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Americans Are Poised to Drive Less In 2020

By Aaron Short | Jan 2, 2020 | No Comments

Americans don't usually make New Year's resolutions to drive their cars less, but it may be happening anyway.

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Think Tank Offers Road Map to Break the Car Culture

By Aaron Short | Dec 9, 2019 | No Comments

Congress should stop splurging on new highways and instead expand transit to help Americans break their century-long addiction to a device that is killing us, the car, a D.C. institute says.

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Former Mass Gov. Mike Dukakis: Driving Is For Turkeys

By Aaron Short | Dec 1, 2019 | No Comments

"Don’t spend any more money on highways," says Mike Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and onetime Democratic presidential nominee.

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Trump Guts Obama-Era Transit Funding to Build Roads

By Aaron Short | Nov 13, 2019 | No Comments

Obama allocated 28 percent of federal grants to transit. It's 8.5 percent under Trump. And funding for bike and pedestrian projects dropped to zero.

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Report: Uber’s Software Flaws Led to Fatal Crash

By Aaron Short | Nov 7, 2019 | No Comments

The self-driving Uber car that killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 was not programmed to identify pedestrians outside of a crosswalk and lacked software that could have spared her life, a federal safety agency said.