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  • San Francisco’s World Day of Remembrance

    7:11pm By Roger Rudick
    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. Yuriy…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Care About Safety

    12:01am By Blake Aued
    A Mineta Transportation Institute poll found that 70% of Americans would be willing to pay higher gas taxes if the money went toward safer roads and highways. Perhaps that’s because so many have been victims of traffic violence themselves — one in six said…
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  • Highway Boondoggles 2023: Pandering in the Panhandle

    12:00am By James Horrox
    This article is a part of our annual Highway Boondoggles series in partnership with U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Click here to read the other articles in the series as they are published. I-10 expansion, El PasoCost: $750 million Opened in the 1960s,…
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  • Micromobility Is Having a Weird Year

    12:00am By Kea Wilson
    From one standpoint, U.S. micromobility is having a major moment.  NACTO’s recently published annual micromobility report showed that docked bikeshare just had its best year in history, roaring back from pandemic-era lows and eclipsing last year’s…
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  • ‘World Day of Remembrance’: Connecting Grief to Activism

    Nov 17, 2023, 1:00 pm By Dan Langenkamp
    On Nov. 20, 2022, nearly 2,000 DC-area residents took what may have been their coldest and most important bike ride of the year — the Ride for Your Life, in honor of Sarah Debbink Langenkamp, a U.S. diplomat and mother, who had been killed in Bethesda just a…
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  • ‘World Day of Remembrance’: Let’s Banish ‘Windshield Bias’ and Talk About Car Crashes

    Nov 17, 2023, 11:25 am By Triny Willerton
    Five years ago, I lay broken on the pavement in desperate need of medical attention. As the driver of the F150 pickup truck who hit me was yelling and blaming me for his own inattention, I can assure you I wasn’t worried about “windshield bias.” I should…
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  • Friday’s Headlines Are Ready to Fight

    Nov 17, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    After the freeway wars of the 1960s and ’70s, the New Avengers are assembling to fight the coming battle against the next generation of interstate highway projects. (Bloomberg) Our current path toward autonomous vehicles will only deepen our dependence on…
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  • How ‘Skeuomorphism’ Is Making U.S. Roads More Deadly

    Nov 17, 2023, 12:00 am By Lloyd Alter
    Editor’s note: this article originally appeared on Carbon Upfront and is republished with permission. When I saw my first F-150 Lightning in the parking lot in Dorset this summer, I was shocked at how big it was; our Subaru parked behind it wasn’t as high…
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  • Automated Bike Lane Enforcement Laws Are Taking Off — And So Is Camera Tech

    Nov 17, 2023, 12:00 am By George Kevin Jordan
    Automated bike enforcement laws are a growing trend across the nation – and one company thinks they’ve finally developed the advanced technology to make that emerging legislation a reality. Following recent bike enforcement bills in Chicago, California,…
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  • How the 10 Freeway Closure is Impacting Transit Riders

    Nov 16, 2023, 8:58 pm By Joe Linton
    Angelenos are adjusting to the impacts of the downtown Los Angeles 10 Freeway closure, currently in its sixth day and expected to last three to five weeks. There has been a lot of attention on how drivers are faring. But what about L.A.’s million daily…
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  • For Transportation Workers, Driverless Cars Are an Office Safety Issue

    Nov 16, 2023, 1:00 pm By Kea Wilson
    Following a spate of crashes and near-misses with “driverless” cars, a large coalition of U.S. transportation workers is joining with pedestrians to call for more regulation of the emerging tech — and sending a reminder that untested autonomous vehicles…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Crossings and the Moving Fence

    Nov 16, 2023, 9:25 am By Jeff Wood
    This week, we’re joined by author Ben Goldfarb to talk about his book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Norton). We discuss how roads cut off ecosystems, wildlife crossings, and animal mobility at different scales. Lots of you…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Avoid the Cliff

    Nov 16, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    Transit agencies facing a fiscal cliff should aggressively seek out new funding sources while also running the best service they can now, rather than cut back for fear of running out of money, experts said at two recent conferences. (Governing) Suburban design…
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  • Highway Boondoggles 2023: The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly in … Gorham

    Nov 16, 2023, 12:00 am By James Horrox
    This article is a part of our annual Highway Boondoggles series in partnership with U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Click here to read the other articles in the series as they are published. Gorham Connector, MaineCost: $220-$240 million Generally…
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  • OPINION: Infrastructure Bill Offers Too Little Progress on Climate and Equity

    Nov 16, 2023, 12:00 am By Bakari Height
    This week marks two years since the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — a historic investment in U.S. transportation systems at a critical moment. But despite the billions of dollars flowing to transportation, we’ve seen disappointingly…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines About the Biggest Boondoggles

    Nov 15, 2023, 12:31 am By Blake Aued
    U.S. PIRG released its annual list of highway boondoggles, including several projects being pushed forward by the Biden administration’s infrastructure act. An ongoing Streetsblog series breaks down each project in-depth. The Biden administration’s “fix…
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  • Study: E-Bikes Can Help Seniors and People With Disabilities — If They Can Overcome Barriers to Riding

    Nov 15, 2023, 12:00 am By George Kevin Jordan
    E-bikes can be a critical mobility aid for seniors or people with disabilities — but the first step is getting those populations to abandon their preconceptions that the mode just isn’t built for them, a new report suggests. A study published this month…
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  • New Bill Would Finally Rewrite the ‘Notorious’ MUTCD for Vulnerable Road User Safety

    Nov 15, 2023, 12:00 am By Kea Wilson
    The federal government could slash red tape that’s strangling local governments’ ability to design communities safe for vulnerable road users under a new bill that hopes to rein in one of America’s most controversial road design manuals.Last week, Sen.…
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  • Complete Streets Survey Results: Californians Are Scared to Use Caltrans Streets

    Nov 14, 2023, 7:10 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. The…
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  • All Aboard Tuesday’s Headlines

    Nov 14, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    Even if high-speed rail is still a ways off, the federal infrastructure bill is already paying dividends for Amtrak in the form of modern train cars and expanded service. (Fast Company) A House GOP funding bill failed after Northeastern Republicans refused to…
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