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June 6, 2023
3,000 out of 3,001 Americans Want to Decarbonize Transportation — But Will the GOP Do It?
By a roughly 3,000-to-1 ratio Americans agree that states should be required to better track their transportation-sector greenhouse gas emissions to lead to reducing them.
October 18, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: Road Violence is a Public Health Crisis that Needs Public Health Solutions
Traffic violence is one of the leading causes of death by unintentional injury and premature death in the United States, and Los Angeles is no outlier in this tragic trend.
October 17, 2022
Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House
Gabe Klein, a former Chicago and D.C. transportation agency leader — and a Streetsblog NYC and USA board member — has been chosen by “Electric” Joe Biden to head the administration’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation.
September 20, 2022
OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles
The trend toward larger, more-menacing vehicles is so long-standing and ubiquitous that you might think we don’t have a choice in the matter. Well, we do.
June 2, 2022
NO SURPRISE: Feds Report Double-Digit Increase in Road Deaths in 2021
Call it the forgotten pandemic: road fatalities surged by double-digit percentages, including a significant increase in deaths outside of cars, in 2021, according to a new report issued Tuesday by federal authorities.
May 18, 2022
For Pete’s Sake! Sec. Buttigieg Won’t Push Back on States that Ignore Equity, Climate Guidelines
Buttigieg reportedly told a key committee that he wants to be a good partner with states that have nonetheless rejected the Biden administration’s equity agenda on transportation funding.
March 1, 2022
What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?
We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.
May 3, 2021
State Senator Pushing ‘Idaho Stop’ Legalization Bill
An upstate State Senator has introduced a bill that would allow cyclists to slow-roll through stop signs and go through red lights after a quick full stop.
January 11, 2021
Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways
The USDOT pick says he’ll reverse decades of discriminatory planning by expanding public transit and, most important, dismantling urban freeways.
December 23, 2020
