Talking Headways Podcast: What Sports Teams Bring (and Don’t Bring) to Cities
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There are both benefits — and pitfalls — from stadium deals.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Tax Policy
Two Big Reasons States Keep Expanding Freeways
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Highway widening advocates offer up a kind of manifest destiny storyline: population and traffic are ever-increasing, and unless we accommodate them we’ll be awash in cars, traffic and gridlock. The rising tide of cars is treated as a irresistible force of nature. But is it?
Electric Bicycle Incentives Go Local, But Feds Can Do More
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Unfortunately, federal leaders still have a ways to go — many legislators have yet to acknowledge the e-bike’s demonstrated ability to replace car trips.
How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality
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Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.
Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure
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This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.
Study: A Road Pricing Scheme That Actually Cuts Driving
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Participants in a study who received cash for choosing modes of transport that are most beneficial to society ended up driving far less than study participants who did not get the reward — a finding that suggests that the U.S. could reduce many car trips if existing auto-centric incentives were altered.