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E-bike batteries are often a lot more subtle than this – and if a new bill passes, electric cycles of all kinds could be ubiquitous on U.S. roads soon. Image: Pixabay via Creative Commons

New Bill Would Help Americans Buy E-Bikes

By Kea Wilson | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

As President Biden gears up to give electric car buyers a federally subsidized discount, Congress must not to forget the other electric vehicle that is even better at saving the planet.

How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses

By Kea Wilson | Feb 10, 2021 | No Comments

It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.

photo of parking lot at affordable housing development in Hillsboro, OR

Study: Yes, More Parking Does Put More Cars on the Road

By Michael Andersen | Feb 10, 2021 | No Comments

A new study finds something transportation reformers have long suspected, but never proven.

This is the kind of landscape that lithium mining for electric car batteries might destroy. Image courtesy Protect Thacker Pass.

Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

The Green New Deal is clearly better than our carbon-based catastrophic course. But it also depends on massive amounts of lithium — and extracting it will carry a big environmental cost of its own.

Hit and Run Crashes Against Cyclists Surge in 2020

By Kea Wilson | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

Drivers aren't just killing cyclists on quarantine-emptied roads — they're also leaving them to die there.

Opinion: Parking Tech Can Help City Equity

By Jordan Justus | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

On an average day, the typical car owner doesn’t give much thought to parking, beyond whether they will luck out and find a spot to park when they reach their destination. And here's why that has to change.

Buttigieg Must Fix Traffic Control Standards

By Kea Wilson | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

The feds will finally revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets standards for signs, markings and signals that help road users — and, eventually, autonomous vehicles — safely move through our communities.

Image: Steve Jurvetson via Wikimedia Commons.

Bezos's Bloody, Polluting Legacy on U.S. Roads

By Kea Wilson | Feb 5, 2021 | No Comments

Jeff Bezos stepped down from the top spot at Amazon yesterday, but his toxic legacy on America's roadways isn't going anywhere.

Talking Headways Podcast: COVID-19 on the Streets

By Jeff Wood | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments

So has the pandemic been all bad? No! We're using streets better. Listen to our conversation with Shared Use Mobility Center Founder-in-Residence Sharon Feigon.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons

Opinion: Buttigieg's Midwest Roots Will Help Him at USDOT

By Kea Wilson | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments

Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.

Hold Your Applause For Car Makers' EV Promises

By Kea Wilson | Feb 3, 2021 | No Comments

General Motors aims to manufacture only electric vehicles by 2035 — but advocates are skeptical that the move will have much of a climate impact without a slate of accompanying policy changes.

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