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Streetsies 2019: And the Winners Are…

Sponsored post: 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. The coveted Streetsie. The holiday...

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State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations

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. AASHTO-ld you so! State transportation leaders want...

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The 94% Error: We Need to Understand the True Cause of Crashes

You’ve probably heard the claim that 94 percent of crashes are due to human error. Traffic safety campaigns are grounded in that claim. Agencies are using it to advocate for autonomous vehicles with...

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Op/Ed: Western Transport Officials Ignore Road Safety

State transportation officials from throughout the Western United States are meeting this week in Utah’s capital for golf outings, work sessions, a pub crawl, dinners and sponsored breaks, and nowhere...

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Oregon DOT’s Real Climate Plan: Keep on Polluting

Editor’s note: this article originally appeared on City Observatory and his been republished with permission. The Oregon Department of Transportation is telling anyone who’ll listen about their...

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These States Won’t Adopt Even Bare Minimum Roadway Safety Laws

More than 40 states have failed to adopt common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn’t bode well...

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What’s In the Groundbreaking New USDOT Safety Strategy — and What’s Missing

Wait a second — did Vision Zero just go national? For the first time in history, the United States Department of Transportation has committed to using every available resource to end roadway deaths and...

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Feds Throw Wrench Into Oregon Highway Widening

Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on BikePortland.org and is republished with permission. Read Streetsblog USA’s previous coverage of the Rose Quarter expansion project here.  Much to the...

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When Road Diets Get Rolled Back, Part I: The Texas Road Diet Massacre

Editor’s note: today, we’re launching a brief series on communities that have rolled back their efforts to transform dangerous, auto-centric roads to center the needs of people on all modes, and what...

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THE BRAKE: Should Cities Train Their Own Transportation Advocates?

Anyone who’s ever tried to get a new crosswalk in their neighborhood knows how hard it can be just to figure out who to call — never mind how to get whoever’s on the other end of the line to listen....

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Why Kids are Suing DOTs for Driving the Climate Crisis

Children and teenagers are suing their state’s transportation leaders for the outsized role they’ve played in the ongoing climate crisis — and if they succeed, their efforts could empower new...

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What The Proposed GHG Rule Will (And Won’t) Do for the Climate

Federal regulators want state and local government to start tracking their transportation sector emissions — but because of Congress’s flawed infrastructure law, they can’t do much to force communities...

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Opinion: Safety Fix for Deadly Road Nixed by Harrisburg Mayor Over Parking

A plan to redesign one of the most dangerous streets in all of Pennsylvania has been abandoned by the new mayor of Harrisburg amid — you guessed it — complaints about lost parking spaces. First, the...

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Talking Headways Podcast: Texas Highway Tangle

This week, journalist Megan Kimble talks about housing and highway fights in Texas: TXDOT’s political pressure, the organizations fighting back, and why throughput remains king in the Lone Star State....

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Opinion: Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?

This article first appeared in Strong Towns and is republished with permission. In the picture below, I am standing next to Amber Weilert, whose 13-year-old son Michael was struck and killed in a...

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Report: State and Federal Officials Are Asleep at the Wheel on AV Safety

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How Traffic Engineers Blame You for Their Profession’s Mistakes

A version of this article originally appeared on Strong Towns and is republished with permission. Mississippi streets are among the most dangerous in the U.S., seeing a total of 341 deaths in the...

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Three Ways DOTs Can Help the Unhoused — On and Off the Road

Departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads, a new federally-funded report...

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Now is the Time to Address Safety on State-Owned Roads

Jenn Fox Over the last five years, more than half of fatal crashes in urban areas occurred on roads managed by states, leaving local leaders with little authority to make safety changes. We see this...

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The Debt Ceiling Deal Could Be Bad News For Freeway Fighters

A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would “gut” key elements of the nation’s bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default and could make it easier for...

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