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What Did UCLA Really Discover About Millennials’ Reasons for Driving Less?
Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits.
November 5, 2013
Crack-Smoking Aside — Does Rob Ford Have a Drunk Driving Problem?
What's the best way describe the state of Rob Ford's mayoralty in Toronto? At this point, "train wreck" might be too kind.
November 5, 2013
MIT Study: Benefits of Placemaking Go Deeper Than Better Places
For two Sundays every summer, a three-mile loop between downtown Fargo, Minnesota, and nearby Moorhead is transformed. The open streets event StreetsAlive draws between 6,000 and 8,000 people -- on bikes, sneakers and rollerblades -- into the space that is normally occupied by cars.
November 1, 2013
Brookings: “Cash for Clunkers” Wasn’t Worth It
Turns out paying people to buy cars isn't a great policy for the economy or the environment. That's the determination of a pair of Brookings Institution researchers who evaluated the effectiveness of the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program.
November 1, 2013
State DOTs Brazenly Request a Blank Check to Build More Highways
“This is a money and power grab.”
October 31, 2013
New Wave of Development Follows Streetcar Construction in Mid-Sized Cities
When selecting a parking lot along the Kansas City streetcar line as the site for a 50-unit, five-story apartment building, Boulder-based developer Linden Street Partners was clear: “The streetcar is the big thing that drew us, absolutely,” the company's Scott Richardson told the Kansas City Star. “We like the demographics and the economic trends. I walked the area and liked the site.”
October 29, 2013
How to “Build a Better Burb”: Advice From Author June Williamson
The suburbs are changing. As cities grow in population and the poverty once associated with urban areas becomes more widely dispersed, even the meaning of "the suburbs" is evolving in the popular consciousness.
October 25, 2013
Distracted Driving Is Claiming the Lives of More Pedestrians and Cyclists
Total traffic deaths have declined nationwide in recent years, but the same has not held true for the most vulnerable people on the streets: cyclists and pedestrians. In 2011, 130 more pedestrians were killed in traffic than the year before, a 3 percent increase, while 54 more people lost their lives while biking, an increase of 8 percent. The same year, overall traffic deaths declined 2 percent.
October 24, 2013
Was TIGER Eliminated in the Shutdown Deal?
Soon after the government shutdown ended, we heard murmurs that the TIGER grant program for innovative transportation projects had been a casualty of the negotiations.
October 24, 2013