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.
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.
