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How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)
Streets that fork at non-right angles create complicated intersections with dangerous sight lines and signals with too many phases. Here's an innovative fix.
February 4, 2019
San Diego Planning Commission Approves ‘Transit Priority’ Parking Reforms
San Diego is on track to eliminate parking requirements within a half-mile of major public transit stops
February 1, 2019
Orange County Plans a Four-Mile Parking-Protected Bike Lane
Orange County officials presented a proposal to reduce travel lanes and add a parking-protected bike lane on a four-mile stretch of Hazard Avenue, which connects Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Westminster.
February 1, 2019
Rhode Island Looting Biking and Walking Funds for Highways
Almost one dozen biking and walking projects across the state of Rhode Island are in jeopardy after a state agency decided to transfer $27 million in federal money dedicated to active transportation to highways and administrative expenses over the next 10 years.
January 31, 2019
Talking Headways Podcast: Does Your Street Bring You Joy?
We talk about livable streets — live from the Brooklyn Podcast Festival!
January 31, 2019
Congestion Pricing, Often Attacked as Inequitable, Is Actually the Cure for Inequitable Transportation
The best way to ensure that congestion pricing doesn't hurt the poor is to make sure revenues from new tolls support better transit service — not just build more highways.
January 30, 2019
New House Transportation Chair: ‘We Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel’
Peter Defazio, the new chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, talks bikes, pedestrians and transit — and getting us off fossil fuel.
January 29, 2019
Baltimore May Imprison E-Scooter Speeders
Legislation being considered by the City Council would give police the option of jailing e-scooter riders for up to 30 days for minor infractions.
January 28, 2019
New Study of E-Scooter Injuries Raises More Questions than it Answers
The Journal of the American Medical Association is pushing for helmets, but the actual data is still open to interpretation.
January 28, 2019
Seattle’s Viadoom: The ‘Carmageddon’ That Wasn’t
We've seen this before: Freeways induce driving and when one closes people adapt their choices accordingly. There is no "carmageddon" after all.
January 25, 2019