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  • Do Bike Advocates and EMS Workers Have to Be Enemies?

    Apr 9, 2024, 12:02 am By Streetsblog
    Is it possible to build streets that are slow enough to keep vulnerable road users safe and lightning-fast when an emergency service vehicle needs to reach a person in need? That’s been a hot topic of debate among U.S. sustainable transportation advocates…
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  • Boondoggle: Oregon Highway Widening Gets ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Cash

    Apr 8, 2024, 12:03 am By Joe Cortright
    A federal program known as Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods is meant to provide funding for neighborhood groups to begin the process of undoing the vast damage caused by urban freeways that created barriers to community connectivity. So then why is…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Go Downtown

    Apr 8, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    The suburbs are striving to become more like downtowns because young people crave walkability. (Governing) Fast Company suggests that more people will want to bike as climate change worsens, and cities can hasten this development by spending more on bike…
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  • ‘You’re Getting an E-Bike!’ Colorado Plays Oprah with Rebates

    Apr 8, 2024, 12:01 am By George Kevin Jordan
    Colorado residents can now get a $450 rebate towards the purchase of an e-bike, thanks to a first-of-its-kind initiative that’s unique because buyers get the credit at the point of sale. Advocates hope it will be a game-changer for reducing the number of…
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  • Googling Gersh Kuntzman’s ‘Criminal Mischief’? Look No Further…

    Apr 6, 2024, 12:03 pm By
    It’s been a big week for our editor Gersh Kuntzman’s fight against people who deface or cover their plates to avoid being held accountable for reckless driving. First, he was honored by “Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta in a segment he calls,…
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  • Friday’s Headlines Are a Double Whammy

    Apr 5, 2024, 12:40 am By Blake Aued
    Another federal judge ruled against the Biden administration rule requiring states to report their transportation emissions, but won’t block it while the decision is under appeal. (Reuters) The U.S. DOT is accepting applications for $7.5 billion in grants…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Culture Change in Cleveland

    Apr 4, 2024, 2:11 pm By Jeff Wood
    This week’s episode is a one-on-one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They…
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  • Eclipse Special: Bad Moon Rising for Transit Users Who Want to See the Show

    Apr 4, 2024, 1:52 pm By Aaron Short
    There’s a darkness on the edge of town. The upcoming solar eclipse — one of the most anticipated events of the year — will cast a narrow band of the country in shadows, but it will also shed light on the fact that many areas can’t deal with crowds of…
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  • How Feds Can Help End Racially Biased Policing on the Roads

    Apr 4, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
    Federal transportation leaders can reduce police violence against people of color on American roads by disincentivizing potentially deadly pretextual stops that don’t actually curb car crashes, a leading progressive group argues. Researchers from the Center…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Are Down but Still Bad

    Apr 4, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    While traffic deaths declined 3.6 percent in 2023, they still topped 40,000 and remain at a historically high level, according to Federal Highway Safety Administration data. (The Truth About Cars; Streetsblog) Heavy-duty trucks make up only 5 percent of…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Say the Car Loans Are Too Damn High

    Apr 3, 2024, 12:48 am By Blake Aued
    The Autopian argues that inflation and high interest rates are what drives consumers toward small cars, not gas prices. In that context, it makes sense that automakers miscalculated when they went all-in on big, expensive electric SUVs and pickup trucks…
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  • Latest Pedestrian and Cyclist Fatality Stats Are Deadly Déja-Vu

    Apr 2, 2024, 6:20 pm By Kea Wilson
    Another year, another record for pedestrian and cyclist deaths — and another breezy social media post from transportation leaders that functionally erases the growing epidemic. On Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released both its…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Running on Empty

    Apr 2, 2024, 12:51 am By Blake Aued
    Empty parking lots are a blight on America’s cities they house no one, contribute little revenue and rob them of their sense of place. (Washington Post) Traffic deaths continued to rise in the U.S. even after cities started to set Vision Zero goals, probably…
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  • Study: Fentanyl Use Rising on the Roads — But No One Knows by How Much

    Apr 2, 2024, 12:02 am By Kea Wilson
    The percentage of dead motorists who had fentanyl in their systems has doubled in recent years, a new study finds — but with testing, legislation, and meaningful solutions still severely limited, experts fear that the true scope of the problem may be even…
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  • Data: State DOTs Look Nothing Like the Residents They Serve

    Apr 1, 2024, 12:02 am By Streetsblog
    The highest-ranking leaders at America’s state transportation and highway departments are vastly more likely to be white and male than their constituents — and the needs of the marginalized will be under-represented until leadership is more…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Bring Bad News for Biden

    Apr 1, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas struck down a Biden administration rule requiring state and local transportation agencies to report greenhouse gas emissions and develop plans to reduce them (Reuters). Meanwhile, the administration announced new…
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  • Friday’s Headlines Hush That Fuss

    Mar 29, 2024, 1:12 am By Blake Aued
    Transport Matters makes a strong case for more bus rapid transit. Riders like zero-emissions buses. (The City Fix) American cities are full of blighted parking lots that serve no purpose, not even to park cars. (Washington Post) Reducing drivers is also in the…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Saving Transit from the Fiscal Cliff

    Mar 28, 2024, 11:14 am By Jeff Wood
    This week we’re sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates organized funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff last year for transit operators in the state. The discussion — led by…
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  • Why We Care About Some Transportation Tragedies More Than Others

    Mar 28, 2024, 12:48 am By Kea Wilson
    American media outlets and transportation officials are scrambling to explain the cascading failures that caused the collapse of a key Baltimore bridge. But what if we treated our national epidemic of car crashes with that same degree of urgency — not to…
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  • The Toll of History: MTA Board Approves $15 Congestion Pricing Fee

    Mar 28, 2024, 12:05 am By Dave Colon
    New York City’s congestion pricing tolls are one historic step closer to reality after Wednesday’s 11-1 MTA board vote in favor of the state’s proposed pricing structure for the program — with only pesky lawsuits standing in the way of the traffic…
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