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Thursday’s Headlines Miss the Cheese Wagon

School buses are often the main transit service in sprawling areas, but increasingly they're leaving many students behind,

September 5, 2024

This Year’s Park(ing) Day Hopes to Inspire Big Policy Change

One weekend a year, advocates and artists all over the world repurpose curbside parking spots to make more space for people. This year, they're connecting it back to parking policy reform that can keep the party going year round.

September 5, 2024

Wednesday’s Headlines Seek Subsidies

The U.S. and other wealthy western nations have wasted $30 billion on climate change mitigation technologies that don't work, according to a Guardian investigation. What kind of sustainable transportation infrastructure could have have bought with that money?

September 4, 2024

What the Media is Getting Wrong About the Gaudreau Brothers’ Deaths

It made national headlines when these two professional hockey players and brothers were killed on their bikes. The systemic failures that lead to their deaths, though, didn't generate nearly as much press.

September 4, 2024

How Cities Are Getting Creative To Reclaim Public Space for People

Putting in parks and plazas isn't the only way to reimagine "public spaces" around the needs of people, a new report argues — and if we do it right, these projects can be a powerful tool for equity and health.

September 3, 2024

Tuesday’s Headlines Are History Repeating Itself

Grist reports a largely unknown story about how states, congressmen and labor unions tried to restrict or ban polluting vehicles in the 1960s, and almost succeeded.

September 3, 2024

Damn the Torpedoes, Friday’s Headlines Are Ahead

David Zipper has a long read in Slate about the history of freeway construction and how it compares to dams.

August 30, 2024

Friday Video: How (and Why) To Paint a Ghost Bike

Roadside memorials can make the human costs of our traffic violence crisis visible — at least until someone tears them down. That's why filmmaker made it his mission to restore two ghost bikes that had vanished from Boston roads.

August 30, 2024

Talking Headways Podcast: The Real Work of Safe Streets

Oakland City Council candidate Warren Logan on how people perceive government works, and the need for more flexible housing and streets policies.

August 29, 2024

Philly Advocates Score Initial Win In Fight for Safer Bike Lanes

The death of Dr. Barbara Friedes is spurring change on the Philadelphia road where she was killed while biking – and hopefully, elsewhere in the City of Brotherly Love, too.

August 29, 2024