One Year of Traffic Crashes Costs America $871 Billion
You can’t put a price tag on human life. But to address the scourge of traffic violence, it helps to measure how much harm it inflicts. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has done that by attaching a dollar figure to the economic loss and human suffering caused by traffic crashes.
May 30, 2014
The House GOP’s Campaign Strategy: Do Nothing on Transportation
A Senate committee has unanimously approved a transportation bill. Three other Senate committees are holding hearings on the bill. But over in the House? Crickets.
May 29, 2014
You’re Invited to Streetsblog’s First Annual Playdate in DC, This Saturday!
Got any plans this weekend?
May 28, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: Les Rues Are Made for Walking
Last week, Smart Growth America brought us the bad news: More than 47,000 people died while walking between 2003 and 2012. Most victims are killed on high-speed arterial roads. A disproportionate number are elderly or racial minorities.
May 28, 2014
Today’s Headlines
Per Capita Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Drops Again (Investing) LaHood Predicts “Nothing Introduced, Nothing Debated” in House on Transpo Bill (The Hill) Memorial Day Marks the Beginning of 100 Deadliest Days on the Roads (Boise Weekly, KSL, CNN) How Houston Plans to Boost Bus Ridership By 20 Percent Without Spending a Dime (Salon) Georgia Stalling Projects Because of Federal Funding Uncertainty (Savannah Morning … Continued
May 27, 2014
Why the Senate Transportation Bill Will Devastate Transit
Transit officials lined up today to make clear that holding transit spending at current levels -- as the Senate’s transportation authorization bill does -- will put transit systems at risk of falling further into dangerous disrepair.
May 22, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: Houston, Transit Paradise?
Welcome to a super-long extra-bonus episode of Talking Headways! We only took on two topics this week, but we got so enthralled by both of them we just couldn't shut up.
May 22, 2014
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May 21, 2014
Wisconsin’s Outdated Transportation Priorities Are Alienating Young People
Over-spending on roads is a bad idea for any state DOT. But it’s an especially bad idea if that state needs to retain more young people who don't want to be shackled to cars.
May 21, 2014