Plus: Gersh Kuntzman takes a look at a new report that throws cold water on the gains won from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. President Joe Biden said that the bill would represent “the most significant investment in passenger rail in the past 50 years and in public transit ever” … but instead that increase in spending is concentrated among highway projects.
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.
“Affordable travel is not a fallback. It is what makes broad mobility possible.”
