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Happy Earth Day!
The Trump administration is celebrating the holiday by encouraging local transportation leaders to expand roadway capacity in an effort to end traffic jams — pushing a long-debunked “solution” that will make roads more congested, polluted and fiscally wasteful than before, experts say.
Read all about it — and more of today’s top stories — at the links below.
Despite recent progress, the U.S. has been lagging behind other developed nations on road safety for decades.
Someday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be president. But for now, she’s our riding partner.
“Safer than humans” is better than nothing, but it’s still an unlivable standard.
