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.
Actually, intercity buses go a lot more places now.
“Strong reforms are necessary in California if we’re going to have public transit agencies that are successful,” says this week’s guest.
Despite the constraints they place on public spaces, the barriers are necessary to protect people from weaponized vehicles.
