The Start of an Alarming Trend?

    Sep 3, 2024, 12:02 am By Amal Ahmed
    Sammie Hunter has been riding the bus in Memphis his whole life: as a teenager on the way to school, and these days, to work when his wife is using the single car that they share. It would take him about 20 minutes to drive to his job on an average day. But…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Are History Repeating Itself

    Sep 3, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    California’s ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars, set to take effect in 2035, is actually nothing new. In the 1960s, as emissions blanketed cities in smog, state legislators tried to limit or ban gas-powered cars and almost succeeded. (Grist) More than…
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  • Report: Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options

    Aug 30, 2024, 2:59 pm By Melanie Curry
    Researchers at the University of California Davis Institute of Transportation Studies analyzed data collected from ride-hail users in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, and Los Angeles and Orange counties and found that 47 percent of Uber and Lyft trips…
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  • Dam the Torpedoes, Friday’s Headlines Are Ahead

    Aug 30, 2024, 1:16 am By Blake Aued
    Even in 2024, some officials are still talking about Black communities as “blighted” areas that should be replaced with freeways, and they still haven’t grasped the concept of induced demand. David Zipper writes in Slate about how the environmental…
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  • Friday Video: How (and Why) To Paint a Ghost Bike

    Aug 30, 2024, 12:03 am By Streetsblog
    Roadside memorials to victims of traffic violence are an unfortunately common sight across America. Even more unfortunately, though, those altars are often removed by people who don’t understand their importance to the people left grieving — and to…
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  • Media Critique: Labor Day Traffic Coverage Ignores Trains

    Aug 29, 2024, 7:20 pm By Roger Rudick
    Amtrak operates nearly 70 trains a day in the state of California, carrying millions of people. “Before the pandemic, Amtrak’s ridership in California averaged nearly 12 million people; that’s almost as much as the vaunted Northeast Corridor between…
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  • Killed by a Traffic Engineer: CalBike Interviews Wes Marshall

    Aug 29, 2024, 5:19 pm By Laura McCamy
    Note: This post is being published concurrently at CalBike. Wes Marshall’s new book, Killed by a Traffic Engineer, is a must-read for bike and walk advocates and anyone who cares about reforming our backward approach to road safety. At 370 pages, it’s a…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: The Real Work of Safe Streets

    Aug 29, 2024, 12:22 pm By Jeff Wood
    This week on Talking Headways we chat with transportation and planning expert Warren Logan, who is running for Oakland City Council in District 3. We discuss the differences in how people perceive government works, the need for more flexible streets, and…
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