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Will an Electric Vehicle Push Kill the Parking Reform Movement?
As President Biden pushes to install electric vehicle chargers across America, some advocates are wondering where they will all go – and if the effort will deal a blow to the movement reform parking policy in our cities.
April 27, 2021
Legislative Update: Bike Safety Stop Bill Passes CA Assembly
Now the CA Senate must weigh in
April 26, 2021
New Traffic Model Predicts How New Developments Will Affect Walkers
A new traffic forecasting model may soon give cities the tools they need to project how a proposed development will impact a pedestrian’s ability to get around — and rethink their decision if the stuff they want to build discourages people from walking.
April 26, 2021
Legislative Update: Long-awaited Speed Limit Flexibility Bill Moves Forward
A.B. 43 passed the Assembly Transportation Committee on a 15-0 vote.
April 19, 2021
Regulators Could Have Prevented Fatal Tesla Crash
Two Tesla passengers are dead, partly because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ignored calls from the National Transportation Safety Board to require automakers to implement safe driver monitoring technology in "driverless" vehicles.
April 19, 2021
Legislative Update: Bill to Remove Parking Minimums Near Transit Passes First Committee
Asm. Friedman's A.B. 1401 would allow developers to "right-size" the number of parking spaces
April 19, 2021
Op-Ed: Sure, Blame the Drivers — But the City is At Fault
A viral video out of California is sparking conversation about dangerous driving. But the real villain here is barely mentioned at all: a multi-lane street designed to encourage speeding,
April 15, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Call it the Manual Undermining Terrific Community Design (MUTCD)
We have met the enemy and it is the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
April 15, 2021
USDOT Grant Program Will Prioritize ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Equity’
The U.S. Department of Transportation is re-branding one of its largest discretionary grant programs to explicitly reward regional and local governments who put equity and sustainability first in their transportation projects. But some advocates are holding their applause until they see how the department will actually define those critical terms.
April 15, 2021
SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021 — The Finals: Québec City vs. Staten Island
After hundreds of nominations and 14 hard-fought battles, we're finally down to the last two sorry stops standing. And we need your help to determine which one deserves the title of the worst waiting area in North America — or should we say Amérique du Nord?
April 14, 2021