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Want to Improve Traffic Safety? Let People Get Around Without Driving
This ad is being aired across Missouri to convince voters to OK a three-quarter-cent sales tax that would raise $5.4 billion for transportation projects -- mostly highways -- over 10 years. The spots have been airing heavily in the run-up to the August 5 election, supported by millions of dollars from construction companies that hope to cash in.
July 31, 2014
Senate Tees Up Last-Minute Showdown on Transpo Funding
With just two work days left before the federal transportation funding source dips into the red, Congress is moving toward a high-stakes showdown over how to close the gap.
July 30, 2014
9 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Transit Still Struggling to Recover
Next month will mark nine years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, flooding nearly 80 percent of the city. In the wake of disaster, the city has demonstrated remarkable resilience. Its population has rebounded to about 86 percent of where it stood before the flooding.
July 28, 2014
What’s the Best Way to Tax Parking?
Taxing parking, the way Pittsburgh does, can make downtowns livelier and encourage a healthier mix of transportation options.
July 25, 2014
How to Breathe Cleaner Air While Biking: Ride at 11 MPH
Portland State University Ph.D candidate Alex Bigazzi has been biking around Portland with a $300 homebuilt air quality monitor. His goal: to get a sense of how much pollution he was breathing and how to minimize exposure to harmful fumes. Bigazzi has recently been sharing his findings around Portland.
July 24, 2014
America’s Myopic Public Debate About Tolling Roads
Seattle is getting ready to embark on a construction project that will put the squeeze on a few of its major highways. This event, ironically, served as a jumping off point for local media to indignantly demand a tolling "holiday" on the SR 520 floating bridge.
July 22, 2014
Will Texas DOT Gouge Another Highway Through Dallas?
The Trinity Toll Road embodies Texas's destructive compulsion for expanding highways.
July 21, 2014
We Need a New Term to Describe Uber and Lyft
Companies like Uber and Lyft make any car owner a potential paid chauffeur, and their services are increasingly widespread in American cities.
July 18, 2014
St. Louis to Pedestrians: Drop Dead
Here's a great example of the wrong way to handle a tricky pedestrian crossing in your town.
July 17, 2014