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America’s Kids Deserve Better Than a Waymo Subscription
What do America's young people lose when they have to buy independence from a corporation that rents out driverless cars?
July 14, 2025
Best of 2024: The Real (Disappointing) Reason Why Gen Z Is Getting Fewer Drivers Licenses
Yes, fewer young adults are getting behind the wheel. No, it doesn't mean car culture is doomed.
December 30, 2024
How America’s ‘Soft Power’ Is Shaping Mobility Around the World — And How Cities Like Tirana Are Resisting it
The biggest infrastructure we had to fight to fix was the 10 centimeters between our ears — the mentality, the status symbol that the car brought. "
November 26, 2024
Bike-Friendly Campuses Can Inspire the Rest of Car-Centric America
A first-ever national summit will explore what makes a college or university bike friendly, and how higher ed can help create a better transportation culture in cities, too.
October 9, 2024
Q&A: Tell Congress to Require Female Crash Test Dummies
Drive US Forward's Maria Weston Kuhn on a bipartisan bill in Washington would require new cars undergo crash testing with dummies modeled after female bodies.
August 15, 2024
Historic Settlement Will Force Hawai’i DOT to Decarbonize and De-Center Cars
The first-of-its-kind legal settlement will force Hawai'i DOT to decarbonize and de-center cars. Which state will be next?
July 9, 2024
Zoomers Are Less Likely to Get Drivers Licenses — But They May Not Shift America’s Transportation Culture
Young Americans are getting fewer licenses — but it doesn't mean they're driving fewer miles.
June 3, 2024
Teens Are Demanding Greener Routes to School — And Climate Education When They Get There
"It's absolutely unreasonable for adults to expect young people to stop the climate crisis when we aren't even learning the basic facts about it in our schools."
October 5, 2023
Alhambra Locals Sound Off on Dangers for Kids Walking on Fremont Ave
The Sustainable SGV Coalition brought residents together for a brainstorm to make walking to Fremont Elementary safer for students
September 20, 2022
Youth Perspectives on Transportation: Free Public Transit for a More Just, Equitable, and Sustainable Urban L.A.
Building a broad-spectrum transit coalition will require removing the biggest barrier to use: transit fare
September 13, 2019
