The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Welcome back to Monday.
Today’s top story is from Kea Wilson, who discusses the killing of Renee Nicole Good through the frame of automobility: When do the powerful ignore traffic violence in the interest in keeping cars moving, or selectively decide that the threat of automotive violence is an acceptable pretext for other kinds of deadly force?
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.”
