Instead of considering alternatives to expensive electric or hybrid cars, like e-scooters or e-bikes, the Biden administration remains focused on antiquated, car-centric approaches and policies tha… | Continue reading
Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don’t have to. | Continue reading
The Twin Cities’ victory over mandatory parking minimums was won by smart, persistent organizing among advocates and well-informed electeds — and your city can do the same. | Continue reading
It seems like there’s a story every other day about an exciting new traffic law aimed at curbing the most dangerous behaviors on U.S. roads. The only problem? They’re almost exclusively… | Continue reading
How much more does it cost the public to build infrastructure and provide services for sprawling development compared to more compact neighborhoods? A lot more, according to this handy summary from… | Continue reading
Washington is one step closer to passing an infrastructure package that would provide historic funding for transit, and then immediately undercut it with historic funding for drivers. | Continue reading
The two-wheeled electric vehicle revolution is taking off — but is Washington up to the task? | Continue reading
Two Tesla passengers are dead, partly because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ignored calls from the National Transportation Safety Board to require automakers to implement safe … | Continue reading
President-elect Biden and the future First Lady Dr. Jill Biden rode bikes today as part of an outing near their Delaware home. Meanwhile, President Trump drove past an anti-democracy gathering in W… | Continue reading
As traffic volumes increase in our city centers, partly fueled by deliveries from a COVID boosted e-commerce sector, organizations are looking for a silver bullet for urban logistics. But has it be… | Continue reading
If there’s one thing America definitely doesn’t need any more of, it’s parking lots — and during COVID-19, communities across the U.S. are seizing that under-utilized asphalt for … | Continue reading
Americans are taking on more debt than ever at the car dealership — and the rise in risky auto lending has everything to do with our national rise in pedestrian fatalities. The total amount that Am… | Continue reading
What happened to the “village?” They’re a car ride away. | Continue reading
A new pot of money would help undo the sometimes-racist legacy of urban highway construction. | Continue reading
Renters who don’t own cars will no longer have to pay for parking spaces they don’t use. | Continue reading
Deadly and sprawling Houston does not need this $7-billion widening and rebuilding highway project. | Continue reading
Let’s face it: America’s roads are safe increasingly for only those who drive on them. | Continue reading
Bus shelters didn’t match up with high-ridership stops. Just moving them around could have a big impact on access. | Continue reading
The Pacific Rim city is trying to be an Amsterdam of the Americas. Here’s how it’s leading. | Continue reading
Studies show when these cameras get turned off, fatalities increase. | Continue reading
More traffic, less transit trips, more traffic deaths, greater social stratification: A comprehensive list. (It’s long.) | Continue reading
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday. | Continue reading
Dense, walkable cities mean more families can afford to stay, and public transport gets a boost. They’re also greener than suburbs, with their large homes and car-dependent multitudes. But changing… | Continue reading
How easy would it be to add some bollards to your neighborhood bike lane? A national demonstration aims to point that out. | Continue reading
The city’s plans to put U.S. regions to shame, calling for 90 percent of residents to be in walking distance of “daily needs.” | Continue reading
Building out Kansas City’s bike plan would add $500 million to the local economy and, save 36 lives a year, a new study finds. | Continue reading
This week, we’re joined by Susan Crawford, the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard School of Law. Crawford talks about her new book Fiber, which focuses on how cities in the U… | Continue reading
An urban, plain-clothes transportation cyclist could be running for president and bike Twitter nearly broke. | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft have decreased bus ridership in San Francisco 12.7 percent since 2010, a new study estimates. | Continue reading
We’ve seen this before: Freeways induce driving and when one closes people adapt their choices accordingly. There is no “carmageddon” after all. | Continue reading
Uber and Lyft have decreased bus ridership in San Francisco 12.7 percent since 2010, a new study estimates. | Continue reading
Media tropes emphasize the victim’s behavior when a driver hits a pedestrian or cyclist rather than systemic causes, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Pedestrians behave unpredictably when the environment is not accommodating to them, new research using time-lapse video shows. | Continue reading
A multi-phased experiment in St. Paul increased driver yielding to pedestrians from 32 to more than 70 percent. And it decreased unsafe passing of yielding cars 10 fold. | Continue reading
He initially promised to revolutionize public transit — but then created only a new private transportation system for rich people. | Continue reading
The end of single-family zoning rule has gotten all the attention. But Minneapolis’s new plan is groundbreaking on transportation as well. | Continue reading
Finally, U.S. trains will no longer have be be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults” thanks to long-awaited changes in federal regulations. | Continue reading
Once the street was closed to cars, about 20,000 additional streetcar riders materialized practically overnight. | Continue reading
In a new survey, Millennials report fairly high dissatisfaction with driving, but they are mostly without alternatives. | Continue reading
Here’s one way to understand the story of biking in Sevilla, Spain: It went from having about as much biking as Oklahoma City to having about as much biking as Portland, Oregon. It did this o… | Continue reading
As much as 1,100 more people are being killed every year, thanks to the presence of Uber and Lyft, a new study finds. | Continue reading
A new study finds media accounts of cycling deaths focus blame on the victim’s behavior and sidestep systemic causes. | Continue reading
It doesn’t make for exciting newsprint. But people like scooters and they aren’t causing any big problems. | Continue reading
Self-driving car companies tech isn’t advanced enough to detect pedestrians. Rather than wait until it matures, they’re trying to blame pedestrians. | Continue reading
Whatever you make of Bird’s offer, there’s certainly an opening here that cities shouldn’t let go to waste. | Continue reading
Groundbreaking research presents credible estimates of the total parking supply in several American cities, and it’s not pretty. | Continue reading
The city is on the verge of releasing a design guide that will expedite implementation of protected bike lanes on 450 miles of streets. | Continue reading