Month: August 2025
Basics
Tuesday’s Headlines Smile, You’re on Candid Camera
Automated traffic enforcement cameras are easy to hate, until you start looking at how much they make streets safer.
August 5, 2025
Trump’s Transportation ‘Funding Freeze’ Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg, GAO Says
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was slow to get money out the door even before the current president threw the process into chaos. This must change.
August 4, 2025
Monday’s Headlines Hit the Beach
North America needs more coastal bikeways like those in European beach towns, David Zipper writes in CityLab.
August 4, 2025
Bus Rapid Transit Can Work … If Cities Follow the Formula
It sure beats the current method of guessing or simply basing the route on how strongly a given neighborhood opposes or supports it.
August 1, 2025
Friday Video: We’re All Paying For ‘Free’ Parking, Whether Or Not We Drive
Parking mandates aren't the only reason why your city has so much asphalt. Check out the hidden reason why so many businesses build way more parking than they need.
August 1, 2025
Friday’s Headlines Take It Back
Apparently transportation can be too "woke." Plus, only cities can save us from climate change now, and more headlines.
August 1, 2025
Opinion: Ohio is the Poster Child for Why We Need a Stronger Federal Approach to Passenger Rail
Ohio's reluctance to build new passenger rail has made them a bottleneck in the national network, and an emblem of bigger national problem.
August 1, 2025
