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A group of Toronto performance artists/placemakers are behind this genius video.

As the COVID-19 outbreak ebbs overseas, cars are returning to the road en masse — and if America wants to avoid a similar surge in violent and toxic motor-vehicle travel, we should start preparing now, advocates say. China, one of the first countries to lift its lockdowns, is already experiencing a surge in motor-vehicle traffic […]

Missouri just admitted that it can't maintain all the roads it has. But this is not bad news if we act accordingly.

A top Columbia University doctor says that now is the time to accelerate our efforts to protect ourselves and our communities through a healthy environment. It is the only way forward, and we do not have time to waste.

The reason people die of coronavirus is because others are breathing and coughing and sneezing near them in close quarters. But cities have lots of space — if they just took some away from cars.

The city of Oakland is planning to open 74 miles of streets for cyclist and pedestrians so people can get outside and get some exercise with ample space for social distancing. The news was first announced via a town-hall meeting held yesterday evening with Oakland officials. During the meeting, officials presented the map below, taken […]

This silver lining is tarnished: The number of car crashes is plummeting, but the rate of car crashes is actually up in many cities — as are the injury and fatality rates for both drivers and vulnerable users.

We need more space — which means we need a new blueprint for how to do Open Streets events during this challenging global moment and beyond.

New crisis, same old mistakes. The Federal Transit Administration’s $25-billion COVID-19 public transit grant package contains much-needed lifelines for struggling transit agencies across the country — but the amount received by each agency did not take into account the new reality of the virus, but were allocated using the same formulas from normal years. As a […]