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The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.

It’s Tuesday and congestion pricing in NYC lives another day — but tell that to the FHWA director that the Trump administration has put in its crosshairs after its latest move against livable streets.

Also, check out this week’s stellar episode of ‘The Brake,’ which features the president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, David Harkey. He joins Kea Wilson to talk about his organization’s pivot to push for a five-year full-court press on traffic violence, and why he doesn’t believe that means giving up on ending road deaths overall.

  • Thursday’s Headlines Are Another Front in the Culture War
    by Blake Aued
    October 8, 2026
    David Zipper explains how transportation, once an issue with broad consensus, became politically polarized.
  • Does the ‘Week Without Driving’ Give Car-Free Living A Bad Rap?
    by Kea Wilson
    October 8, 2026
    Nope; automobility does that! But there’s more we can do to highlight the benefits of active and shared transportation, and demand even better for people outside vehicles.
  • How Your City Can Pass Its Federal Transit Equity Test and Still Fail Riders
    by Kea Wilson
    October 8, 2026
    “A system that looks fair on paper only because it pushed everyone else into a car is not equitable.”
  • Wednesday’s Headlines Come Not to Bury Caesar
    by Blake Aued
    October 7, 2026
    Why is public transportation the only thing Donald Trump doesn’t want to build?
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