What Explains the Decline in Driving Among Young People?
New research from UCLA concludes that while attitudes toward driving may be shifting, economic factors explain most of the recent decline in driving among younger Americans.
March 29, 2017
A Swedish Transit Agency Cuts Through the Autonomous Car Hype
The ad uses car commercial cliches — tight shots of a sleek exterior, an overbearing soundtrack — to express a point that doesn’t get made often enough: We already have the technology to address a lot of the problems that self-driving cars purport to solve.
March 29, 2017
Why Do Teenage Girls Lose Interest in Biking?
Jennifer Dill at Portland State University is taking a close look at why girls' attitudes about biking change over time. In a study of 300 Portland-area families, she observed that a gender gap in attitudes toward cycling isn't apparent in younger kids, but when girls reach adolescence, they don't view cycling as positively as boys do.
March 29, 2017
Today’s Headlines
Wall Street’s Worried About the Increasing Rate of Auto Loan Defaults (Business Insider) Driverless Ubers Already Back on the Streets of San Francisco After Arizona Crash Last Weekend (SFist) Brilliant Swedish Bus Ad Pokes Fun at the Hype Over Self-Driving Cars (The Verge) Seattle’s Pronto Bike Share Shuts Down Tomorrow (Seattle Times) Passenger Rail in Florida … Continued
March 29, 2017
Parking Madness: Hartford vs. Cleveland
Streetsblog is on the hunt for the North American transit station that's most severely undermined by excess surface parking, and today you'll meet the last two contestants in the running.
March 28, 2017
Highway Projects Won’t Save the Rust Belt
Highway mega-projects remain tempting to struggling cities and regions in the Rust Belt. But evidence shows they shift economic activity away from existing business districts and don't generate lasting improvements.
March 28, 2017
Parking Madness: Denver vs. Pleasanton
In today's matchup, a depressing abundance of commuter rail parking in the Bay Area takes on a mammoth parking crater enveloping three separate light rail stops in Denver.
March 27, 2017
How a Toledo Mom Stopped a Destructive Road Widening
Dana Dunbar was new to transportation policy and activism. But that didn't stop her from waging a successful grassroots campaign against a road widening in her neighborhood.
March 27, 2017
Nashville Is Ready to Embrace Transit
Nashville planners have put together a $6 billion transit expansion plan that calls for four light rail lines, three bus rapid transit routes, a commuter rail connection, and more. And it looks like a referendum on raising local taxes to pay for the package would fare well, according to a new poll.
March 27, 2017
Parking Madness: Norfolk vs. New York
Today, a terminal station in Norfolk, Virginia, goes up against a stadium complex in Queens.
March 24, 2017
