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NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike

The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year – with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.

January 14, 2021

NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.

January 14, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Cars

Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal

Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.

January 10, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Why Highway Teardowns Make Great Infrastructure (and Equity) Investments

Progressive advocates are making the case that new infrastructure money would actually be best spent tearing urban highways down — and reinvesting in the Black and brown communities that those bad road projects tore apart decades ago.

December 9, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Memo to Feds: To Keep Seniors Safe on Our Roads, End Car Dependence

America's top federal safety agency is raising awareness this week about safety for older drivers, but largely ignoring how car dependence often forces seniors to take the wheel even when they can no longer do so safely.

December 8, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Cars

WARNING: Cars are Dangerous!

We warn cigarette buyers that they might expose their children to second-hand smoke. Why not warn drivers of their impact on society?

November 29, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Autonomous cars

Study: Drivers More Reckless When Their Cars Have More ‘Safe’ AV Tech

Automated vehicle technology was supposed to end car crashes forever — but a new study suggests that the more automated a car gets, the more reckless its driver may become.

November 19, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Automakers

As Biden Campaigned on Green Cars, U.S. Truck Sales Soared

A wave of U.S. car buyers nearly tied the all-time record for truck and SUV purchases, just weeks before the American people at large elected a President who wants to get rid of gas-guzzlers altogether by 2050.

November 10, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

STUDY: How Cars Are Making Us All Depressed (Even If We Don’t Drive)

A new study shows that vehicle pollution may have more to do with our mental health than anyone realized.

October 28, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Cars

Could Car Share Become a Part of Transit?

For more than 20 years, U.S. car-sharing services have failed to deliver on the promise of reducing private vehicle ownership at large scale — but an innovative new business model rolling out on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul soon may give the industry the jolt it needs.

October 21, 2020

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