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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 |Donald Trump

The Five Worst Legacies of the Chao Years — And How to Undo Them

Secretary Elaine Chao's leadership of the Department of Transportation damaged our nation — both in what she did and what she failed to do, experts say.

November 9, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Coronavirus

Trump Admin Rejects Transit Mask Mandate, Endangering Transport — Again

The Trump administration declined the request from a prominent transit workers' union the same day the President was admitted to a tax payer-funded hospital for coronavirus.

October 7, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Study: We Can’t Fix Transportation-Related Climate Emissions With EVs Alone

The U.S. can’t simply electrify its way out of the transportation-related carbon disaster — and thinking that it can might actually delay what really works: shifting people away from private vehicle ownership, and towards mass and active transportation, a new study finds. In order to maintain our national car addiction and stay within a national […]

October 2, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Cars

Decoding Trump’s Racist ‘War on Suburbs’ Rhetoric

Trump claimed that an Obama housing rule was forcing communities to build high-density, low-income buildings in suburbia — or, as Trump put it, "mak[ing] sure there is no escape" from "the crime and chaos [found] in Democrat-run cities."

August 17, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Bill de Blasio

NYC Mayor to Trump: Speak Up And Save Our Cities Now

The mayor of America's largest city is calling out President Trump for turning his back on urban areas.

April 20, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car crashes

Trump Says COVID-19 Deaths May Be the Price We Pay For A Strong Economy — Just Like Traffic Deaths

It’s bad enough that most Americans think that 40,000 road deaths a year is just the price we pay for the freedom to go wherever we want whenever we want — but now that argument is being used by conservatives who want to abandon the health practices that can help us defeat the coronavirus. President […]

March 24, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Donald Trump

BREAKING: 10 Major Cities Unite to Urge Feds to Fund Better Urban Transit

President Trump is doing such a poor job of funding infrastructure in urban areas that 10 major cities have banded together to jointly demand immediate action.

March 13, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Boondoggles

Urban Transportation Funding To Fall as Rural America Cashes In Under Trump

It's a great time to be living in the middle of nowhere as President Trump directs more transportation funds to his rural base.

December 4, 2019

Streetsblog USA |Auto Makers

Five Ways Trump Is Wrong On California Emissions

The Trump administration revoked a waiver allowing California to set higher automobile emissions standards than the federal government. It's a bad idea.

September 17, 2019

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