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Report: Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options

\Researchers at UC Davis have found that more than half of ride-hail trips in California replace walking, biking, carpooling, and public transit trips, or are trips that otherwise wouldn't happen. They have ideas to make it more sustainable.

August 30, 2024

Damn the Torpedoes, Friday’s Headlines Are Ahead

David Zipper has a long read in Slate about the history of freeway construction and how it compares to dams.

August 30, 2024

Friday Video: How (and Why) To Paint a Ghost Bike

Roadside memorials can make the human costs of our traffic violence crisis visible — at least until someone tears them down. That's why filmmaker made it his mission to restore two ghost bikes that had vanished from Boston roads.

August 30, 2024

Media Critique: Labor Day Traffic Coverage Ignores Trains

Recent coverage of the Labor Day weekend travel crush fails to mention rail services.

August 29, 2024

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: CalBike Interviews Wes Marshall

There is nothing that says you have to design for the peak or for 20 years from now. It’s a choice we’re making.

August 29, 2024

More Safe School Streets Coming To NYC This Fall

A record number of school "open streets" will operate across the city when the school year starts next week, officials said.

August 29, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: The Real Work of Safe Streets

Oakland City Council candidate Warren Logan on how people perceive government works, and the need for more flexible housing and streets policies.

August 29, 2024

Philly Advocates Score Initial Win In Fight for Safer Bike Lanes

The death of Dr. Barbara Friedes is spurring change on the Philadelphia road where she was killed while biking – and hopefully, elsewhere in the City of Brotherly Love, too.

August 29, 2024

Thursday’s Headlines Better Never Than Late

A bunch of road projects that were stalled for lack of funding are moving now thanks to the Biden administration...including a lot of highway expansions.

August 29, 2024

Plugging Away: New York City Gets Big Biden Bucks for More EV Fueling Stations at the Curb

The city has won a $15-million grant to install hundreds more electric car chargers in the curbside lane, preventing any other use of that space for generations.

August 29, 2024