Study: E-Taxis Increase Private Car Ownership in Many Cities
"Ride-hailing" apps once lauded for their potential to help end private car ownership are actually increasing it in many cities, a new study finds.
January 8, 2021
US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
The 18th Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced her resignation following a violent riot at the nation's capitol by predominantly white Trump supporters that went largely unchecked by law enforcement for hours, reminding many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.
January 7, 2021
Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Seating
When we talk about increasing access to sustainable transportation, many street safety advocates fail to talk about placing benches with anywhere near the fervor with which we talk laying train track or building bike lanes. That needs to change.
January 7, 2021
Georgia Senate Wins Put Major Transportation Reform Within Reach
Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
January 6, 2021
Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops
A new Virginia law will prohibit police from utilizing one of the most outrageous pretexts to harass people of color: walking in the street outside of a designated crosswalk.
January 4, 2021
Goodbye to 2020, a Truly Unimaginable Year for Sustainable Transportation
What a crazy year — but if we take a moment to look back and think about all that happened in 2020, we might find ourselves finally ready to seize the sustainable transportation future.
December 30, 2020
‘We Could Do Without Urban Planning’: Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly
"The truth is, we could do without urban planning. And if we did, that wouldn’t mean that no one would be thinking intentionally about how to make cities. The instrument, the arm, the machine [for] city-making — it's got to go."
December 22, 2020
Feds Hail Lower Road Deaths But Crashes, Injuries Increased
Walking and cycling fatalities on U.S. roadways declined slightly in 2019 — but total crashes and injuries increased, according to just-released final federal numbers for last year.
December 18, 2020
Study: The U.S. Can Afford to Build More Rail
The persistent myth that it just costs more to build train lines in the U.S. than it does abroad is mostly bunk, a new analysis finds — but costs quickly balloon when we start building them underground, for reasons that researchers can't yet fully explain.
December 18, 2020
What Biden’s Other Cabinet Picks Might Mean For Sustainable Transportation
Pete Buttigieg drew most of the attention earlier this week, but two other key cabinet appointments this week could signal that electric vehicles remain at the center of the President-elect's climate strategy — despite evidence that transit, walking and biking is far more critical to cutting greenhouse gases.
December 17, 2020
