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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOp/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...
View ArticleOregon 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...
View ArticleThese 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...
View ArticleWhat’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...
View ArticleFeds 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleTHE 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....
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleOpinion: 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...
View ArticleTalking 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....
View ArticleOpinion: 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...
View ArticleReport: State and Federal Officials Are Asleep at the Wheel on AV Safety
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View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleNow 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...
View ArticleThe 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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