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Here’s a First: Hartford’s Downtown Now Offers Free Roadside Assistance for...
Bicyclists in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, have a new option if they need repairs on the go — the area’s business improvement district has launched a first-of-its-kind roadside assistance program....
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In Sprawling Areas, Can the Bus Become Anything Other Than a Lifeline for the...
As one of the nation’s newest transit systems is celebrates its first anniversary, it highlights a tension faced by bus providers throughout auto-oriented parts of United States: can something that’s...
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Judge Issues Restraining Order to Keep Baltimore Mayor From Erasing Protected...
Barely six months after taking office, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has, in a matter of weeks, made a name for herself as the mayor who rips out protected bike lanes. The Pugh administration had been...
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Media Draw Attention to Deadly Suburban Speedways in North and South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, are two rapidly-growing Southern cities where people who can’t afford cars are often forced to cross dangerous, high-speed roadways to get...
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Parking Reform Has Big Implications for Sustainable Transit — and for...
While tangible, on-street changes like bike lanes, busways and plazas attract lots of attention, parking policy is arguably the unsung hero of urban transportation reform. Removing off-street parking...
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Virginia DOT Hopes People Will Enjoy Bicycling Next to a Noisy,...
When a bike path is added to a highway expansion project, it risks being an afterthought, resulting in a low-quality, high-stress route. Riders, inundated with noise and pollution from cars, end up not...
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Why Looking at Crash Stats Alone Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story About...
Some intersections are riskier to cross than others, but looking at the number of pedestrian injuries alone doesn’t tell the whole story. A new study from Minneapolis combines crash data with...
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Transportation Vision: Add a Million People While...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s transport strategy for the next 25 years lays out a vision for how his city, expected to add 1.5 million people by 2041 on top of its current 9 million residents, is planning...
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Downtown Austin’s Parking Crunch Can Be Solved Without Adding Tons of Parking
Cities and towns are constantly fretting about downtown parking. But what they often perceive as a “parking shortage” isn’t caused by a lack of parking — it’s the result of poor management of the...
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Oregon’s Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fees: Ready for Prime Time, But Waiting for...
Oregon has led the way in developing an alternative to the gas tax, with a program that levies a fee on vehicle miles traveled. While the Oregon Department of Transportation has spent years developing...
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What Do Drivers Really Think of Cyclists?
There’s ample research out there backing up the safety benefits of streets with protected bikeways and slow car speeds. But what about the critically important yet less tangible factor of individual...
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Highlighting the Inequity of Access to Good Bicycling Infrastructure in...
A new report from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy spotlights how disadvantaged neighborhoods in Milwaukee have less access to safe bicycle routes than other parts of the city. Neighborhoods with high...
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What’s Keeping People From Using Bike-Share? New Study Breaks It Down by Race...
Low-income communities and people of color view traffic risk, high prices, and the potential for crime and harassment are the biggest barriers to bicycling and using bike-share in their neighborhoods,...
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Honolulu City Council Wants Tighter Distraction Rules for Pedestrians Than...
Finally, someone in power is scapegoating pedestrians. On Friday, the Honolulu City Council passed a bill that would ban people from looking at cell phones and other electronic devices while crossing...
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Why Are Florida’s Streets So Deadly for Cycling?
Florida has a well-earned reputation as a dangerous place to bike. In 2014, 139 bicyclists lost their lives on Florida roads. They accounted for 20 percent of total cyclist fatalities in the U.S. that...
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Self-Driving Cars Should Accommodate People, Not the Other Way Around
A segment that aired yesterday on NPR’s Morning Edition comes off as posing a reasonable solution to the technical challenges of making self-driving cars safe around cyclists. But beneath the...
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NTSB: Speed Kills, and We’re Not Doing Enough to Stop It
More than 112,500 people lost their lives in speed-related crashes from 2005 to 2014, accounting for 31 percent of all traffic deaths in America over that period. In a draft report released earlier...
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Congress and Auto Industry Move to Ban Cities From Regulating Self-Driving Cars
Automakers and tech companies are pushing a bill through Congress that would handcuff local governments’ ability to regulate self-driving vehicles on city streets. Now city transportation officials are...
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This “War on Cars” Video Will Defend America From Transit-Riding Infidels
If you’ve ever wondered what the anti-Streetfilm would look like, wonder no more. Prager University (“[we are] not a university and we do not offer degrees”) is a non-profit founded by conservative...
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The “Outer Beltway” Is DC’s Zombie Highway Project That Won’t Stay Dead
Thanks to road boosters in the suburbs of Washington, DC, another highway bridge across the Potomac River — part of an old plan for a second beltway around the nation’s capital — is still officially a...
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