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Biden’s First ‘Mega Grants’ Contain Some Mega Wins — And Mega Fails

By Kea Wilson | Feb 6, 2023 | No Comments

A new federal "megagrant" program will fund major safety and transit projects that have been at the top of sustainable transportation advocates' wishlists for years ... along with business-as-usual highway expansion projects that could negate those mega-gains.

The Claiborne Avenue Expressway. Photo: CNU, CC

Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways

By Kea Wilson | Nov 3, 2022 | No Comments

A massive coalition of advocates is calling on the federal Department of Transportation to make sure a historic fund that could tear down harmful urban highways across America isn't used to expand or maintain them instead.

Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate

By Dennis Markatos-Soriano and Mike McGinn | Aug 26, 2022 | No Comments

The amount we drive is a matter of public policy, shaped by land use and transportation policies that underinvest in transit and make walking and biking ever more dangerous. We can flip that starting now.

To Fix Inflation And Climate Change, Get Americans out of Cars

By Eve Kessler | Aug 17, 2022 | No Comments

Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.

These Communities Are Making Progress After ‘Jaywalking’ Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 23, 2022 | No Comments

The Black Lives Matter protests and the pandemic have dramatically shifted the terrain around policing. Here's what happened next.

Tell Secretary Pete that he must regulate such menaces! File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles

By Mike McGinn | Jun 2, 2022 | No Comments

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