Five Lessons From Seattle’s Crusade Against Driving
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Seattle is proving that cities can reduce the number of cars on the road and shift its population to rely on mass transit. Here are a few of those lessons.
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Trump Shifts Obama Transit Funding to Roads
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Obama allocated 28 percent of federal grants to transit. It's 8.5 percent under Trump. And funding for bike and pedestrian projects dropped to zero.
Report: Uber’s Software Flaws Led to Fatal Crash
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The self-driving Uber car that killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 was not programmed to identify pedestrians outside of a crosswalk and lacked software that could have spared her life, a federal safety agency said.
Memphis is the Most Dangerous Place to Walk
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But progress on pedestrian safety is moving slowly (unlike Bluff City drivers!).
Schumer Pushes Electric Cars — Here’s Why He’s Wrong
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Message to the senior senator from New York: Electric cars are still cars — and they still suck.
Drivers Get Safety — The Rest of Us Get Slaughtered
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Fatal car crashes are down for the second straight year across the nation — but the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed by motorists are up again, further evidence that cars are getting safer only for people inside the vehicle. According to final 2018 data released today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 36,560 […]