Aaron Short

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Report: Bigger Bike Budgets Boost the Boom

By Aaron Short | Aug 25, 2021 | No Comments

The Biden administration should pour billions of dollars into a variety of bike projects because the investment will generate thousands of jobs while also obviously greening the way Americans get around, advocates said this week, citing a new report on the economic benefits of cycling investments.

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Not So FAST: Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals

By Aaron Short | May 27, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Image: J.B. Forbes for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, via Creative Commons

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U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report

By Aaron Short | May 26, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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ZOOM CALL: Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan

By Aaron Short | Apr 29, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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Q&A: Eric Jacobsen on How Cars Make us Lonelier

By Aaron Short | Apr 19, 2021 | No Comments

The author of "Three Pieces of Glass" shows how the phone, the TV and the car windshield make us so damn unhappy.

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Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways

By Aaron Short | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments

“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.”

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State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations

By Aaron Short | Jan 11, 2020 | No Comments

Transportation bureaucrats want the same spending ratios for highways and transit that Congress gave out five years ago, keeping us wedded to our cars.