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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.

  • Friday Video: Everybody Loves to Ride the D (The New D Train in LA, That Is)
    by Kea Wilson
    May 15, 2026
    It’s Woodstock for NUMTOTs — minus the mud and free love.
  • Friday’s Broken-Down Headlines
    by Blake Aued
    May 15, 2026
    Sidewalks are too often neglected, but there are ways for cities to step up and fix these essential public spaces.
  • Talking Headways Podcast: Sidewalk Nation
    by David Meyer
    May 14, 2026
    Law Professor Michael Pollack on who manages, owns and feels ownership of sidewalks — “America’s most overlooked resource.”
  • ‘Our Roads Are More Than Just Highways’: Democrats Urge U.S. Senate Not to Defund Multimodal Programs
    by Kea Wilson
    May 14, 2026
    A Trump administration proposal recommends massive cuts to popular programs – and it will cost American communities more than they can afford, Senate Democrats say.
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