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Biden Right to Think Beyond DOT

By Kea Wilson | Apr 12, 2021 | No Comments
Opponents of President Biden's infrastructure plan ignore that "transportation infrastructure" must include tackling our frayed social safety nets and our broken street designs.
Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time

By Kea Wilson | Apr 8, 2021 | No Comments
For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?
Another section of I-5. Image: Curtis Gregory Perry via Creative Commons.

Oregon Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway Expansion

By Kea Wilson | Apr 7, 2021 | No Comments
Advocates in Portland, Ore. are suing to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the United States.
Image: D.C. Atty via Creative Commons

SCOTUS Declines to Hear ‘Pedestrian Safety’ Defense of Anti-Panhandling Laws

By Kea Wilson | Apr 2, 2021 | No Comments
Good news: The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal that might have made it easier for city's to ban pedestrians rather than just fix roadways.
Image: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons

Five Questions About Biden’s Infrastructure Package

By Kea Wilson | Apr 1, 2021 | No Comments
President Biden revealed new details about his transformative new infrastructure package today, but sustainable transportation advocates are already questioning how much it will actually transform our national addiction to cars. 
Image: Charlie Neibergall via Creative Commons

No, We’re Not Getting a Federal VMT Tax (But Maybe We Should)

By Kea Wilson | Mar 31, 2021 | No Comments
Secretary Pete is walking back a statement that suggested a switch from a gas tax to a mileage tax — but he certainly sparked a conversation about the future of the innovative funding mechanism that's unlikely to die down soon.
Image via Creative Commons

Why The U.S. Needs a Bold 2030 Mode Shift Target

By Kea Wilson | Mar 30, 2021 | No Comments
America needs to commit to transportation policies that will at least double the number of people who travel by foot, bike or transit by 2030, a leading advocacy group argues.
Shawn Bradley; screenshot from Youtube

NEW DETAILS EMERGE: Police Declined To Cite Drivers in Shawn Bradley Crash

By Kea Wilson and Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 25, 2021 | No Comments
No drivers were cited in the January car crash that paralyzed former NBA star and cyclist Shawn Bradley, and the road on which he was traveling did not have a protected bike lane.

Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

By Kea Wilson | Mar 25, 2021 | No Comments
A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards. 
Image: Michael Sheehan via Creative Commons

STUDY: Drivers Mostly Use Cruise Control to Speed

By Kea Wilson | Mar 22, 2021 | No Comments
"Cruise control" technology was invented to help drivers maintain a safe and steady speed — but more often, they use it to go faster than they would without it, a new study finds. 
Shawn Bradley; screenshot from Youtube

NBA Star Shawn Bradley Paralyzed in Crash

By Kea Wilson | Mar 18, 2021 | No Comments
Former Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Bradley announced today that he was struck by a driver while riding his bike, paralyzing the NBA star and reminding America that no one is safe from our national traffic violence epidemic until we commit to ending it. 
Photo: Komonews.com

SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Dude, Where’s My Bus Stop?

By Kea Wilson | Mar 18, 2021 | No Comments
Yep: this sorry bus stop doesn't even have a sign.
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