Midwest Will Raise Gas Taxes — And Make Everything Worse
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If Midwest states shovel billions more into highway widenings (likely), it could just increase maintenance costs and further undermine their cities.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Car Dependence
How Driving is Encouraged and Subsidized — By Law
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Greg Shill, a law professor, attempted to itemize all the ways driving is legally favored in the U.S. Let's just say it's a long list.
Car-Centric Transportation Policies are Driving Us to Ruin
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Low-income people are increasingly being trapped in a cycle of debt by subprime auto lending. The American transportation system offers them few alternatives.
R.I. Takes Biking/Walking Funds for Highways
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Almost one dozen biking and walking projects across the state of Rhode Island are in jeopardy after a state agency decided to transfer $27 million in federal money dedicated to active transportation to highways and administrative expenses over the next 10 years.
Biking Way up in Seattle During Highway Closure
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Biking has almost doubled along major corridors in Seattle as the city enters the fourth day of “Viadoom” — the highly publicized closure of State Route 99. Viadoom — or the “period of maximum constraint,” as city officials have called it was billed as a potentially paralyzing traffic nightmare. Monday began the three week period when […]
Can New Mobility Tech Disrupt Car Dependence?
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A new organization want to help cities use mobility tech to break cars' stranglehold on cities.