The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Welcome back after the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Today’s top story is a republish of StreetsblogNYC alum Jesse Coburn’s most recent investigation for Pro Publica, where he found that in Trump’s second term, the USDOT opened 50-percent fewer investigations into vehicle safety defects, concluded 83-percent fewer enforcement cases against trucking and bus companies and started 58-percent fewer pipeline enforcement cases compared with the same period in the Biden administration.
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.
