The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Today’s newsletter brings you Kea Wilson’s take on a new study that analyzed the emotional reactions of thousands of volunteers to a trove of Google Street View images from 56 cities around the world — and found that streets described as “boring,” “depressing,” and “lively” correlated tightly with how many car crashes involving vulnerable road users actually happened where those photos were taken.
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.”
