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A pair of shoes to memorialize a child lost to traffic violence. Photo: North Carolina DOT, CC

On This World Day of Remembrance, Get Angry — And Take Action

By Leah Shahum | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments

This Sunday, November 20th is the annual World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, which will see a record number of U.S. communities come together to demand change to stem the mounting roadway safety crisis. Here are four ways we can take action, even after the vigils end.

Why There Are So Few Monuments to Traffic Violence Victims — And Why It Matters

By Kea Wilson | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments

People who die in car crashes largely go unmemorialized in the public realm. Here's why that's bad.

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A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments

It's a different memorial to a different holocaust.

Walkable City 10 Years Later: How Car Culture Takes Away Our Freedom

By Jeff Speck | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments

We are often told that America’s car culture is integral to its freedom. But let’s parse that one out a little bit. Three factors— road policing, car dependence, and street design — would together seem to conspire otherwise.

Friday’s Headlines a Year Later

By Blake Aued | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments

It's been one year since President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. So how are things going?

A Very Special Talking Headways Podcast: Chatting with Rep. Earl Blumenauer

By Jeff Wood | Nov 17, 2022 | No Comments

This week, we sit down with Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon’s Third District at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami. We chat about the one-year anniversary of the infrastructure bill, where we’re at with Vision Zero, the coming Farm Bill, and the important connections between housing, transportation, and health.

Walkable City 10 Years Later: What If We Took Traffic Violence As Seriously As Terror?

By Jeff Speck | Nov 17, 2022 | No Comments

Research suggests that you are 568 times less likely to die in a terror attack than a car crash. So why do cities devote so much less to making their cities walkable than they do to preventing politically-motivated violence?

Left: Kelly Sikkema, CC. Right: M.V. Jantzen, CC

Oregon’s Rep. Blumenauer Remains Optimistic on Sustainable Transport Despite GOP Takeover of Congress

By Kea Wilson | Nov 17, 2022 | No Comments

A Republican majority in the House won't necessarily be a death knell for sustainable transportation priorities, the prominent bike-loving Congressman says.

Survey Says … Thursday’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Nov 17, 2022 | No Comments

A new poll shows how attitudes toward electric cars, transit and micromobility vary geographically and among age groups.

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STREETFILMS: Riding Around with Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere

By Streetsblog | Nov 16, 2022 | No Comments

Check out Eighth Avenue ... with a comedian! Charlie Todd from the city-based troupe Improv Everywhere rode around to show off the Department of Transportation's transformational redesign of Eighth and Ninth avenues.

Senators Urge Regulators to ‘Put the Pedal to the Metal’ On Vehicle Safety Standards

By Kea Wilson | Nov 16, 2022 | No Comments

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been in effect for a full year, but federal transportation leaders still haven't implemented some of its most crucial safety provisions — and advocates and electeds say its time they step up to stem the record-setting tide of traffic deaths on U.S. roads

Walkable City 10 Years Later: COVID-Safe Streets Are Walkable Streets

By Jeff Speck | Nov 16, 2022 | No Comments

Aside from Zoom — and, of course, mRNA vaccines — the most impactful technology to evolve thanks to COVID was the one at the very heart of Walkable City: street design. Jeff Speck explores how the pandemic re-shaped our streets — and what it will take to make those changes permanent.

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