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Fake Jaywalking Tickets for Kids: A Sad Reflection of Our Awful Streets
Who is responsible for the safety of kids on the street?
April 21, 2016
Schools, Streets, and the Deadly Negligence of State DOTs
Here is a truly heartbreaking story about the price we pay for prioritizing cars over people on our streets.
April 19, 2016
Louisville’s New Goal: Reduce Driving
Louisville isn't known as a transit-rich, bikeable city, but it is drafting a blueprint to change that. Move Louisville, the region's new long-term transportation plan, envisions a future with less driving and more active transportation.
April 19, 2016
The Big Shakeup at America’s Transit Agency Trade Group
In a blockbuster development, New York's MTA has withdrawn from membership in APTA, the industry organization representing American transit agencies.
April 15, 2016
Annual Bike-Share Passes Now Cost Just $5 for Low-Income D.C. Residents
Cities all over the country have been experimenting with ways to make bike-share service accessible to people who don't have a credit card and about $100 to drop all at once on an annual membership.
April 14, 2016
A Big Opportunity to Reform the Vicious Cycle of Highway Expansion
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx made headlines recently with a speech about how America needs to rethink its approach to urban highways. But U.S. DOT's influence is limited. States have the real power when it comes spending federal transportation funds, however, and a lot of states are still stuck in the cycle of addressing traffic congestion by widening highways, which generates more traffic, and the cycle repeats ad infinitum.
April 13, 2016
America’s “New” Rail Systems Are Showing Their Age
What should we make of the recent headline-grabbing service disruptions at Washington Metro and BART? This chart from Houston transit advocate Christof Spieler offers some important perspective.
April 11, 2016
Transit Priority Streets Making a Comeback in D.C.
Forty years ago, the Washington region had 60 miles of bus lanes on its streets, a network that was erased once Metrorail started operating. Today passengers make about half a million trips on Metro buses each weekday, not a great deal less than Metrorail, but there is no network of priority streets for buses.
April 6, 2016
DC Used to Fly the Skull and Cross-Bones to Mark Each Traffic Death
My, how things change.
April 5, 2016
Even Places With No Congestion Are Widening Highways
For every transportation agency trying to innovate and update policies for the 21st century, there are several thoughtlessly widening highways like it's still 1956.
April 4, 2016