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Everything About the Bike Commuter Benefit

By Eric Sakalowsky | Oct 6, 2021 | No Comments

What is the federal bike commuter benefit, and how could it be better? Here's everything you need to know.

An e-bike charging station in Recklinghausen, Germany. Image: Katharina Hering, CC

Everything You Need to Know About the E-Bike Credit

By Eric Sakalowsky | Oct 5, 2021 | No Comments

What is the proposed federal e-bike credit, and how could it be better? Here's everything you need to know.

Toxic Car Ads: Aggressively American Edition

By Kea Wilson | Oct 5, 2021 | No Comments

We're finishing off our first round of competition with two ads that give a salute to America...or at least one very specific, aggressively toxic version of it.

Image description: an American flag attached to the bumper of a large SUV. Source: Robert Couse-Baker, PxHere, CC

What's Behind Partisan Splits Over Transport Reform?

By Kea Wilson | Oct 4, 2021 | No Comments

The majority of Americans support transportation reform that would reduce our national dependence on automobiles — but better messaging may be needed to persuade the rest, a new study suggests.

Funding for the White Oak Creek Greenway Phase IV in Cary, North Carolina, was part of $100 million invested in the East Coast Greenway in 2020. (Photo by Dave Connelly, via East Coast Greenway Alliance

It's Time for More Federal Dollars for Greenways

By Dennis Markatos-Soriano | Oct 1, 2021 | No Comments

It’s up to us in the next few days and weeks to ensure that more than a tiny portion of the next infrastructure package goes to greenways, sidewalks, and bike lanes. If we don’t stand up to give people safe networks to live a low-carbon, high-quality life, then we can be assured that the highway lobby will be ready to spend our tax dollars.

Senator Joe Manchin II (D-W.Va). Image via Third Way

Congressional Maneuvering Delays Infrastructure Bill

By Kea Wilson | Oct 1, 2021 | No Comments

Congress was forced to delay a vote on a bill that would have reauthorized the nation's major transportation programs last night, missing a critical midnight deadline and throwing the future of sustainable transport advocates' priorities into doubt.

OPINION: On Climate, Look to E-bikes

By John Stout | Sep 30, 2021 | No Comments

Concerns about climate change have never been higher, and every year is becoming worse. Following a summer filled with devastating hurricanes in the South, deadly flooding in the Northeast and raging wildfires in the West, it’s clearer than ever that we need to do everything in our power to mitigate our country’s impact on the […]

Talking Headways Podcast: What We Can Do To Depave Cities

By Jeff Wood | Sep 30, 2021 | No Comments

This week on the podcast, we're joined by Mary Pat McGuire, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. McGuire talks with us about what happens to water after it hits the pavement, the damaging environmental effects of covering cities in pavement, and steps we can take to reduce runoff in green cities.

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