The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
TGIF, Streetsbloggers! We had some technical difficulties yesterday, so this edition of our morning roundup newsletter features everything you may have missed from Thursday, including Thursday’s headlines.
Especially of note is Kea Wilson’s warning of the incoming “demographic time bomb” as Baby Boomers age out of driving — and America needs to act particularly fast and embrace solutions to the converging crises that decenter cars.
Plus: The latest episode of Talking Headways features a conversation with the author of The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been.
Dig in to all the news ahead of a long weekend — get your fill, and we’ll see you Tuesday!
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
“Affordable travel is not a fallback. It is what makes broad mobility possible.”
Dabney Sanders explains how Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway came together.
The best way to celebrate the nation’s birthday might not be a road trip to a national treasure; it might be just a few steps outside your front door.
The first draft of a new infrastructure bill could be worse, but leaves much to be desired.
