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Tuesday’s Headlines Get Off Our Phones
Distracted driving is up 23 percent since 2020. Plus, Pete Buttigieg says every American should be outraged about the recent spike in traffic deaths.
May 2, 2023
Why It’s So Hard to Import Small Trucks That Are Less Lethal to Pedestrians
A rise in rural Americans buying miniature trucks from Japan that meet their needs better than U.S. megacars is renewing calls for Congress to make it easier to buy smaller, safer vehicles from overseas — at least while U.S. automakers refuse to produce them here.
May 1, 2023
Monday’s Headlines Cancel Car Culture
The New Republic talks to transportation writers Daniel Knowles and Henry Grabar about America's toxic relationship with cars.
May 1, 2023
Friday’s Headlines Are Fitter and Happier
That's what happens when you live in a walkable neighborhood, psychologists say.
April 28, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines Reap What We Sowed
Traffic deaths are up across the board, but disproportionately the victims are people of color because of urban renewal and decades of disinvestment.
April 27, 2023
Wednesday’s Headlines Are Inflated
Transit projects all over the country are feeling the effects of escalating construction costs.
April 26, 2023
Streetsblog Chicago Editor John Greenfield Seriously Injured in Bike Crash
Streetsblog Chicago editor, founder, and our colleague John Greenfield was seriously injured this weekend after a piece of construction material that had not been properly tied down fell off a pick-up truck and struck him while biking on a road with no protected cycling infrastructure.
April 25, 2023
Tuesday’s Headlines Will Never Take Your Freedom
What's really more freeing? Being able to walk wherever you need to go, or being able to hop in a car and sit in traffic?
April 25, 2023
Monday’s Headlines Want Safer Streets
Almost 43,000 Americans were killed by drivers last year, which Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calls a "national tragedy."
April 24, 2023
Friday’s Headlines Want Real Complete Streets
Memo to DOTs: Complete streets is a process and a way of thinking, not a highway with some paint slapped on it for bikes.
April 21, 2023
