Recent Streetsblog USA posts about DOT

THE BRAKE: Should Cities Train Their Own Transportation Advocates?

By Streetsblog | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

On this week's podcast, we explore why it's so hard to get a new crosswalk — for both the citizen and the transportation professional at the other end of the request.

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Support For Camera Enforcement Increases When Put in Racial Justice Context, Study Finds

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 25, 2022 | No Comments

Researchers hope the results can increase support nationwide for swapping out cops for cameras, effective tools at keeping reckless drivers off the road and reducing fatal and injury-causing crashes.

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CYCLE OF RAGE: New York City’s ‘Car-Free Earth Day’ is a Sad Joke

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 3, 2022 | No Comments

Once again, we learn that our elected officials can't be bothered to even do the least they could do.

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OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air

By Richard Robbins | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.

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Analysis: NYC’s Speed Cameras Aren’t Racist — But the City’s Road Design Is

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 14, 2022 | No Comments

Speed cameras are not disproportionately concentrated in low-income communities of color, despite a pervasive belief that the cameras are a money-making ploy that unfairly target Black and Brown neighborhoods, a Streetsblog analysis reveals.

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Does NYC Have the 'Best' Transit System in the World?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 19, 2022 | No Comments

An otherwise unrelated press conference veers into shaky territory for the new mayor.

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