Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Transportation engineering

THE BRAKE: Are Would-Be Planners and Engineers on Board With Transportation Reform?

By Streetsblog | Jun 28, 2022 | No Comments

Planning and engineering students are poised to play a major role in shaping America's transportation system for decades. But do they agree with sustainable transportation advocates about what that future should look like?

Talking Headways Podcast: Reimagining Sustainable Cities

By Jeff Wood | Jan 27, 2022 | No Comments

We talk to Tina Rosan and Stephen Wheeler about how we can design our cities and our government to be fairer.

I-65 crossing the Ohio River at Louisville. Photo: Trimarc

Opinion: Louisville’s ‘Fix’ for Traffic Congestion Shows the Irrationality of Drivers

By Joe Cortright | Nov 18, 2021 | No Comments

Two states spent $1 billion doubling the size of I-65, only to have half as many people use the bridge. Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter folly of highway expansions.

Talking Headways Podcast: No More Transit Hunger Games

By Jeff Wood | Jul 29, 2021 | No Comments

This week Dan Baer, senior vice president at WSP, talks with Kevin Corbett, president and CEO of New Jersey Transit. In this one-on-one conversation, Baer and Corbett talk about NJ Transit’s response to the pandemic, bus electrification, new technologies, and much more.

Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars

By Jeff Wood | Jul 22, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, director of design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill.

DESTINY THOMAS: Urbanism is Complicit in Racism

By Destiny Thomas | Jul 27, 2020 | No Comments

Municipal placemaking has long been an active effort to displace and erase Black people — and it is time to begin a process for atonement, says Destiny Thomas in an exclusive op-ed for Streetsblog.

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