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What Would Our Cities Look Like If AVs Ruled the Roads?

By Kea Wilson | Sep 24, 2021 | No Comments

Autonomous vehicles could unleash a second wave of suburban sprawl that makes cities inhospitable to people outside cars in new ways — unless governments adopt policies to soften their impact now, a new study argues.

Friday’s Headlines Want More Bike Lanes

By Blake Aued | Sep 24, 2021 | No Comments

Why are bike lanes good? Let Vox count the ways. Plus, Lyft is more naughty than nice, and the Times rides with David Byrne.

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Top Ten California Automated Vehicle Policy Strategies

By Mollie D'Agostino, Susan Shaheen and Daniel Sperling | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

Our team, at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, has developed a menu of options to set California on a path toward automated vehicle safety, social equity, mobility, and sustainability.

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Op-Ed: What Traffic Safety Can Learn from Aviation

By Tim Courtney | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

If you think Vision Zero can't be achieved just look up

National Landing in Northern Virginia, where the local business improvement district wants to convert an elevated highway that divides National Landing’s downtown into a walkable boulevard with narrower lanes and slower car speeds. Image: Sblover99/Wikipedia, CC

Op-Ed: Will States and Feds Let Cities Tame Urban Highways?

By Scott Beyer | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

Urban highways are a fixture of city life in the U.S. — but much of the time cities don’t control them. Could that change?

Talking Headways Podcast: The Community Knows What it Wants

By Jeff Wood | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Duncan Hwang, interim co-director of the Asian Pacific Network of Oregon, and Gauri Rajbaidya, architect and senior associate at SERA. They chat with us about community-driven development in Portland’s Jade District and how it's connected to the rest of the region.