Cars
Talking Headways Podcast: Asphalt Art!
How communities can use paint as an effective and relatively low-cost strategy to activate their streets.
August 11, 2022
Bad Road Design Is Stoking the U.S. Pedestrian Death Crisis: Report
States that built streets for speed over safety experienced big fatality jumps even as driving diminished during the pandemic.
July 12, 2022
Study: SUVs Are Indeed Death Machines for Children and Black Road Users
Maybe the 354th story with this headline will finally change some minds — or some federal regulations.
July 7, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: What Cities Gain by Removing Parking
Oregon plans to reduce parking regulations in cities. What can we learn about the effect of parking lots on urban heat islands?
June 23, 2022
Vehicle-Into-Building Crashes 40% Higher Than Previously Thought
U.S. drivers ram their cars into buildings about 100 times every single day, according to revised new estimates – and while that's 40 more daily collisions than previously thought, some experts suspect it may still be an undercount.
June 21, 2022
OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles
Join these campaigns and send a message to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
June 2, 2022
D.C. SUV Owners Will Finally Pay Much More to Drive Such Behemoths
The era of big government vehicle is over.
May 27, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: A Next-Generation Transportion Policy
What's next? Harriet Tregoning, director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, talk about their report, "Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy."
May 5, 2022
THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds
Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes, proving again that it's death, not redemption, that's beneath a dirty hood.
May 4, 2022
Road Deaths Rise — Again! — As Post-Quarantine Period Proves Particularly Perilous to Pedestrians
The decade-long pedestrian death crisis has worsened, with a double-digit percentage increase in deaths caused by U.S. drivers — and experts are blaming it on speeding, distracted driving, larger vehicles and roads that prioritize car drivers over everyone else.
April 7, 2022
