The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
TGIF, my dear Streetsblog readers! But because we can’t just roll (or walk) into the weekend without getting a little mad first, take a moment to read today’s news headlines: The $16 billion tunnel under the Hudson River that would speed up trains along the whole east coast is “terminated,” according to President Trump. But nobody really knows what that means, since the project was already paused?
Plus: Kea Wilson takes a look at a new study that found how automatic emergency braking systems are still struggling to see pedestrians in the dark conditions where people are most likely to die — and, in some cases, wearing hi-viz clothing could actually make the tech less likely to spot a person walking at night.
And we also have another piece from the Vision Zero Cities journal, this time about how fire departments can collaborate with communities to fight traffic violence.
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.
