Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.
January 14, 2021
Could Augmented Reality Windshields End Distracted Driving?
If a new style of head-up design works as designed, cars will be safer.
January 13, 2021
Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates To Push for Better City Arterials
As Parisians celebrate a new plan to pedestrianize the Champs-Élysées and cut car traffic in half, Americans street safety advocates demand redesigns for their own cities' dangerous downtown arteries.
January 12, 2021
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
January 11, 2021
Study: E-Taxis Increase Private Car Ownership in Many Cities
"Ride-hailing" apps once lauded for their potential to help end private car ownership are actually increasing it in many cities, a new study finds.
January 8, 2021
US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
The 18th Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced her resignation following a violent riot at the nation's capitol by predominantly white Trump supporters that went largely unchecked by law enforcement for hours, reminding many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.
January 7, 2021
Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Seating
When we talk about increasing access to sustainable transportation, many street safety advocates fail to talk about placing benches with anywhere near the fervor with which we talk laying train track or building bike lanes. That needs to change.
January 7, 2021
Georgia Senate Wins Put Major Transportation Reform Within Reach
Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
January 6, 2021
Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops
A new Virginia law will prohibit police from utilizing one of the most outrageous pretexts to harass people of color: walking in the street outside of a designated crosswalk.
January 4, 2021
Goodbye to 2020, a Truly Unimaginable Year for Sustainable Transportation
What a crazy year — but if we take a moment to look back and think about all that happened in 2020, we might find ourselves finally ready to seize the sustainable transportation future.
December 30, 2020
