Racism
STUDY: Police Stops Don’t Stop Car Crashes
An explosive new study found that higher rates of state patrol traffic stops — which increase the possibility of dangerous contact between people of color and law enforcement — does not lessen car-crash rates.
July 14, 2021
STUDY: New Bike Lanes Aren’t Associated With Displacement of BIPOC, Low-Income People
The installation of new protected infrastructure for bicyclists is not associated with the displacement of people of color or of low-income urban residents, a new study reveals.
June 21, 2021
REPORT: Here’s Where People of Color Can’t Access Opportunity Without A Car
Even the most transit-rich cities in America are significantly less accessible without a car for the low-income and people of color, a new analysis finds.
June 17, 2021
How (And Why!) to Repeal ‘Jaywalking’ Laws
A movement is growing to strike down racially biased and ineffective “jaywalking” laws across America — and the advocates behind these efforts say the path to doing it everywhere may be smoother than it has been in the past.
May 5, 2021
Do Traffic Fines Make Streets Safer — And At What Cost?
Does automated enforcement always make our streets safer? Or do the traffic fines they spit out simply send poor drivers into a spiral of poverty, lost mobility, and even incarceration, without necessarily saving the lives of many vulnerable road users?
April 29, 2021
ZOOM CALL: Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan
Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.
April 28, 2021
This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar
Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.
March 10, 2021
BOMBSHELL: Council Seeks to Take Crash Investigation from NYPD to Increase Road Safety
January 29, 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
‘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
