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Goodbye to 2020, a Truly Unimaginable Year for Sustainable Transportation
What a crazy year — but if we take a moment to look back and think about all that happened in 2020, we might find ourselves finally ready to seize the sustainable transportation future.
January 5, 2021
Five Road Widening Myths That Are Delaying Climate Action
These convenient excuses help your transportation department justify widening and adding highways – but they’re dead wrong.
December 29, 2020
Caltrans Statement on Equity: What Does it Mean?
Caltrans makes a promise, and communities and advocates will need to hold them accountable to it. It won't be easy.
December 23, 2020
‘We Could Do Without Urban Planning’: Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly
"The truth is, we could do without urban planning. And if we did, that wouldn’t mean that no one would be thinking intentionally about how to make cities. The instrument, the arm, the machine [for] city-making — it's got to go."
December 22, 2020
Feds Hail Lower Road Deaths But Crashes, Injuries Increased
Walking and cycling fatalities on U.S. roadways declined slightly in 2019 — but total crashes and injuries increased, according to just-released final federal numbers for last year.
December 21, 2020
What Biden’s Other Cabinet Picks Might Mean For Sustainable Transportation
Pete Buttigieg drew most of the attention earlier this week, but two other key cabinet appointments this week could signal that electric vehicles remain at the center of the President-elect's climate strategy — despite evidence that transit, walking and biking is far more critical to cutting greenhouse gases.
December 17, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Infrastructure Only Limited by Our Imagination — And Our Governance
What if it was easier to lend your expertise to government?
December 17, 2020
New COVID-19 Relief Bill Starves Transit — Again
But it's better than nothing at all.
December 16, 2020
Why the history of racism in transportation enforcement and planning still matters today
Mobility justice advocates discussed how the past must inform efforts to address present-day transportation inequities.
December 15, 2020
What Secretary Pete Could Mean for the US DOT
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be Secretary of Transportation. Whatever you think, remember that this guy is one of the few politicians who acknowledges the "many ways we subsidize driving." So there's that.
December 15, 2020
