These States Won’t Adopt Even Bare Minimum Roadway Safety Laws
More than 40 states have failed to adopted a series of common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn't bode well for those states' potential to more comprehensively reimagine their approaches to traffic safety.
January 19, 2022
Year In Review 2021: Now For the Good News
This year was not a good one for big wins. But it may go down in history as a critical turning point for our national transportation future.
December 24, 2021
Year In Review 2021: The Bad News
It's time for our year-in-review. Let's get the bad news out of the way first.
December 23, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Dead Men Tell No Tales … in Support of Bike Lanes
Our national treasure cartoonist has noticed that whenever a group of people in a neighborhood expresses support for a bike lane, there's always a revanchist force that claims to have "asked around" and discovered that no one, in fact, wants that bike lane. Here's his take.
December 14, 2021
It’s Our Annual December Donation Drive — and Streetsblog Needs Your Help
Well, this is embarrassing. We're starting our annual donation drive...
December 1, 2021
Wisconsin Car Attack is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
November 24, 2021
And America’s Most Toxic Car Ad Is…
... Chevrolet's 2015 ad for its Colorado pickup truck!
November 22, 2021
Dear Joe: The Electric Hummer is Not the Future
An open letter to the American president that his constant cheerleading for electric mega-cars is not only a bad look, but bad policy.
November 19, 2021
Talking New York High Gas Price Blues
Why are New York lawmakers — and other cold-state Democrats — calling for lower gas and fuel costs ... in an era when low gas and fuel costs have reduced the ability for life to sustain itself on Earth?
November 16, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ad: The Finals!
After thousands of votes and enough eerily empty downtowns to last a life time, Streetsblog readers have narrowed it down to just two of the most toxic car ads in our national history. Vote now for which deserves the title of the most toxic of all.
November 11, 2021
