Hey, Gov. Hochul, Here’s How Congestion Pricing Would Have Remade Manhattan
Jun 24, 2024, 3:57 pm By Gersh Kuntzman
Just in time for Sunday night’s failed launch of congestion pricing, Streetfilms’s Clarence Eckerson has returned from Stockholm with a new video that shows how great a city can be when 20 percent of the cars are removed. See it for yourself: Public space…When Victims Die More Than 30 Days After a Crash, They Don’t Count
Jun 24, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
When 9-year-old Ben Sears was struck by a pick-up truck driver while crossing the street in 2016, he became yet another one of the tens of thousands of U.S. residents who fall victim to traffic violence every year. For Ben’s loved ones, though, the pain of…Monday’s Headlines Get Money
Jun 24, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
House and Senate leaders will go to work on transportation funding bills when they return from their Fourth of July break. (Transportation Topics) With efforts to build bullet trains in the U.S. finally ramping up, the High Speed Rail Coalition has released a…Get to Know Your MPO: An Advocate’s Guide to Some of Our Most Critical Transportation Agencies
Jun 24, 2024, 12:01 am By Carter Lavin
This year, Metropolitan Planning Organizations — or MPOs — have taken center stage in transportation advocacy across America. Michiganders got their MPO to cancel a highway expansion plan, St. Louis and Denver MPO’s have approved light rail expansions,…Federal Judge Sets Aside a Key Congestion Pricing Lawsuit
Jun 21, 2024, 3:38 am By Gersh Kuntzman
Case dismissed! Gov. Hochul’s rationale for killing congestion pricing took another blow on Thursday as a federal judge issued definitive and sometimes scathing ruling against some of the supposed “working class” New Yorkers on whose behalf Hochul…Friday’s Headlines
Jun 21, 2024, 1:08 am By Blake Aued
Commutes are getting longer, with 18 percent of workers traveling at least 40 miles, up from 15 percent before the pandemic, and 3 percent traveling 70 miles or more. Stanford University researchers suspect that hybrid workers are willing to tolerate longer…Friday Video: Why Cities Around the World Are Reducing Speed Limits
Jun 21, 2024, 12:02 am By
Cities around the world are finally waking up to the laws of physics and dropping speed limits in places where people walk. But how are they tackling the political challenges of getting drivers to hit the brakes — and what are the other benefits of fighting…Talking Headways Podcast: When Driving is Not an Option
Jun 20, 2024, 9:55 am By Jeff Wood
This week, I’m joined by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving. Click…Report: Cities are Undermining Sustainable Mobility with Fees and Taxes
Jun 20, 2024, 6:02 am By Gersh Kuntzman
The vast majority of American cities put such high fees and taxes on micromobility companies that they undermine their stated goals of reducing car use and fighting climate change, a new report shows. According to the study from researchers at Portland and…Thursday’s Headlines Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Jun 20, 2024, 12:05 am By Blake Aued
A Frontier Group report suggests that environmentally damaging deep-sea mining to acquire the valuable minerals needed to build electric car batteries wouldn’t be necessary if we recycled what we’ve already extracted. Cars should be designed to be easily…Wednesday’s Headlines Wonder What If?
Jun 19, 2024, 12:42 am By Blake Aued
Congestion pricing could have been one of those momentous decisions that changed a city’s trajectory forever. (New York Times) London’s experience with congestion pricing show that it would become popular in New York if paired with a massive expansion of…Three-Quarters of Black Motorists Are Struggling With the Cost of Car Ownership
Jun 19, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
The economic burden of owning a car is hitting Black families far harder than white ones, a new study finds — and its authors argue that making driving optional for more Americans is the only meaningful strategy to cure that disparity. Researchers at the…National Green Groups Condemn Hochul’s Congestion Pricing ‘Pause’
5:00am By Gersh Kuntzman
Since Gov. Hochul’s June 6 announcement that she had killed congestion pricing, Streetsblog reporters have posted more than 30 stories about the crisis from New York and Albany. But that level of intensity also requires support from our readers. Click…All Aboard for Tuesday’s Headlines
1:00am By Blake Aued
Amtrak is on pace to break its ridership record this year. Ridership is up 20 percent over the same period in 2023, its CEO said at a House hearing. (Reuters) “Train Daddy” Andy Byford thinks Americans will clamor for more high-speed rail once one route is…The Real Reason Why Traffic Engineers Design So Many Deadly Roads
12:03am By Streetsblog
Who, exactly is designing America’s notriously deadly road network — and how on earth do they keep getting away with it? On today’s episode of The Brake, we’re talking to traffic engineer, academic and now author, Wes Marshall, whose new book —…Congressional Watchdog Launches Probe Into Why Massive Cars Kill So Many Pedestrians and Cyclists
Mon 12:03am By Kea Wilson
Congress has launched an investigation into whether America’s limited vehicle safety standards are driving the rise in deaths of vulnerable road users — and what it will take to finally stop automakers from selling cars that countless studies show are…Car-Free Cities Are Not ‘Radical’
Mon 12:01am By Addison Del Mastro
Editor’s note: a version of this article originally appeared on Resident Urbanist. It is republished with permission. Recently, I wrote about the transformation of Amsterdam from an old European city, to a car-choked city in the middle of the 20th century,…Monday’s Headlines Mourn Congestion Pricing
Mon 12:01am By Blake Aued
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s last-minute decision to block congestion pricing in Manhattan was also a major setback for other cities like Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles that were closely watching New York City’s experiment. (NY Times) Two new bills —…Feds: Congestion Pricing Will Be Better Than We Even Thought … And the Pressure is Now on Hochul
Jun 14, 2024, 8:08 pm By Dave Colon
Since Gov. Hochul’s June 6 announcement that she had killed congestion pricing, Streetsblog reporters have posted more than 30 stories about the crisis from New York and Albany. But that level of intensity also requires support from our readers. Click…Friday Video: Debunking Engineers’ Excuses … With The Power of Hip-Hop
Jun 14, 2024, 12:03 am By Streetsblog
When traffic engineers shut down good road projects — and promote bad ones — they tend to use the same handful of insufferable buzzwords, dubious studies, and condescending technocratic excuses again and again. In a recent California Bike Summit…
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