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Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture

Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don't have to.

March 5, 2020

Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture

Would You Trade Your Parking Benefit for Cash?

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Greater Greater Washington and is republished here with permission. Individual companies have long elected to allow employees to trade their parking benefits for cash, of course, but a law that requires employers to offer the swap is a new idea. And when you think about it, it’s only fair […]

March 4, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Buried Highways

Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer

It's tunnel vision! Lawmakers in New York are looking to Seattle for advice on how to fix a crumbling highway — but the Emerald City's experiment with a highway tunnel is no model. Here's why.

March 4, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Streetsblog

New York May Create a ‘Crash Victims Bill of Rights’

Families for Safe Streets pioneers a first-in-the-nation plan to give victims of road violence the same rights that crime victims have.

March 4, 2020

Streetsblog USA |history

Auto Right-of-Way Laws Are Where America Went Wrong

Before the widespread adoption of the automobile, every road user had to think critically about whose turn it was to go — and a pedestrian in a car's path *always* meant the driver had to stand down.