Aaron Short
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Streetsies 2019: Transportation Plan of the Year!
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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. As we close 2019, it is time to recognize the street designs that made our communities more livable and safer. Like the Oscar for Best Picture, there’s something for everybody: Blockbuster proposals like […]
Streetsies 2019: And the Winners Are…
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Here are our annual awards for the best (and worst) people, projects and ideas of the year.
Rail-y Big Deal: Ohio Man Maps The Future
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"People said, 'This would change my life,'" said the visionary behind a Buckeye State rail system.
Pedestrians Deaths On Freeways Rising
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More Americans have been dying on high-speed roads because cities and states haven't built proper infrastructure to help people cross safely, a new study shows.
Federal Transportation Bill’s Winners & Losers
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Congress has some stocking stuffers and a few lumps of coal for the transportation sector in the $1.4 trillion spending package the House of Representatives passed on Tuesday in one of the last votes of the year before impeachment. The bill, which includes $87.2 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation, plus a potpourri of […]
Report Attacks Structural Racism in Transportation
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Cities must include community members in planning, hire more diverse staff, and stop displacing residents to combat generations of structural racism in our car-dependent society that has long favored suburban commuters in single-family homes over poorer communities riven by highways and pollution, a new report argues. Smart Growth America’s report, “The State of Transportation and […]
Red States Help U.S. Miss Climate Targets
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Why can't our country solve its emissions problem? Because we are effectively two nations: A blue nation that is committed to climate change, and a Trump nation that is not.
Expert Spills Secrets of Micromobility’s Future
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"Cities can provide more infrastructure that’s safe," the director of the New Urban Mobility Alliance says.
Feds: Paint Bus Lanes Red!
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The Federal Highway Association approved new guidance this week that will dramatically expedite the process for approving the use of red paint to indicate a dedicated bus lane.
Bus-ted! Congress To Bar Chinese E-Buses and Rail Cars
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A federal "Buy American" provision just screwed U.S. transit agencies. Thanks, Congress.
Three Cities See a Way to ‘Curb’ Traffic
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Curb space is the Wild West of neighborhood transportation.
Think Tank’s Road Map to Break the Car Culture
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Congress should stop splurging on new highways and instead expand transit to help Americans break their century-long addiction to a device that is killing us, the car, a D.C. institute says.