The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Welcome back to the working week! Here in a snowy New York, we’re thinking about how New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to reduce car insurance premiums is propaganda designed to protect the wealthy insurance industry from scrutiny and deny injured people full legal recourse. In our latest reporting on the push, Streetsblog NYC spoke to the lawyers who represent crash victims about how this proposal would change the equation for victims.
Plus: The largest categorial of American “bike lanes” are little more than lines of paint at the edges of deadly roads — and that lack ofquality infrastructure is keeping many would-be riders out of the saddle, a new study confirms.
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.”
