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The UNC Chapel Hill analysis with the provocative title “Roundabouts Are For Rich People” recently found that the circular intersection design that reduces injury crashes by 80 percent was disproportionately sited in wealthy neighborhoods. And transportation officials can change those patterns of inequity by being more proactive about safety city-wide, Kea Wilson reports.
Check out that story and much more at 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.”
Dabney Sanders explains how Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway came together.
