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Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?

By Kea Wilson | Jan 26, 2021 | No Comments

A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network – and how to fix them – with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.

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What the History of Autonomous Vehicles Can Teach About Our Transportation Future

By Kea Wilson | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

Alex Davies new book, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car," offers a glimpse into an industry that will rapidly upend our transportation landscape – and some worry will kill even more vulnerable road users.

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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Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency

By Kea Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | No Comments

Joe Biden is president – the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.

Photo an SUV parked badly in a spot labeled for compact cars

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How to Stop Giving Parking Developers A Free Ride

By Joe Cortright | Jan 17, 2021 | No Comments

There are good reasons of efficiency and fairness for asking parking lot owners to pay more toward dealing with the costs they impose. A tax on parking could be one way to get it done.

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Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan

By Kea Wilson | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.

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NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike

By Kea Wilson | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Intro to the City’

By Jeff Wood | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

How do Black and Hispanic kids feel when they go into a Whole Foods? Not welcome, that's for sure. And therein lies a major problem.

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Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

By Kea Wilson | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.

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Advocate Urges Removal of S.F.’s “Beg Buttons”

By Roger Rudick | Jan 11, 2021 | No Comments

Beg buttons serve motorists at the expense of people who walk. It's time to correct this.

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State Senator Pushing ‘Idaho Stop’ Legalization Bill

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 11, 2021 | No Comments

An upstate State Senator has introduced a bill that would allow cyclists to slow-roll through stop signs and go through red lights after a quick full stop.

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