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USA
What the History of AVs Can Teach About Transportation’s Future
By Kea Wilson |
Alex Davies new book, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car," offers a glimpse into an industry that will rapidly upend our transportation landscape — and some worry will kill even more vulnerable road users.
Taking An App Taxi More than Doubles Your Roadway Impact
By Kea Wilson |
The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.
Five Highlights from Pete Buttigieg’s Confirmation Hearing
By Kea Wilson |
The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.
NYC
OPINION: Yonkers Experience with Scooters Shows the Way for NYC
By Mike Spano |
The mayor of Yonkers loves e-scooters, but points out that there are "clearly areas of improvement that must be addressed ... to make serious strides towards our ambitious sustainability and traffic reduction goals."
Majority of New Yorkers Want Street Safety: Poll
By Eve Kessler |
“The majority of New Yorkers want streets that prioritize people,” Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Danny Harris said.
Chuckie’s in Love: Schumer Says Biden and Buttigieg Will Prioritize Congestion Pricing … But When?!
By Gersh Kuntzman |
Congestion pricing feels like it's just a shrug to New York's elected leadership.
LA
Metro/Caltrans Neighborhood Erasure along the Lower 5 Freeway
By Joe Linton |
Metro and Caltrans have erased hundreds of houses, apartments, and businesses - in the cities of Norwalk and Santa Fe Springs - to widen the 5 Freeway
L.A. Should ‘Al Fresco’ Its Bus Stops
By Luke Klipp |
Apply the same L.A. Al Fresco energy to improving bus stops - for the safety and well-being of essential workers.
Metro CEO Phil Washington Named To Biden Transition Team
By Joe Linton |
Washington is the Team Lead reviewing the federal Department of Transportation, National Transportation Safety Board, Amtrak, and Maritime Commission
CHICAGO
RTA plans to focus federal COVID stimulus funding to transit-dependent areas
By Igor Studenkov |
The Regional Transportation Authority is planning to use federal stimulus funding to support transit services to "to the places and people across the region who most need transit" during the pandemic.
Advocates: Ending license revocation for traffic cam tickets is the right thing to do
By Courtney Cobbs |
Taking away people's licenses for failing to pay tickets doesn't necessarily make our streets safer, but it does cause economic hardship.
Eyes on the street: Lots of people were biking on Clark Street in 19 degrees
By John Greenfield |
It almost makes you think it would make sense for the city to upgrade the bikeway to a physically protected micro-mobility lane.
SF
Eyes on the Street: Alameda’s First Fully Protected Intersection
By Roger Rudick |
Alameda is joining the list of Bay Area cities adopting true, Dutch-style safety designs at busy intersections
Commentary: Stop Subsidizing Car Ownership
By Roger Rudick |
If the city stops giving public land away for free to drivers, it can close its deficit and then some
Advocates Despondent Over Bummer Market Street
By Roger Rudick |
People will keep dying on Market Street. But at least Trump is out
DENVER
Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency
By Kea Wilson |
Joe Biden is president – the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
By Kea Wilson |
Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
Back on Track: What’s Next for the RTD Board of Directors?
By Streetsblog Denver |
The main challenge facing the RTD Board is to increase ridership and revenue while providing transportation that is safe and equitable for everyone. Johnson is optimistic: "We just have to be willing to roll up our sleeves and look at what's before us.”
CALIFORNIA
Steven Cliff, from California Air Resources Board, to Head National Highway and Traffic Safety
By Melanie Curry |
It's a strategic move and it sends the unequivocal message that the new President is committed to incorporating environmental concerns in every corner of federal policy making.
Air Resources Board Elevates Environmental Justice to Executive Level
By Melanie Curry |
ClimatePlan's Chanell Fletcher, as new Deputy Executive Officer for Environmental Justice, will oversee environmental justice, Community Air Monitoring Program (A.B. 617), and more.
Rail Opponents and the Insurrection
By Roger Rudick |
Aren't fascists supposed to like trains?
SOUTHEAST
How I Respond to “Atlanta Is a Car Town, Not a Cycling and Transit Town”
By ATL Urbanist |
A commenter on a recent post of mine mentioned a couple of pretty common criticisms about expectations for growth in cycling and transit in Atlanta.
What Makes a Good City? You Need the Right Codes
By David Walters |
How can we stop design and planning mistakes from damaging our city? Part 2 in a series of illustrated essays on urban design.
Suburban Exclusion of MARTA and Access to the Braves Stadium
By ATL Urbanist |
There is a way to get to the Braves stadium by using Cobb County’s transit service. But that service is nowhere near as extensive as MARTA and doesn’t meet the needs of the people who live in suburban poverty.
OHIO
What’s Really Behind GCRTA’s Falling Ridership Levels?
By Tim Kovach |
The past year has been eventful, to say least, for public transit in Northeast Ohio.
Driving Is the Problem, Not the Solution
By Tim Kovach |
We’re officially in the middle of the holiday season, which can only mean one thing – that’s right, the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2016 came out last week.
COTA to Interview Four Candidates for CEO Post
By Brent Warren |
Four candidates will be interviewed to be the next CEO of the Central Ohio Transit Authority.
STL
Why You Should Go to the Chouteau Greenway Events this Week
By William Smith |
If you haven’t yet heard of Great Rivers Greenway (GRG) or specifically the Chouteau Greenway, you’re missing out on one of the most exciting developments planned in St. Louis.
Take Parking Away From Treasurer’s Office
By Steve Patterson |
Former St. Louis treasurer Larry Williams reminds me of a small town version of New York's Robert Moses (1888-1981), using the state legislature to give him money and power while also remaining free of oversight.
How Much Do People in Missouri Bicycle?
By Brent Hugh |
How much do people in Missouri bicycle? Is the amount of bicycling in Missouri growing? How to Missouri communities compare with other U.S. cities and with major cities of the world?
TEXAS
The One Little Rule That Decides Where Austin’s Towers Build Parking
By Dan Keshet |
Not every tower in downtown Austin looks exactly the same, but there is one defining characteristic that describes almost all of them: parking. Most towers rest on top of what they call in the industry a parking plinth, the tower base where folks store their cars.
Remembering Pedestrian Pete
By Leah Binkovitz |
Irascible, ornery, unconventional, Pedestrian Pete pushed Houston to be better and embrace walkable urbanism.
Harvey to Be a Turning Point for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Houston
By Raj Mankad |
Rendering of New Hope Housing project on Harrisburg. Courtesy: GSMA.The urban ambitions of our government leaders — so easy to dismiss in the past as nice words with no budget — may get a serious infusion of funds because of Harvey. The Texas delegation that Governor Abbott took to Washington D.C. lobbied for $61 billion beyond what the state already expects to receive from […]