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Aaron Short

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D.C. SUV Owners Will Finally Pay Much More to Drive

By Aaron Short | May 27, 2022 | No Comments
The era of big government vehicle is over.
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Report: Bigger Bike Budgets Boost the Boom

By Aaron Short | Aug 25, 2021 | No Comments
The Biden administration should pour billions of dollars into a variety of bike projects because the investment will generate thousands of jobs while also obviously greening the way Americans get around, advocates said this week, citing a new report on the economic benefits of cycling investments.
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Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals

By Aaron Short | May 27, 2021 | No Comments
A Senate proposal to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into new freeways will wipe out the Biden administration’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030.
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U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists, Taxpayers: Report

By Aaron Short | May 26, 2021 | No Comments
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
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Q&A: Eric Jacobsen on How Cars Make us Lonelier

By Aaron Short | Apr 19, 2021 | No Comments
The author of "Three Pieces of Glass" shows how the phone, the TV and the car windshield make us so damn unhappy.
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Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways

By Aaron Short | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments
“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”
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State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations

By Aaron Short | Jan 10, 2020 | No Comments
AASHTO-ld you so! State DOT association wants the same funding for highway construction — and no provisions to make roads safer.
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Trump Administration Keeps Hands Off Self-Driving Cars

By Aaron Short | Jan 9, 2020 | No Comments
At the annual Las Vegas tech geek fest on Wednesday, USDOT Secretary Elaine Chao refused to put a leash on driverless car technology.
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Bus Rapid Transit Should Be Built More Rapidly

By Aaron Short | Jan 8, 2020 | No Comments
Why does it take years to install a dedicated bus lane? It only takes a week to put down red paint and tell drivers, "Begone!"
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Congress To Fight Environmental Rule Change

By Aaron Short | Jan 7, 2020 | No Comments
The Transportation Research Board’s 99th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. from Jan. 12-16, 2020. Click here for more information. Congressional leaders vowed they won’t let the president get away with gutting environmental laws after learning the Trump administration will scrap requirements to consider the climate consequences for new highways and pipelines. A White […]
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Vision Zero! Oslo Quashes Road Deaths

By Aaron Short | Jan 3, 2020 | No Comments
Secrets from Oslo, where the zero of Vision Zero is taken seriously.
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Americans Are Poised to Drive Less In 2020

By Aaron Short | Jan 3, 2020 | No Comments
Americans don't usually make New Year's resolutions to drive their cars less, but it may be happening anyway.
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