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Viva La Tuesday’s Headlines
Want safer streets in the U.S.? Do what France did. Want safer streets in your city? Do what Hoboken did.
June 21, 2022
Monday’s Headlines Are Biking With Biden
President Joe Biden took a spill while biking in Delaware last week. Meanwhile, the UN secretary general had a stark warning about fossil fuels.
June 20, 2022
Friday’s Headlines Are Searching for Equity
Black and brown Americans are in more danger while walking or biking than whites, but enforcement disproportionately harms them as well.
June 17, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines Are Free for Everyone
Boston's Michelle Wu is far from the only mayor to push fare-free transit recently. Plus, ad campaigns that try to shame people into safety rarely work.
June 16, 2022
Op-Ed: Why Decarceration Must Be A Part of Transportation Reform
Transit agencies can move from a policing model that seeks to detain, arrest, and imprison people to a system that carefully considers accessibility, affordability, mental health, public health, reentry, safety, and healing. Here's how.
June 15, 2022
Wednesday’s Headlines Want You Back
With the pandemic winding down, how can transit agencies bring riders back on board? They have plenty of creative ideas.
June 15, 2022
Tuesday’s Headlines Want to Go Back in Time
Nobody blamed pedestrians for their own deaths in the 1920s — except the auto industry, which mounted a successful campaign to change that.
June 14, 2022
Monday’s Headlines Are Charged Up
The Biden administration announced more details about its EV charger network plans. Plus, why are so many pedestrians dying on freeways?
June 13, 2022
Friday’s Headlines Scoot Into the Weekend
E-scooters are back, baby! Plus, guerilla urbanists fight the good fight and West Coast cities and states reconsider parking minimums.
June 10, 2022
Why Nearly A Fifth of Pedestrians Deaths Happen on Freeways — And How to Stop It
A surprising 17 percent of U.S. pedestrian deaths last year happened on roads where people theoretically should never be walking — and that troubling finding should prompt a conversation about why so many of them are doing it anyway.
June 9, 2022
