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The Bus Not Taken: How Easy Auto Loans Reinforced Car Dependence and Killed Transit Ridership
Easy credit added 5 million cars to American roads in 2015 -- a blow to transit agencies and a precarious situation for borrowers.
February 16, 2018
Seattle Cut Car Commuting Downtown While Adding 60,000 Jobs
Don't let anyone tell you a healthier economy is inextricably linked to more driving.
February 15, 2018
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
It's not a coincidence that bicycling remains dangerous in our helmet-obsessed safety culture.
February 14, 2018
Suburban Segregationist Brooks Patterson Breaks Up Detroit’s Hard-Won Transit Coalition
Representing the region's primarily white northern suburbs, Patterson is blocking a transit measure that would improve job access for black Detroiters.
February 13, 2018
Baltimore’s Surprise Subway Shutdown: Larry Hogan Passes the Buck
While the Maryland governor prepares for a bonanza of toll road spending, he let the most important transit route in the state fall into dangerously poor condition.
February 13, 2018
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Another Con
The White House outline does nothing to reform a half-century of highway-centric federal policy that has left America choking on traffic.
February 12, 2018
Former California Mayor Calls New Bikeway “Urban Rape”
"No other word would be proper" to describe the bike lane besides "rape," according to the former mayor of San Luis Obispo.
February 9, 2018
Texas DOT Aims for More People to Get Killed in Traffic
Texas is still planning for more traffic and more asphalt, and as a result, its forecasts still expect a growing number of people to lose their lives in traffic crashes.
February 9, 2018
Evidence From Boston That Uber Is Making Traffic Worse
Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft are exacerbating rush-hour traffic jams in Boston, according to new research by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
February 8, 2018
Talking Headways Podcast: This Is Not Mapping Just for Humans
This week I'm joined by Christof Hellmis, a vice president at HERE Technologies in Berlin, Germany. HERE invited me to CES in Las Vegas to check out the next wave of data mapping. I got to sit down with Christof and a couple of other folks to talk about how mapping and location data will play an increasingly important role in the new transportation technologies.
February 8, 2018