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Fed Safety Administrator: Let’s Legalize the ‘Idaho Stop’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments

One of the Biden Administration's top road safety officials has come out in favor of legalizing the so-called "Idaho stop," which allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as mere stops signs.

This stretch of I-375 is like a scar in Detroit. The Biden administration is encouraging change.

Feds Using Freight Program Money to Tear Down a Detroit Highway

By Aaron Short | Sep 22, 2022 | No Comments

“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.

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Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 20, 2022 | No Comments

Gabe Klein, a former Chicago and D.C. transportation agency leader — and a Streetsblog NYC and USA board member — has been chosen by “Electric” Joe Biden to head the administration’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was established by the bipartisan infrastructure bill and will hand out $7.5 billion in funding for the coming EV charging network.

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Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

Fed Safety Administrator: Let’s Legalize the ‘Idaho Stop’

Feds Using Freight Program Money to Tear Down a Detroit Highway

Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House

Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications

The US, Where Road Violence is a National Crisis, Wants to Advise Other Countries On Road Safety

Four Things Advocates Need to Know About the ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program