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Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How To Stop a Highway
Editor’s Note: A version of this article will appear in Transportation Alternatives’s Vision Zero Cities Journal as part of the 2021 Vision Zero Cities Conference, Oct. 20-22, including walking and...
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OP-ED: New Fed Road Guide Enshrines Danger into Law
This piece first appeared on The Urbanist and is reprinted here with permission. Scott Brody Shortly before former President Trump left office, the Federal Highway Administration proposed an update to...
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USDOT Pressures States To Spend New Infrastructure Funds Sustainably
It’s our annual December donation drive. Please give from the heart (and wallet!) by clicking here. Thanks. For the first time, U.S. DOT will actively pressure states to spend their federal...
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Houston Advocates Slam TxDOT For ‘Deliberately’ Ignoring Highway’s Racist...
It’s our annual December donation drive. Please give from the heart (and wallet!) by clicking here. Thanks. The Texas Department of Transportation is allegedly threatening retaliation against the whole...
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How Automakers Can Stop Humans from Over-Relying on Automated Safety Tech
Automakers aren’t doing enough to ensure that drivers are ready to take over if their vehicles’ self-driving features make mistakes, an auto-industry group argues, re-igniting a debate about who should...
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Feds Throw Wrench Into Oregon Highway Widening
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on BikePortland.org and is republished with permission. Read Streetsblog USA’s previous coverage of the Rose Quarter expansion project here. Much to the...
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New Fed. Law Requires Some (But Not All!) States to Improve Bike/Walk Safety
A slate of new guidelines will encourage all states to spend their federal safety dollars on protecting vulnerable road users, while requiring some to do it based on a new rule buried in the Bipartisan...
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How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality
Editor’s note: This post first appeared on Inequality.org and is republished with permission. For decades, the federal government has allocated about four times as much funding to roadways as it has...
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For Pete’s Sake! Sec. Buttigieg Won’t Push Back on States that Ignore Equity,...
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will reportedly take a conciliatory tone at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, telling a key committee that he wants to be a good partner with...
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USDOT Tackles Overlooked Barriers to ‘Complete Streets’— And Sparks Debate
No “complete streets” policy will truly be complete until federal agencies dismantle the systems that make it so hard to build safe transportation networks in the first place — but some advocates think...
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Road Deaths Rise — Again! — As Post-Quarantine Period Proves Particularly...
The decade-long pedestrian death crisis has worsened, with a double-digit percentage increase in deaths caused by U.S. drivers — and experts are blaming it on speeding, distracted driving, larger...
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A back door deal: Land transfer to facilitate driving to O’Hare from west is...
In this age of climate change and high gas prices, Chicago needs to focus on making it easier for people to get where they need to go without a car. So why did the City Council recently approve a land...
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NYC Congestion Pricing Moves Ahead as MTA Answers Feds’ 400 Technical Questions
That’s one roadblock lifted. MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber announced on Wednesday that the agency had finally answered the hundreds of technical questions that the Federal Highway Administration...
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Bad Road Design Is Stoking the U.S. Pedestrian Death Crisis: Report
America’s pedestrian death crisis has been linked to bigger cars, more driving and pandemic anxieties, but it all starts with bad design, a new report shows. Smart Growth America’s annual, “Dangerous...
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What The Proposed GHG Rule Will (And Won’t) Do for the Climate
Federal regulators want state and local government to start tracking their transportation sector emissions — but because of Congress’s flawed infrastructure law, they can’t do much to force communities...
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Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications
After one failed attempt, a successful two-year street fight, two and a half years of federal shenanigans, public comment from residents of 28 area counties and five native American tribes, hundreds of...
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Rest In Pieces, ‘Fix-it-First’: Biden Caves to GOP’s Highway Expansion Obsession
The Biden administration has caved to GOP pressure and will no longer push states to repair existing highways before building new ones, a move that angered livable cities advocates and rewarded the...
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‘Secretary Pete Can’t Save You’: FHWA OKs Houston Highway Expansion After Pause
One of America's most infamous highway expansion projects is steamrolling ahead after a civil rights lawsuit brought it to a two-year pause — and experts say it’s unlikely to be stopped again unless...
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Biden’s Electric Vehicle Charging Initiative is Simply Not Going to Solve...
The Biden administration wants to erect a multi-billion dollar network of charging hubs for electric vehicles, but advocates warn the country can’t drive its way out of the climate crisis, whether cars...
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MTA Offers Funding for Bronx Clean-Up to Get Congestion Pricing Over the Line
The MTA has told the federal government that it it will pay spend tens of millions to mitigate possible air-quality impacts from congestion pricing in the Bronx and other neighborhoods, according to a...
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