Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

Yes, we should raise the gas tax, but we must also reform wasteful spending on highway boondoggles. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Priority One: Banish Highway Boondoggles

By John Stout | Jun 1, 2021 | No Comments

We can’t keep pumping new money into a broken system and expect a different result.

Image: J.B. Forbes for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, via Creative Commons

U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report

By Aaron Short | May 26, 2021 | No Comments

The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.

People to Feds: Design Streets Better!

By Jesse Coburn | May 24, 2021 | No Comments

A proposed revision of the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways generated unprecedented public interest.

Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan

By Aaron Short | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.

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Inside the NYC's Historic Congestion Pricing Assessment

By Dave Colon | Apr 13, 2021 | No Comments

The goal of the next step in the approval of congestion pricing is to get a FONSI ("Ayyyyyy").