Lowering Speed Limits Will Help Stop COVID-19
Hospitals are about to be overwhelmed with virus patients. Let's not strain our health care system any more — we need to reduce speed limits now.
March 16, 2020
Big Data Could Revolutionize Transportation. Is That a Good Thing?
Most of us are already sharing our location with private corporations almost every day. Could we use that data for good — or do we need to fight Big Brother?
March 13, 2020
Streetsblog 101: How Pop Culture Stigmatizes Public Transit
Have you ever noticed that almost any time characters ride a bus or a train in a movie, they...kinda hate it?
March 12, 2020
America is Spending Billions Just to Make Traffic Worse
Induced demand isn't news to Streetsblog readers. But a new report from Transportation for America illustrates exactly how stupid lane widenings really are.
March 11, 2020
Op-Ed: Every City Should Try This Innovative Way To Fund Transit
When the city builds a train line or a bus route, adjacent property values sky rocket. Why shouldn't the public benefit from that phenomenon — and use that money to expand transit more?
March 9, 2020
Bird Hatches an Electric Moped — and Big Questions
The shared scooter/bike giant is adding a new vehicle to its fleet, starting with Austin.
March 6, 2020
Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture
Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don't have to.
March 5, 2020
Would You Trade Your Parking Benefit for Cash?
The DC Council voted unanimously Tuesday for a bill that would allow employees to “cash-out” free parking offered by their employer. The bill would let employees who receive free parking instead take the value in cash for transit, bicycling, or walking.
March 4, 2020
Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer
It's tunnel vision! Lawmakers in New York are looking to Seattle for advice on how to fix a crumbling highway — but the Emerald City's experiment with a highway tunnel is no model. Here's why.
March 4, 2020
Auto Right-of-Way Laws Are Where America Went Wrong
Before the widespread adoption of the automobile, every road user had to think critically about whose turn it was to go — and a pedestrian in a car's path *always* meant the driver had to stand down.
March 3, 2020
