Coronavirus

"Cash for Clunkers" was a clunker of a policy. Let's not repeat that mistake.

Three members of Congress are pushing the feds to provide financial relief to automakers during COVID-19. That didn't go so well 11 years ago.

Let's unpack last week's Uber-Lime deal. It's not as weird as it sounds.

Drivers aren’t just speeding up on our empty roads — they’re also braking harder, scrolling cell phones longer, and crashing more, new data show. In the five weeks after many states announced lockdown orders on March 16, the data company Zendrive said drivers’ use of cell phones behind the wheel is up 38 percent over […]

The U.S. has a long and disturbing history of imposing bad policies on walkers — and selectively enforcing the good ones.

Travel times will rise dramatically — and by as much as 42 minutes each way in San Francisco! — if cities don't encourage residents to return public buses and trains and stay out of their cars when the coronavirus pandemic is over.

Let's get creative with the 70 percent of public space dedicated to storing and moving cars. There are a ton of extraordinary things the public can do with that valuable real estate.

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Smart Growth America and is republished with permission. The burgeoning open streets movement brought on by the pandemic has created more space for people, provided lessons in how to quickly test ideas successfully (like in Minneapolis and Oakland) and unsuccessfully (like in New York City), and shown that […]

The Peach State is in a pickle — essentially choosing between safety for all and the mobility of drivers.