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What Explains the Gender Gap in Walking?
While infrastructure matters a great deal, not enough emphasis has been placed on other types of barriers facing women and girls.
March 8, 2018
Washington State Dems Poised to Steal From Transit and Education to Appease Car Owners
They're so motivated to lower taxes on drivers, they're willing to steal from transit riders and homeless students in the process.
March 8, 2018
Bike to the Future: Portland Uses Bikes to Rethink 70 Years of Strip Malls
Portland's Halsey Street carries five bikes in a normal rush hour. The city thinks dramatic upgrades can make it a model for suburban retrofits.
March 8, 2018
America’s Pedestrian Safety Crisis Isn’t Getting Any Better
Pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed over the last five years. In 2017, nearly 6,000 people were killed while walking on American streets.
March 6, 2018
Snapping Together a Better Bus Stop
American cities are discovering a way to quickly improve bus boarding using modular plastic pads.
March 5, 2018
A Brief History of How American Transportation Engineers Resisted Bike Lanes
A new paper looks at what led the American engineering establishment to fall decades behind other countries on the development of bike infrastructure.
March 2, 2018
A New Neighborhood Will Replace a Sunken Rochester Highway
With a portion of the Inner Loop highway filled in, Rochester is ready to reconnect its downtown to the East End neighborhood.
March 2, 2018
Talking Headways Podcast: More Than Just a Transit Line
This week we’re joined by Jonathan Sage Martinson, former director of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative in the Twin Cities. Jonathan discusses the collaborative's work on the Green Line light rail corridor between Minneapolis and St. Paul, and how one member got the FTA to change its regulations.
March 2, 2018
Are American Cities Making Progress on Traffic Safety?
In several cities, traffic fatalities fell much more sharply last year than in the nation as a whole. But it's too soon to draw conclusions.
March 1, 2018
Boston’s Best Bet for Better Transit: Modernizing Commuter Rail
The region's 390-mile commuter rail system is slow and offers sketchy service. But it has a lot of potential.
March 1, 2018
