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Highlights from Buttigieg's Confirmation Hearing
By Kea Wilson |
The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.
Talking Headways Podcast: Transportation and Law, Part II
By Jeff Wood |
More discussion of racism, the need for active transportation policies and why — why, God why — we accept road deaths that claim the scores of people every single day.
Thursday’s Headlines to Start a New Era
By Blake Aued |
Sure, most of the news was about President Biden, but there are also plenty of stories about other things. Click here.
The US DOT Needs an Active Transportation Czar
By Kea Wilson |
Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.
The First Traffic Violence Widower is Now President
By Kea Wilson |
Joe Biden is president — the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
Wednesday’s Headlines as We Get a New President
By Blake Aued |
Joe Biden is tapping the recently resigned head of the New York City DOT as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s top deputy to help with issues like congestion pricing, transit funding and the Gateway Project, a train tunnel under the Hudson River. (Gothamist) While grappling with climate change, Biden should look to California, which is phasing […]