The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
As much of the country is blanketed in snow (or frozen-over ‘snowcrete’ like we’re seeing here in New York City), Kea Wilson writes about how shoveling safe walkways is a radical act of community care in a time where our federal government is actively clawing back funds for life-saving infrastructure and searching for pretexts to rip out existing bike lanes.
Check out Kea’s essay and more news headlines in the links below.
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.”
