Today’s Headlines

Human beings generally don't like being forced to do anything, so Grist wonders whether policies like car bans could actually be counterproductive?

Blake Aued

January 12, 2026

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have been brutalizing and killing people who they perceive as threats. Is mass automobility multiplying their pretext to do it?

Kea Wilson

January 12, 2026

"We're not going to fix decades of inequitable investment in one year, and things like the high-frequency bus network and the Red Line Extension are really important, but the work isn't done."

Widening a highway to cure congestion is like losing weight by buying bigger pants — but thanks to the same principle of "induced demand," adding bike paths and train lines to cure climate actually works.

Kea Wilson

January 9, 2026

To paraphrase former New York City mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan, the car payment is too damn high.

Young professionals discuss the work they’ve been doing including designing new transportation hubs, rethinking parking and improving buses.

Jeff Wood

January 8, 2026