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Active Transportation Big in ‘INVEST’ Earmarks
An unprecedented number of infrastructure projects earmarked in the House infrastructure bill would serve pedestrians, micromobility riders, and people who use assistive devices, on top of the robust increases in core programs that already fund infrastructure for those modes.
June 14, 2021
Advocates Overjoyed with New and Improved INVEST Act
It's “arguably the most transformative transportation bill of our lifetimes,” one advocate said.
June 11, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Putting City Character and Authenticity in Context
This week we’re joined once again by author Chuck Wolfe to talk about his book "Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character."
June 11, 2021
Study: Complete Streets Lead to Better Media Coverage of Crashes
Complete streets policies don't just reduce car crashes — they may even improve how those crashes are covered by the media, a study shows.
June 10, 2021
Are Heavy EVs More Dangerous to U.S. Walkers?
A whole lot of heavy electric cars are likely to roll onto U.S. streets soon — but the U.S. hasn’t bothered to answer the question of how fatal they’ll be to pedestrians in the event of a crash.
June 9, 2021
The Sustainable Transport Advocate’s Cheat Sheet to Infrastructure Year
Washington is in the thick of negotiating two major infrastructure bills that could reshape American transportation for decades. Here's a primer you can come back to again and again.
June 7, 2021
Why Regulators Aren’t Taming the U.S. Megacar Crisis
Federal regulators have known about the inherent dangers that large vehicles pose to vulnerable road users since the mid-1970s, but have done almost nothing to stop it — and they probably won’t because of who we are as a nation, a new legal research paper argues.
June 4, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: More Highways, More Driving
This week, we're talking about the disconnect between techno-optimists and urbanists in climate change approach (whoa!).
June 4, 2021
Study: AV Taxis Would Speed Up Climate Change
Autonomous vehicles may make our skies dirtier, even if they’re shared and electric, a new study finds.
June 4, 2021
Freeways Without a Future
A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of BIPOC residents were forcibly displaced — including the site of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
June 2, 2021
