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Bike Group to Feds: Helmet Laws are Bad
The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals has come out against mandatory helmet laws in a letter this week to the NTSB. We publish it in full.
January 17, 2020
Car-Dependency Makes City Life Too Expensive
If we truly want to reckon with our national poverty crisis, we have to make going car-lite or car-free a possibility for more people.
January 16, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: An Operating System for the Public Right of Way
This week, we talk to Hugh Martin of Lacuna about open source ways to operate city streets in the future.
January 16, 2020
Why Do Micromobility Companies Keep Losing Money?
Micromobility companies are struggling — but only because cities don't see them as providing a public service that deserves public investment.
January 15, 2020
Buttigieg Plan: Vision Zero Plus Other Goodies
Mayor Pete's transportation plan would create a national Vision Zero plan, charge drivers more for their use of the roads, build more public transit, and create "sustainable infrastructure" jobs — but it also has some proposals that might undermine all of it.
January 15, 2020
Kea Wilson: The Making of an Advocate
Streetsblog's newest editor joins us with an opening essay about her beginnings as a livable streets advocate.
January 14, 2020
How Cars Waste Space — In Six Simple Images
Let's hope 2020 is the year when graphics like these finally fall out of date.
January 14, 2020
Emissions Report: Cars Are Still Our Biggest Problem
United States greenhouse gas emissions are down —but our cars are still pumping out pollution like they always have.
January 13, 2020
State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations
AASHTO-ld you so! State DOT association wants the same funding for highway construction — and no provisions to make roads safer.
January 10, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: AV Policy And The Future of the Bus
Let's talk about the reliable ol' bus — and the untested horrors of driverless cars.
January 9, 2020