Friday’s Headlines to Close it Out
By Blake Aued | | No Comments
It's funny how many people try to make environmentalism out to be an effete elitist cause when the benefits are disportionately conferred to groups that have been traditionally oppressed. Plus all the other news.
Opinion: Why Every Elected Should Ride The Bus
By Josh Cohen | | No Comments
While local officials debate the best ways to improve their respective transit systems, the truth is that most of them lack a real-world perception of their own local transit systems.
Talking Headways Podcast: City Legibility and Wayfinding
By Jeff Wood | | No Comments
A podcast on why it's important to sometimes get lost.
Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support Asphalt 'Right-Sizing'
By Kea Wilson | | No Comments
The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.
Thursday’s Headlines For You And Yours
By Blake Aued | | No Comments
The Trump administration failed to investigate a whistleblower report on US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao. Plus all the other news.
Food + Mobility Justice Advocates Join Forces
By Sharon Hoyer | | No Comments
Speakers discussed the relationship between safe conditions for pedestrians and good transit access with food security and nutrition.
Four Bills Could Help Break the Car Culture
By Kea Wilson | | No Comments
The next infrastructure package might bring some of sustainable transportation advocates' most long-sought bills back to life — and establish new pots of money for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more.
Wednesday’s Headlines as We Hit Midweek
By Blake Aued | | No Comments
Republicans and Democrats play let's make a deal over infrastructure. Plus all the other news to start your day.
How COVID Impacts Transit Workers in CHI
By Igor Studenkov | | No Comments
During the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1,874 Chicago area transit workers tested positive for the disease, at least 14 had to be hospitalized and at least 14 passed away.
How the Dutch Do Winter Bike Lane Maintenance
By Stephen Kurz | | No Comments
If a snowy winter is guaranteed year after year, not budgeting for proper winter maintenance for all modes of transportation, then using winter as an excuse for not being able to implement high quality bicycle infrastructure is like refusing to buy apples and then complaining you can’t make applesauce.
Tuesday’s Headlines that You Just Gotta Love
By Blake Aued | | No Comments
The freeways that destroyed and divided Black communities when they were built in the 1960s are starting to crumble, fueling activists who want to have them removed. (CNN) Skepticism in the Biden administration and a lack of ballot access outside California will make it tough for Uber and Lyft to expand Prop 22-style labor legislation […]