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What Trump’s Tariff Chaos Could Mean For Transportation
Hint: expensive cars, expensive trains, expensive bikes, expensive everything.
April 9, 2025
Update: Philadelphia Did NOT Eliminate America’s Best Free Transit Program!
The City of Brotherly Love has been giving free rides of tens of thousands of low-income residents — but the money might be about to dry up.
April 9, 2025
Wednesday’s Headlines Are a Good Deal
Planetizen makes the case that transit subsidies are well worth the expense because they benefit everyone — even drivers.
April 9, 2025
Infrastructure Year Has Already Begun
Here's what advocates need to know about the basics of the next surface transportation reauthorization bill and how to get involved.
April 8, 2025
Tuesday’s Headlines Are Duffy-nitely Worth Reading
Dad jokes aside, the transportation secretary pulled a political stunt by riding the New York City subway with embattled Mayor Eric Adams.
April 8, 2025
Is ‘Walk Score’ Really Just a ‘White Score’?
A provocative new paper argues that one of America's most popular real estate tools is driving investment to predominantly white urban neighborhoods, without meaningfully expanding walkability for anyone else.
April 7, 2025
Monday’s Headlines Love Thy Neighbor
It's harder to do, though, when a freeway separates people. Plus, EVs won't save us from climate change.
April 7, 2025
Friday Video: Get Thee To Ghent
The Belgian city banned cars from its inner core in 2017 — and it's working!
April 4, 2025
Friday’s Headlines Hit the Brakes
New administrations often reverse policies, but rarely do they go after money already allocated like the Trump administration is doing, Grist reports.
April 4, 2025
US DOT Doesn’t Want to Fund Road Diets Anymore
One of America's largest road safety programs will look "unfavorably" on applications that reduce lane capacity for vehicles – even in urban areas where there's nowhere else to build bike lanes, sidewalk extension, and other sorely-needed infrastructure.
April 3, 2025