We’re in Good Hands With Allstate
Above: A message from Allstate, the company that recently stopped renewing New York City home insurance policies due to the increasing risk of global warming-induced hurricanes. Spotted on Broadway near 9th Street.
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Today’s Headlines
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LaHood joins auto insurer to kick off new campaign educating teenagers about distracted driving (DOT Blog, Allstate Press) Who’s to blame for the now-undetermined delay in the Senate climate change bill: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) or Lindsey Graham (R-SC)? (MoJones, TNR, NPR) Digging deeper into the recent reports of a significant uptick in New […]
Millennials Unhappily Stuck in their Parents’ Transportation System
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In a new survey, Millennials report fairly high dissatisfaction with driving, but they are mostly without alternatives.
Thursday’s Headlines: Pre-Fourth of July Edition
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More and more transit systems are getting back to normal service. Plus other news, including a massive House transportation bill, opposition to a highway widening in Portland, and the ups and downs of bike share.
Tell Us About Your “Commuter Idyll”
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Before I became your editor here at Streetsblog Capitol Hill, I was a reporter for WTOP, the DC area’s “most-listened-to” radio station. Its traffic reports “on the 8s” helped feed my ire toward auto-centrism – they wasted one out of every 10 minutes of airtime on an unintelligible litany of route numbers and exits. Meanwhile, […]
The Moment the U.S. DOT Abandoned U.S. Walkers
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Federal transportation officials have never done much to center the needs of pedestrians in their policies or funding decisions. But in 2012, things took a turn for the even worse.