The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Welcome back to the working week as we enter the dog days of summer.
Today’s newsletter brings you a deeper look at new report from the nation’s top government watchdog: The Government Accountability Office found that as of April 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation had yet to sign formal agreements for a stunning 41 percent of the funding promised to communities under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which provides the baseline federal funding for America’s entire surface transportation network.
Read Kea Wilson’s analysis and all of today’s headlines below:
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.
