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Talking Headways Podcast: Housing on the Bus Yard
Talking to SFMTA's Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project.
March 6, 2020
Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer
It's tunnel vision! Lawmakers in New York are looking to Seattle for advice on how to fix a crumbling highway — but the Emerald City's experiment with a highway tunnel is no model. Here's why.
March 4, 2020
The Broken Promises of the Ride-Hail Revolution
Uber, Lyft and their brethren promised to revolutionize mobility forever. Instead, they just exaggerated the worst aspects of car culture.
March 2, 2020
Study: Car Sticker Price is a Predictor of Driver Aggression Towards Walkers
The more expensive the car, the less likely the driver is to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. But why?
February 28, 2020
Streetsblog 101: Car Culture is a Toxic Masculinity Problem
Our primer on how car ads created the very idea of macho — and why it's killing us.
February 27, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: It Came from TRB (Part II)!
Hear it all: trip routing with smart phones, stop sign impacts on safety, how rain affects bus travel times, transit agency equity analysis, and much more!
February 27, 2020
Op-Ed: It takes more than car-shaming to change car use
People are most open to changing their travel habits during major life events, such as a move. But even a well-timed message isn’t enough.
February 27, 2020
Three Simple Ways to Make Cities More Walkable
America doesn’t need an ambitious pedestrian safety target. We need seven of them.
February 26, 2020
U.S. Breaks With World on Pledge to Cut Roadway Deaths
American delegates distanced themselves from key elements of a global safety pledge that would halve road deaths in 10 years.
February 25, 2020
Ten Simple Policies to Subtract Cars From Our Streets
Want less road carnage? We need fewer cars on the roads. Here are some tools cities are already using (and should consider using) to save lives and reduce auto use.
February 24, 2020
