Aaron Short
Recent Posts
Not So FAST: Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals
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A Senate proposal to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into new freeways will wipe out the Biden administration’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030.
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
ZOOM CALL: Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan
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Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.
Q&A: Eric Jacobsen on How Cars Make us Lonelier
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The author of "Three Pieces of Glass" shows how the phone, the TV and the car windshield make us so damn unhappy.
Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways
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“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”
State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations
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Transportation bureaucrats want the same spending ratios for highways and transit that Congress gave out five years ago, keeping us wedded to our cars.
Trump Administration Keeps Hands Off Self-Driving Cars
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At the annual Las Vegas tech geek fest on Wednesday, USDOT Secretary Elaine Chao refused to put a leash on driverless car technology.
Congress Vows to Fight Trump’s Environmental Rule Change
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Congressional leaders are bracing for a fight with the Trump administration over changes to the environmental review process.
Norwegian Capital Achieves Vision Zero: No Traffic Fatalities
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Secrets from Oslo, where the zero of Vision Zero is taken seriously.
Americans Are Poised to Drive Less in 2020
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Americans don't usually make New Year's resolutions to drive their cars less, but it may be happening anyway.
Winners and Losers In $1.4T Fed Spending Bill
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Good news for transit riders who work for nonprofits, bad news for electric-car buyers.
There is Still Structural Racism in Transportation: Report
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Smart Growth America lays out a strategy for healthier, more equitable communities.