Last Friday, the U.S. DOT wowed sustainable transportation advocates with its list of grantees for the RAISE discretionary grant program (previously known as the BUILD program, and TIGER before that), which will funnel $1 billion dollars into transportation capital and planning projects across America — and stoked optimism for how the agency would spend the historic $100 billion in discretionary funding it just won with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.

"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."

The violence of car culture extends far beyond the obvious outrages of car crashes, pollution, destroyed communities and structural racism, a fascinating new paper argues.

City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues — but federal governments aren't stepping up to make it happen.

The agenda for "transport day" at COP26 Glasgow is dominated almost entirely by electric cars. So, in other words, the planet is screwed.

...especially if the Build Back Better Act passes through reconciliation later this month.

Sustainable transportation advocates are urging world leaders at COP26 to commit to a global goal to increase cycling mode share — because if they don't, there is "no conceivable way" for them to meet the summit's climate goals.

Most programs favored by sustainable transportation advocates have survived negotiations over the massive social infrastructure package that's held up the country's transportation ambitions for months — though a few of them have gotten a little skinnier. 

The Department of Transportation is promising radical new changes to federal approach to roadway safety following a report that showed the largest six-month increase in roadway fatalities ever recorded by the agency.

Top health leaders are encouraging families to get outside and trick-or-treat for the first time since the pandemic began, but advocates are urging them not to ignore another public health threat that threatens kids every Halloween: traffic violence. 

The Gateway City is a pedestrian graveyard. Walking deaths have doubled in the eight years since a safety plan was adopted in 2013.