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  • Thursday’s Headlines Are Micro and Mobile

    Feb 1, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    2024 will be an important year for micromobility as the increasing popularity of bikeshares and scooter rentals bumps up against service providers’ financial instability. (Smart Cities Dive) Cargo bikes are making a dent in car ownership, according to one…
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  • Study: Find Out Exactly How Much More Likely a Tall Car Will Kill You

    Jan 31, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    America could cut nearly 18 percent of pedestrian deaths a year just by capping the hood height of passenger trucks and SUVs at the level of a modest crossover, a new report finds — but its author says taking even that simple step would be both politically…
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  • 50 Years Since Nixon’s ‘National Speed Limit’: A Tale of Missed Opportunities

    Jan 31, 2024, 12:02 am By Aaron Short
    This time, progress went backwards. But now, maybe, it’s going back to the future. On Jan. 2, 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a National Maximum Speed Limit law that restricted highway driving at 55 miles per hour across the country, yet for almost all…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Color Inside the Lines

    Jan 31, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    Former New York City transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan co-authored a Washington Post column celebrating the U.S. DOT’s decision to allow colorful artist crosswalks that promote safety by drawing drivers’ attention. The Federal Transit…
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  • Reforming a 44-Year-Old Insurance Law Could Prevent Thousands of Deadly Truck Crashes a Year

    Jan 30, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    The feds must close a little known – and decades-old — loophole that may be responsible for thousands of deaths on U.S. roads: rock-bottom insurance minimums that allow unsafe trucking companies to skimp on even the most basic safety measures, said…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Are On Cruise Control

    Jan 30, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    GM driverless car subsidiary Cruise said in a report that its executives’ animosity towards regulators led to a crash where a woman was dragged 20 feet, California suspending its operations and a subsequent federal investigation. (New York Times) Inflation…
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  • Chicago Bike Camping Program Empowers People With Special nNeeds

    Jan 29, 2024, 10:07 pm By John Greenfield
    Riding a bicycle can provide a wonderful sense of freedom. That’s especially true for people with disabilities, who may experience a powerful feeling of liberation from adaptive cycling programs. Out Our Front Door, a Chicagoland-based nonprofit “that…
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  • Die-In Rally Calls on LA Mayor to End Record Traffic Deaths

    Jan 29, 2024, 4:11 pm By Joe Linton
    This article supported by Los Angeles Bicycle Attorney as part of a general sponsorship package. All opinions in the article are that of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of LABA. Click on the ad for more information. Last Saturday, more than a…
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  • Report: We Should Stop Subsidizing EVs For All and Focus on ‘Super-Drivers’

    Jan 29, 2024, 12:03 am By Kea Wilson
    America should ditch its “one-size-fits-all” approach to encouraging EV adoption and focus on getting the highest-mileage drivers to go electric, while focusing on mode shift strategies for the rest of us, a new report suggests. According to a…
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  • … But Instead of Subsidizing the ‘Super-Drivers,’ We Should Soak Them: Opinion

    Jan 29, 2024, 12:03 am By Charles Komanoff
    One-tenth of American motorists, we’ve just learned, consume more than a third of U.S. gasoline.  This lead-footed cohort, dubbed “superusers” in a recent analysis, burn almost as much fuel — and, thus, spew nearly as much carbon dioxide — as all…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Are Too Tall

    Jan 29, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    A new study confirms that taller vehicles are more likely to kill pedestrians in a crash, with the victim 22 percent more likely to die for every 10-centimeter increase in hood height. Capping front ends at a little over four feet would save more than 500…
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  • NYPD Hands Out ‘Vision Zero’ Awards After 257 People Were Killed and 40,000 Injured Last Year

    Jan 26, 2024, 11:40 pm By Julianne Cuba
    Police brass on Friday announced that 70 of its 77 precincts — or 91 percent — failed to achieve Vision Zero in 2023, capping a year in which more than 39,000 were injured and 257 people were killed on city streets. Of course, that wasn’t the NYPD’s…
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  • Don’t Tread on Friday’s Headlines

    Jan 26, 2024, 12:12 am By Blake Aued
    Electric vehicle tires need replacing as often as every 7,000 miles, which is not only a big expense, but the extra wear releases more unhealthy particle pollution into the atmosphere. (Miami Herald) Climate change is causing more potholes in roads. (BBC) With…
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  • Check Out America’s Best New Bike Lanes

    Jan 26, 2024, 12:01 am By Martina Haggerty
    This post originally appeared on PeopleForBikes and is reprinted here with permission. From bustling cities to small towns, communities from coast to coast amplified their commitment to better biking with an unprecedented surge in safer, more comfortable…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Are We Taking Less Trips?

    Jan 25, 2024, 8:54 am By Jeff Wood
    This week, we’re joined by an absolute legend in the livable streets movement: Angie Schmitt, former Streetsblog USA editor and now owner and principal at 3MPH Planning and Consulting. We chat about changing travel behavior in cities, the impact of recent…
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  • Better Red Than Dead: New York Takes Up Camera Reauthorization, Expansion

    Jan 25, 2024, 12:02 am By Gersh Kuntzman
    Albany needs to get it right on red. Activists and local pols are pushing the state legislature to not only reauthorize the city’s tiny red-light camera program, but also expand it from the current cap of 150 intersections to 1,325. If the legislature fails…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Plunge Ahead

    Jan 25, 2024, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    If U.S. officials can ever get over their fear of backlash from drivers, psychology and experience from European cities shows that restricting cars in cities will eventually become popular (BBC). London is an example, where the city is tearing up financial…
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  • S.F. Senator Scott Wiener intros Bill to Limit/Cap Speeds of New Cars

    Jan 24, 2024, 6:20 pm By Roger Rudick
    San Francisco’s State Senator Scott Wiener announced two bills Wednesday that could go a long way towards making streets safer. S.B. 961 would require all cars and trucks sold in California after 2027 to have speed limiters/governors. From the Senator’s…
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  • NY Advocates Push for Speed Limit Reductions for Fourth Year

    Jan 24, 2024, 3:16 pm By Kevin Duggan
    ALBANY — Wait ’til last year! Advocates trekked to the State Capitol to lobby lawmakers for a slate of street safety bills, including permission for the city to set its own speed limits, that failed catastrophically last year despite a 100-hour hunger…
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  • Bike Buses Are Routes to Activism, Says First Global Survey

    Jan 24, 2024, 8:48 am By Jonathan Maus
    Editor’s note: this article originally appeared on Bike Portland and is republished with permission. A university based in Barcelona, Spain has released the first-ever report on bike bus efforts around the globe. The report, from the City Lab Barcelona…
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