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It’s not just you: Drivers have gotten worse since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The latest data from New York City shows that 27 percent of all traffic fatalities from 2021-2024 were caused by unlicensed drivers, up from 16 percent in 2019.
Plus: An op-ed from Andy Boenau on the masterful storytelling and propaganda that convinced 20th-century Americans to abandon human-scale design for car-oriented sprawl — and how to make some of our own.
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.”
