The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Heading into the weekend, we have a slate of national transportation and safe-streets news for you:
First, a look at how the DC-area transit system WMATA is going all-in on buses.
Then, the latest episode of Talking Headways, which features a conversation about what ‘Reclaiming the Road’ looks like beyond just advocating for complete streets.
We also have a dispatch from California, and the federal fight over high-speed rail.
More on transit and passenger rail’s slow recovery from the pandemic.
How did parking lots swallow one of America’s hottest cities — and make it even hotter?
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.”
