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  • Three NYC Asphalt Trucks Exploded Last Spring, Raising Safety, Environmental Concerns: Records

    Oct 24, 2023, 12:01 am By Jesse Coburn
    On an otherwise quiet night early last spring, a loud boom echoed through Prospect Park. A New York City Department of Transportation asphalt truck had exploded, shooting a large hunk of metal 200 feet into the air and nearly knocking a city worker off his…
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  • Mobility Safety from a Feminist Perspective

    Oct 23, 2023, 12:01 am By Sara Ortiz Escalante
    Road safety is gendered. Gender-differentiated mobility patterns, as well as stereotyped road behaviors that reproduce hegemonic male roles associated with exposure to risk, speed, and a sense of immunity and immortality, are killing people.  According to the…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Need Better Infrastructure

    Oct 23, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    The New York Times Magazine took a deep dive into the cost in time, money and lives of not investing in infrastructure. Following a 100-year burst of ingenuity, travel times have been stagnant or worse since the 1970s, despite long commutes being a primary…
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  • Kids Need a Head Start Just to Get to Head Start: Report

    Oct 23, 2023, 12:00 am By George Kevin Jordan
    About 58 percent of qualifying children can’t make it to a Head Start program on transit — making it more likely that they’ll fall behind on critical developmental skills, according to a report from the National Head Start Association and the Civic…
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  • How Air Pollution Intersects with Unsafe Streets

    12:01am By Ruth Kettle-Frisby
    Road vehicles present a serious danger to children’s lives, both physically and physiologically. Cars and trucks can kill or seriously injure young children in an instant, but the particles they produce through tyre wear, brake wear, road surface wear and…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Are E-Biking Away

    12:01am By Blake Aued
    E-bikes aren’t replacing traditional bikes; they’re replacing second cars. (Washington Post) The U.S. Department of Justice is suing eBay for selling illegal “rolling coal” devices that allow climate change deniers to modify their trucks to spew more…
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  • New York’s Green Rideshare Rule is Bad Transportation AND Climate Policy

    12:00am By Charles Komanoff
    Mayor Adams has made a bad decision to waive the de Blasio-era cap on the number of ride-hail vehicles allowed in New York City, so long as the extra cars are electric. Let’s get it straight once and for all: Replacing the existing 78,000 Ubers and Lyfts…
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  • Talking Headways Podcast: Finding Resources to Do Big Things

    Thu 3:21pm By Jeff Wood
    This week we’re joined by Chris Fabian of Resource X to talk about his work on priority-based budgeting. We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas. An edited, partial transcript…
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  • Thursday’s Headlines Are Down but Not Out

    Thu 12:01am By Blake Aued
    Due to stricter federal regulations, air pollution in U.S. cities has been falling for decades, but that decline is slowing, and researchers aren’t sure why. (Bloomberg) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating GM’s Cruise…
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  • White Roads Through Black Bedrooms: How Urban Freeways Cemented Spatial Inequalities

    Thu 12:01am By Zak Yudhishthu
    Urban freeways are having a moment of serious reconsideration. In cities across the country, advocacy groups are taking advantage of reconstruction projects to advance alternatives to fill in, cover, and truncate highways. Researchers have also been releasing…
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  • LA Looks to Approve On-Bus Camera Enforcement Ticketing Drivers Who Park in Bus Lanes

    Oct 18, 2023, 8:05 pm By Joe Linton
    Tomorrow, the Metro Operations Committee is expected to approve Metro on-bus cameras for ticketing drivers who park in bus lanes. Metro is looking to allocate $11 million for its Bus Lane Enforcement Pilot Program [staff report, presentation], including a…
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  • Who Gets Peace and Quiet?: Urban Noise in the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Oct 18, 2023, 12:01 am By Erica D. Walker
    During the COVID-19 stay-at-home advisories of 2020, the world quieted. As a community noise researcher, I felt the changes acutely: the busy road and subway line just outside my apartment window in Brookline, MA, emptied, and the car horns, vehicle engines,…
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  • Wednesday’s Headlines Tax the Rich

    Oct 18, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    SUVs are getting so big that, even with improving efficiency, the average new internal combustion vehicle pollutes more than one purchased 10 years ago, according to a climate group’s study that supports taxing vehicles by weight. And since only the wealthy…
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  • Colorado’s Vehicle Weight Fee Could Tame Megacar Crisis — And Protect Vulnerable Road users

    Oct 18, 2023, 12:00 am By Kea Wilson
    A proposed Colorado law would require the drivers of vehicles that are more likely to kill vulnerable road users to help pay for infrastructure projects to stop pedestrian and cyclist crashes before they happen — while dodging many of the political pitfalls…
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  • Report: Congestion Pricing Will Be a Huge Boost for Transit Workers

    Oct 17, 2023, 1:17 pm By Gersh Kuntzman
    Here are 3.2 billion reason for transit workers to get on board the congestion pricing train. Workers will get $3.2 billion in wages and perks from the $15 billion in capital construction costs that are expected to be funded from the still-to-be-determined…
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  • Tuesday’s Headlines Cut Carbon

    Oct 17, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    The Biden administration’s $6.4 billion Carbon Reduction Program will pay for smaller state projects that get cars off the road. States are required to submit their plans by mid-November. (Stateline) Axios mapped the popularity of bikeshares in various…
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  • The Rise of Bike Lanes in Lima

    Oct 17, 2023, 12:01 am By Vincent Blanqué
    Behind every crisis, there are opportunities for radical changes. The pandemic hit Peru hard, making it one of the countries with the highest death rate per capita. However, in the midst of this adversity, in the capital city of Lima, with buses and taxis…
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  • Crunching the Data on NYC’s Record-Setting Year For Cyclist Deaths

    Oct 17, 2023, 12:01 am By David Meyer
    Traffic crashes in New York City killed more people through the first nine months of 2023 than all but one other year on record — and 94 percent of the victims were killed on street without protected bike lanes, according to a new report from Transportation…
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  • How AI Could Transform Transportation — And Not Just Autonomous Vehicles

    Oct 17, 2023, 12:00 am By Streetsblog
    Artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the U.S. transportation landscape. Beyond headline-grabbing crashes with driverless cars, though, some advocates may not realize how else this rapidly-emerging technology is shaping their…
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  • Monday’s Headlines Put Safety First

    Oct 16, 2023, 12:01 am By Blake Aued
    Automakers could easily make cars less dangerous for pedestrians, but they often choose not to add safety features, and the government isn’t making them. (BBC) The total cost of owning a new car is now more than $12,000 a year, up over $1,000 from last year,…
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