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What Toronto Learned By Giving Its Streetcar Its Own Lane
You can move more people in crowded cities when you get cars out of the way of more efficient modes — like transit.
April 5, 2019
How Driving is Encouraged and Subsidized — By Law
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.
March 6, 2019
Is Subprime Auto Lending the Next Housing Bubble?
Low-income people are increasingly being trapped in a cycle of debt by subprime auto lending. The American transportation system offers them few alternatives.
February 13, 2019
R.I. Takes Biking/Walking Funds for Highways
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.
January 31, 2019
New House Transportation Chair: ‘We Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel’
Peter Defazio, the new chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, talks bikes, pedestrians and transit — and getting us off fossil fuel.
January 29, 2019
Engineering Group Takes on High Speed Limits
One barrier to safer, more pedestrian friendly streets is slowing being dismantled.
January 18, 2019
Can New Mobility Tech Disrupt Car Dependence?
A new organization want to help cities use mobility tech to break cars' stranglehold on cities.
January 15, 2019
Ford to Citizens: Don’t Drop Dead
Automaker says high-tech gizmos in new cars will save lives — but no one really believes that.
January 9, 2019
Lack of Housing Hurts Workers More Than Traffic
Living near jobs in the first place is much more advantageous for workers than having access to free-flowing highways, new research finds.
September 17, 2018
A Carbon Tax Could Recoup Trump’s MPG Standards Cut
All told, a carbon tax would suppress carbon dioxide emissions eight times as much as the mileage freeze will elevate them.
August 6, 2018
