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Highway-Affiliated Pew Climate Report Favors “Clean” Cars Over Transit
Many transportation reformers were disappointed last week when the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released a report indicating that only clean car technology had a shot at significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The report dismissed smart growth development strategies and transit as trivial contributors to a lower-carbon economy.
January 20, 2011
Home Builders Urge Fannie, Freddie to Get Behind Mixed-Use Development
Urbanists have won an important victory in their campaign to reverse Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s biasagainst mixed-use development, enlisting the National Association of Home Builders to help push for a critical reform to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lending standards. The mortgage giants currently require that projects they finance be no more than 25 percent commercial (20 percent for Fannie and for multifamily HUD projects.)
January 19, 2011
Bicycle Advocates Thank LaHood, Talk Strategy
Last week was a big week for bike advocates: They had a pow-wow with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, launched a new coalition, and refined their strategy for the 112th Congress.
January 17, 2011
Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No.
The first time Adolfo Hernandez went to the National Bike Summit, he got a sense of just how monochromatic the livability movement can be.
January 14, 2011
Creative Crusaders Who Inspired Us in 2010
Travelling the country this past year promoting our book Carjacked, we met some pretty remarkable people who are working to reduce the price Americans pay for mobility. In the book we detail how our car dependent transportation system offers an awesome array of downsides, though they are often obscured by the auto industry’s relentless marketing blizzard.
January 14, 2011
Twin Cities Rein in Highway Expansions, Tame Runaway Transpo Spending
The Twin Cities region is reassessing the role of highways in its transportation system.
January 12, 2011
Mica is “Pretty Confident” That New Rules Won’t Starve Highway Trust Fund
The Journal of Commerce reported yesterday that the House Transportation Committee chair, Rep. John Mica (R-FL), is “’pretty confident’ in the assurances he has received in talks with House leaders” that recent changes to House rules wouldn’t jeopardize Highway Trust Fund spending.
January 11, 2011
Household Deficit Reduction: Transit Saves People Almost $10K a Year
With gas prices at their highest level since October 2008, the American Public Transportation Association’s monthly Transit Savings Report estimates that transit riders save, on average, $9,656 a year.
January 11, 2011
Combat Joblessness, Stripe a Bike Lane
A bummer of a jobs report came out Friday, showing that although unemployment dropped to its lowest point in 19 months, it's still way higher than economists had hoped.
January 10, 2011
We’re Pulling for You, Gabby Giffords
Our hearts are with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords today as she struggles to recover from the brutal attack this weekend. By now you must have heard about Saturday’s shocking massacre in a Tucson supermarket parking lot, leaving six dead and 13 wounded. Among the wounded is the Tucson area Congresswoman, shot point-blank in the head and now fighting for her life.
January 10, 2011