People with mobility challenges in Baltimore, Md. are celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act this week by filing a lawsuit demanding their city actually follow the historic law  — and communities across the country could be the target of similar lawsuits soon.

The Senate may be on the brink of slashing the nation’s core transit funding at a moment when many hoped the mode would finally get its due — unless advocates speak out.

The death of the beloved New York Jets assistant coach has sparked an outpouring among football fans and outrage among street-safety advocates.

Most Americans agree its past time to green the nation's fleet of yellow school buses, a new survey finds — but Congress keeps whittling down funding for this common sense, bipartisan priority. 

The long-term health benefits of using bike share vastly outweigh the short-term risks, even in the most polluted and car-dominated U.S. cities, a new study finds — and cities who invest in reducing those risks by loosening car dominance can save even more lives and millions in precious public health dollars. 

Have a conversation about why America should be less car-dominated, and sooner or later, you’re bound to hear a skeptic say something like this: “That all sounds great. But American transportation culture will never change. This isn’t the Netherlands!”

Almost a third of car crashes involving a vulnerable road user go unreported in the nation’s capital, skewing District crash totals — but underreporting is far from the only thing wrong with reporting standards across the U.S., advocates say.

Three quarters of the most fatal roads in America for pedestrians are located in low-income neighborhoods, a new study finds — and they overwhelmingly share a handful of notoriously dangerous design characteristics that communities can and must eliminate on any corridor where residents are expected to walk. 

A recently destroyed pedestrian bridge that runs over an urban highway will be rebuilt, the Washington, D.C., mayor has announced, ignoring calls from advocates to reimagine the road instead, which has become a symbol of systemic racism in the region.

The massive infrastructure package announced on Tuesday promises to pump hundreds of billions into affordable housing and other policies that will make active transportation a viable option for more Americans — but it may also include big money for electric vehicles with little for other modes.

A study finds a high rate of state patrol traffic stops in U.S. is not correlated with decreased car-crash rates

Transit agencies need to do more to make sure their networks are comprehensively safe — and that may include reforming, defunding, or outright removing police from these critical public spaces, a new report argues.