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USDOT Grant Program Will Prioritize ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Equity’

The U.S. Department of Transportation is re-branding one of its largest discretionary grant programs to explicitly reward regional and local governments who put equity and sustainability first in their transportation projects. But some advocates are holding their applause until they see how the department will actually define those critical terms.

April 14, 2021

USDOT Grant Program Will Prioritize ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Equity’

Streetsblog USA |Events

Buttigieg broadly commits to increased safety, equity, sustainability – details pending

Sec. Pete Buttigieg presented an ambitious vision for a more just and sustainable transportation system in the U.S. We’ll be eagerly following the funding, regulation and policy specifics of how this vision can be realized.

March 26, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Boondoggles

Racist Texas Highway Boondoggle Dealt Blow by Buttigieg’s FHWA

One of Texas's most-notorious highway expansion projects is being put on pause, thanks to a U.S. Department of Transportation that's newly committed to mitigating the racist impacts of federally funded transportation projects.

March 12, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Cars

Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support ‘Right-Sizing’ City Asphalt

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.

March 3, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Bicycling

Opinion: An ‘Active Transportation Administration’? No, Thanks

Editor's note This article was written in response to an article on Streetsblog USA about a proposal to create an active transportation administration or czar at the U.S. Department of Transportation. We are pleased to publish multiple perspectives on this important issue.

February 7, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Biden Harris

Why Buttigieg’s Midwest Roots Might Make Him a Great USDOT Secretary

Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.

February 3, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Autonomous cars

Five Highlights from Pete Buttigieg’s Confirmation Hearing

The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.

January 21, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Biden Harris

Memo to Buttigieg: USDOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration

Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.

January 20, 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 |DOT

What Secretary Pete Could Mean for the US DOT

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be Secretary of Transportation. Whatever you think, remember that this guy is one of the few politicians who acknowledges the "many ways we subsidize driving." So there's that.

December 15, 2020

Pete Buttigieg

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