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Data: State DOTs Look Nothing Like the Residents They Serve

Why are state DOTs so overwhelmingly white and male — and what impact does it have on road users who don't share those identities?

April 1, 2024

Freeway Fighters: ‘Stop the Highway-Expansion Madness,’ New Coalition Demands

"Endless highway expansions are pulling our country into an environmental, budgetary, and public health crisis," the letter states.

February 6, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: Making DOTs Measure Emissions

Beth Osbourne joins the podcast to chat about the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measure Rule that will make State DOTs and MPOs measure emissions on the federal highway system.

January 18, 2024

States, We Need Your Vision to Get to ‘Zero’

State DOTs play a central role in the safety and sustainability of transportation systems because states set policies. Here are two that do it poorly and two that do it well.

December 26, 2023

List: The States With the Best – And Worst — Transportation Policies

Which states have adopted policies that require their transportation officials to make choices that reduce emissions and make roads more equitable – and which are doing the exact opposite?

November 8, 2023

Cal. DOT “Shakeup” Is a Bad Sign

Why was one of Caltrans' most staunch advocates for sanity within Caltrans "reassigned"?

September 19, 2023

Did Minnesota Just Release the Best Statewide Transportation Bill Yet?

Minnesota's new state transportation financing and policy bill reads like a sustainable transportation advocates' holiday wishlist. How did they get there— and could it be a model for other communities, too?

July 18, 2023

Talking Headways Podcast: Undoing Autocentric Design in a Michigan City

A Michigan city tries to undo the mistakes of the past. It's hard.

June 8, 2023

The Debt Ceiling Deal Could Be Bad News For Freeway Fighters

A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would "gut" key elements of the nation's bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default, advocates warn, and could make it easier for highway-building agencies to expedite road projects that harm vulnerable communities for generations.

June 2, 2023