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U.S. DOT Releases New Guidance to Make Streets Safe for Cycling

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 10, 2014 | No Comments

Last month in Pittsburgh, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled a new federal initiative aimed at reducing pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Despite declining overall traffic fatalities, people walking and biking are being killed more often on American streets, a disturbing trend that U.S. DOT wants to reverse. Now we’re beginning to see what the feds have in […]

Ad Nauseam: Use Any App You Want While Driving — Because Safety!

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 10, 2014 | No Comments

Here’s the latest in wishful thinking about distracted driving. A new application called “Drivemode” wants to make it easier for you to use all your mobile apps while you’re behind the wheel — but don’t worry it’s safe! Because, at least theoretically, you don’t actually have to look at your phone. That’s the marketing message […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Zero Deaths, Zero Cars, Zero Tundra Voles

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 9, 2014 | No Comments

Special guest Damien Newton of Streetsblog LA joins Jeff and me on this episode to tell us all about the Los Angeles DOT’s new strategic plan, which includes a Vision Zero goal: zero traffic deaths by 2025, a vision all of our cities should get behind. He walks us through the oddities of LA politics and […]

Census Data Shows How Much Less Millennials and Gen-Xers Commute by Car

By Joseph Kane and Adie Tomer | Oct 8, 2014 | No Comments

Cross-posted from Brookings’ The Avenue blog. This article is the second in a short series examining new Census data on transportation trends. Nationally, most commuters are still revving up their cars to get to work every morning, but the picture is more complicated when you look across different age groups. Based on the latest Census data from […]

So Your City Is Adding HOT Lanes. Will They Work for Transit?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 7, 2014 | No Comments

High-occupancy vehicle lanes can help incentivize carpooling (and let solo drivers sit in punishing congestion). But too often, transportation agencies spend millions of dollars to widen the road to make carpool lanes, instead of simply designating existing lanes. To recoup some of the expense, the agencies also let drivers pay to use the new “high-occupancy/toll […]

Livable Streets or Tall Buildings? Cities Can Have Both

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 6, 2014 | No Comments

Kaid Benfield’s new blog post on density is getting a lot of buzz over at NRDC’s Switchboard blog. Benfield, a planner/lawyer/professor/writer who co-founded both LEED’s Neighborhood Development rating system and the Smart Growth America coalition, has some serious street cred when it comes to these matters. And on this one, he’s with Danish architect Jan Gehl, […]

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