The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
This morning’s newsletter brings you an article from the Urban Institute’s Yonah Freemark, who dives into the funding problems (and proposed solutions) for the Highway Trust Fund. Specifically, the Trump administration is proposing to reduce spending on public transportation projects and prevent states from “flexing” federal highway funds to assist their transit agencies.
Plus: An op-ed from Jack Keith on his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, where he questions what kind of place makes us more free: the car-dominated city or the transit-rich metropolis?
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.”
