NTSB Chair on Vision Zero and the Safety Problems of Heavy EVs
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"We have to be careful that we aren’t also creating unintended consequences: more death on our roads."
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Trucks
Essay: Sarah Langenkamp Shouldn’t Have Died Because She Loved Biking
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"We can certainly turn around our deadly trends. Sarah, other victims, and so many families mourning this holiday season deserve at least as much."
Opinion: The Real Reason Why Americans Keep Buying SUVs
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Urbanists often see SUV purchases as an unnecessarily individualistic expression of decadence, but perhaps we might start to see this reaction as a personal strategy to mitigate a developmental priority that promotes exclusivity.
How Surging Pickup and SUV Sales Are Undermining Carbon Reductions From EVs
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In spite of rapidly growing sales, EVs have not yet measurably cut carbon. The reason why? A lack of meaningful regulations around megacars.
OPINION: Congestion Pricing Will Bring Cleaner Air for All
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The key to ensuring safer, more reliable, efficient, and accessible public transit, as well as cleaner air, less traffic congestion, and safer roads, is through a swift implementation of congestion pricing.
‘We’re Luring Bicyclists To Their Deaths’: Husband of Diplomat Killed While Cycling Turns Anguish Into Advocacy
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The husband of a U.S. diplomat who survived an evacuation from war-torn Ukraine only to be killed in a car crash as she biked on a Maryland road is raising money to stop other families from having to endure similar tragedies — and urging the public to reckon with an epidemic of traffic violence that's left his children without a mother.