Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about U.S. DOT

This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar

By Kea Wilson | Mar 9, 2021 | No Comments

Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years, and the one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.

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

By Kea Wilson | Mar 3, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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Memo to Buttigieg: Fix Our National Traffic Control Standards

By Kea Wilson | Feb 7, 2021 | No Comments

The feds will finally revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets standards for signs, markings and signals that help road users – and, eventually, autonomous vehicles – safely move through our communities.

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Biden Decries US DOT’s Destruction of Black Communities — But Will His Administration Make Reparations?

By Kea Wilson | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments

President Biden won points among some antiracist transportation advocates for calling out federal highway projects for destroying Black communities – and then lost points by failing to call for the USDOT itself to make reparations to the people it has harmed.

Pete Buttigieg at his confirmation hearing

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Five Highlights from Pete Buttigieg’s Confirmation Hearing

By Kea Wilson | Jan 21, 2021 | No Comments

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

Photo of Pete Buttigieg inset with photo of pedestrian walking on street shoulder with no sidwwalk

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Memo to Buttigieg: USDOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration

By Kea Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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