A New Neighborhood Will Replace a Sunken Rochester Highway
With a portion of the Inner Loop highway filled in, Rochester is ready to reconnect its downtown to the East End neighborhood.
March 2, 2018
Are American Cities Making Progress on Traffic Safety?
In several cities, traffic fatalities fell much more sharply last year than in the nation as a whole. But it's too soon to draw conclusions.
March 1, 2018
Boston’s Best Bet for Better Transit: Modernizing Commuter Rail
The region's 390-mile commuter rail system is slow and offers sketchy service. But it has a lot of potential.
March 1, 2018
Is the Hyperloop Taking Cities for a Ride?
The Hyperloop has never carried human passengers. Yet officials signed off on a grant based on the promise of Cleveland-Chicago route in just three to five years.
February 28, 2018
Democracy Dies in… Bus Lanes?
Advocates successfully got Montgomery County to consider adding bus lanes to its BRT plan. Anti-transit NIMBYs see a conspiracy.
February 26, 2018
How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction
Adjusting meter prices increased the availability of spaces while reducing illegal parking.
February 26, 2018
The Environmentalist Blind Spot on Transportation
Cheering for a few more electric cars while highway sprawl continues unabated is not going to solve the climate crisis.
February 23, 2018
The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion
We wouldn't throw people in jail for shorting a parking meter $3. And we shouldn't do it for transit riders either.
February 22, 2018
When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby
One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
February 21, 2018
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
Montclair, California, is the latest American city to fall for the dangerous fiction that outlawing the act of walking while looking at a mobile device will make people safer.
February 20, 2018
