Friday’s Headlines Are Going Underground
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The growing "cap and cover" movement seeks to reunite neighborhoods and improve air quality by burying urban freeways.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Highway Boondoggles 2014
Bill to Prohibit Building Freeways through Sensitive Communities Moves to Assembly Floor
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The bill would prohibit Caltrans from using state resources on any project, or on permitting any project, that does not meet certain criteria measured by the California Healthy Places Index.
Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance
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Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.
An Interstate Across America — For Everyone Besides Drivers, That Is — Would Pay For Itself in No Time
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A continuous cross-continental active transportation trail would pay for itself in less than five years in visitor spending alone, a new analysis argues — and it could have a big impact on the car-free transportation landscape in the communities it runs through, too.
Thursday’s Headlines Need An Assist
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Small cities need help applying for infrastructure grants. Also, want to help Ukraine beat Putin? Put up more barriers for e-bike users.
Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects
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"Treme and the 7th Ward, like many neighborhoods across the country, are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it."
Wednesday’s Headlines Want Safe Streets Now
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Particularly frightening about the 16-year high in traffic deaths: The spike in pedestrians killed, seniors killed and deaths caused by large truck drivers.
Shared Mobility Action Agenda Aims to Make Sustainable Modes Convenient For All by 2030
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There are many ways to screw up shared mobility. So hopefully the action agenda will focus on shared modes that actually decrease emissions, rather than exacerbate climate change.
Should We Convert Offices to Housing?
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People are working from home, resulting in one in five offices in San Francisco sitting empty. The Bay Area also has a housing crisis. Which has more and more people, including Governor Gavin Newsom, thinking it's time to look at converting some of that disused office space into housing.
NO SURPRISE: Feds Report Double-Digit Increase in Road Deaths in 2021
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Call it the forgotten pandemic: road fatalities surged by double-digit percentages, including a significant increase in deaths outside of cars, in 2021, according to a new report issued Tuesday by federal authorities.