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Friday’s Headlines 03/05/2021 and Get on the Bus: Transit Justice Forum
By Streetsblog Denver |
Get on the Bus: Transit Justice Forum online event is March 25. The five people who will help select Denver's next independent monitor. U.S. Crash Death Rates Hit Highest Level in Almost a Century. More headlines.
REPORT: Crash Death Rates in 2020 Hit Highest Level in Almost a Century
By Kea Wilson |
Total annual mileage dropped about 13 percent during the pandemic, meaning that the death rate was actually the highest it's been since 1924.
Thursday’s Headlines 03/04/2021 and Denver is on a Centuries-Long Pace to Build Sidewalks
By Streetsblog Denver |
Denver is trying to produce ‘handshakes’ between people, cars and traffic signals. And Denver is on a centuries-long pace to build out sidewalks. Boulder Valley School District has Colorado's first electric school bus. More headlines.
Opinion: How Elected Officials Can Improve Public Transit: It Starts with Actually Riding the Bus
By Kea Wilson |
While local officials debate the best ways to improve their respective transit systems, the truth is that most of them lack a real-world perception of their own local transit systems.
Talking Headways Podcast: City Legibility and Wayfinding
By Jeff Wood |
A podcast on why it's important to sometimes get lost.
Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support ‘Right-Sizing’ City Asphalt
By Kea Wilson |
The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.