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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
Now is the Time to Address Safety on State-Owned Roads
Now is the time to prioritize Vision Zero momentum and funding to consider and plan for safety on all roads, regardless of ownership. Here's how.
May 5, 2023
Three Ways DOTs Can Help the Unhoused — On and Off the Road
A new study finds that departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads.
February 23, 2023
How Traffic Engineers Blame You for Their Profession’s Mistakes
Street design and land use are at the root cause of a lot of the traffic safety challenges we see across the country, said one urban planner.
December 16, 2022
Report: State and Federal Officials Are Asleep at the Wheel on AV Safety
"We have concerns about this technology now — not even considering how complex it might someday become," said one report author.
December 6, 2022
Opinion: Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?
We can’t keep using the places that poor people live in as highways for wealthier people to move through quickly.
October 14, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Texas Highway Tangle
Why is there no affordable housing in Austin? The Texas DOT is a big force pushing for sprawl, a journalist finds.
October 6, 2022
Opinion: Safety Fix for Deadly Road Nixed by Harrisburg Mayor Over Parking
In our second Pennsylvania piece today, we look at how the new mayor of Harrisburg has stalled an effort to redesign one of the most dangerous streets in the state amid — you guessed it — complaints about lost parking spaces.
August 8, 2022
What The Proposed GHG Rule Will (And Won’t) Do for the Climate
Federal regulators want local governments to track transportation sector emissions — but they can't do much to force communities to reduce those emissions, never mind doing so in ways that would address the other damages of car dependency, experts say.
July 18, 2022
