The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Today’s newsletter brings you a very important question: What would it take to map all of the sidewalks in your state? It sounds like a pie in the sky question… until you remember that states and tech companies keep a database of virtually every vehicle road in the U.S.
Washington State is on the brink of completing America’s first comprehensive, statewide inventory of every single sidewalk and pedestrian path within its borders, and Kea Wilson discusses it on this week’s episode of The Brake.
Listen to that at the link below… and check out this week’s news headlines as well.
If you want to walk and bike safely, stay out of the South.
Lisa Jerram of APTA and Philip Plotch of the Eno Center for Transportation explain the state of bus manufacturing and why buses cost so much.
Building more homes will get cars off the road, but where they’re built matters.
A U.S. Senate bill would result in the loss of $950 million in transit infrastructure funding.
