Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cars

Vehicle-Into-Building Crashes 40% Higher Than Previously Thought

By Kea Wilson | Jun 21, 2022 | No Comments

U.S. drivers ram their cars into buildings about 100 times every single day, according to revised new estimates – and while that's 40 more daily collisions than previously thought, some experts suspect it may still be an undercount.

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OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles

By Mike McGinn | Jun 2, 2022 | No Comments

Join these campaigns and send a message to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

D.C. SUV Owners Will Finally Pay Much More to Drive Such Behemoths

By Aaron Short | May 27, 2022 | No Comments

The era of big government vehicle is over.

Talking Headways Podcast: A Next-Generation Transportion Policy

By Jeff Wood | May 5, 2022 | No Comments

What's next? Harriet Tregoning, director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, talk about their report, "Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy."

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THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds

By Eve Kessler | May 4, 2022 | No Comments

Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes, proving again that it's death, not redemption, that's beneath a dirty hood.

Post-Pandemic Period Proves Perilous to Pedestrians

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 7, 2022 | No Comments

The decade-long pedestrian death crisis has worsened, with a double-digit percentage increase in deaths caused by U.S. drivers — and experts are blaming it on speeding, distracted driving, larger vehicles and roads that prioritize car drivers over everyone else.

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