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Like a lot of U.S. politicians, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't exactly known for getting around on public transportation. Image: Streetsblog NYC.

Opinion: Why Every Elected Should Ride The Bus

By Josh Cohen | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

While local officials debate the best ways to improve their respective transit systems, the truth is that most of them lack a real-world perception of their own local transit systems.

Image: Chuck Kennedy via PFA/Creative Commons

Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support Asphalt 'Right-Sizing'

By Kea Wilson | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.

Young Marvin Anderson watches the destruction of his neighborhood to make way for I-94. More than half a century later, he's leading an effort to rebuild some of what the historically Black Rondo region lost. Courtesy: Reconnect Rondo

Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.

Your city can't sell a road to the next town over when it needs a little cash. So why do our municipal accounting standards count highways as "assets"? Advocates say it's time to fix that. Image: Jay Galvin via Creative Commons

Why We Need To Stop Calling Auto-Centric Roads ‘Assets’

By Joe Minicozzi | Feb 18, 2021 | No Comments

Your city can't sell a road to the next town over when it needs a little cash. So why do our municipal accounting standards count highways as "assets"? Advocates say it's time to fix that. Image: Jay Galvin via Creative Commons

The Reason More Women Drivers Die in Car Crashes

By Kea Wilson | Feb 16, 2021 | No Comments

Women drivers are more likely to die in crashes because the male drivers who hit them are more likely to be driving trucks and SUVs, a new study finds.

This Maryland highway is wide enough already — and expanding it even more would only exacerbate the region's problems. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Opinion: Hogan Wrong on Highway Expansion

By Eyal Li | Feb 15, 2021 | No Comments

It is time for Maryland to shed obsolete highway-focused traffic solutions, and pursue alternative strategies that give residents more, and cleaner, choices for how to get around.

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