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Tuesday’s Headlines Read Rapidly
Bloomberg reports on a new type of transit called rapid regional rail that is faster than light rail but stops as frequently as a subway.
July 9, 2024
Monday’s Modest Headlines
A new online atlas looking at nine metrics for sustainable transit shows that it's not the size of the system that matters, it's how many people it serves.
July 8, 2024
Friday’s Headlines Spark Fireworks
Happy Fourth of July! Housing and transit writer Darrell Owens ponders why so few Americans seem to care about all the deaths caused by cars and drivers.
July 5, 2024
Friday Video: How Ghent Gets Kids To School Without Cars
This Belgian city has found a better way to get students to class — and they have some lessons to share with America.
July 5, 2024
Wednesday’s Headlines Believe in Monsters
And so does the CEO of Ford. That's how he described some vehicles while calling for a shift to smaller EVs as pedestrian deaths remain high.
July 3, 2024
Opinion: America’s Traffic Death Epidemic is a Public Health Emergency. The Surgeon General Should Treat It Like One.
Traffic violence claims almost as many lives as gun violence. So why hasn't the surgeon general declared it a public health emergency?
July 2, 2024
Tuesday’s Headlines Reign Supreme
The Biden administration could see many of its climate change rules, including restricting tailpipe emissions, reversed after the Supreme Court limited the extent to which federal agencies can interpret laws.
July 2, 2024
Monday’s Headlines Are Overflowing
Lots of news today, from a slew of U.S. DOT grants to an Uber and Lyft settlement in Massachusetts to a major Red Line announcement.
July 1, 2024
Friday’s Headlines Stretch Our Legs
A decline in pedestrian deaths seems like good news, but A) they're still really high, and B) it might be because people aren't walking as much.
June 28, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Post-Peaky Transit
Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute on the impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, "activity centers" and transit usage.
June 27, 2024
