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How Deadly Are Your Streets? New Data Tool Shows the Hard Truth
A new federal tool helps Americans see at a glance exactly how deadly traffic violence is in their community — and how their neighbors stack up.
February 8, 2023
Gillibrand Proposal Would Help Protect Transit From Climate Apocalypse
Rising waters need rising funds.
November 3, 2022
Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House
Well, we're movin' on up!
September 20, 2022
US DOT Seeks to Double the Nation’s Electric Bus Fleet (Which is Currently Tiny and Will Still Be)
Some of the money will go to supercharge the construction of green transit facilities, but federal officials emphasized that the vast majority will go towards the purchase of clean vehicles themselves.
August 17, 2022
Congestion Pricing Matchmaker: Which Tolling Scenario Is Right For You?
There are seven toll scenarios in the environmental assessment for congestion pricing. Let our matchmaker weed out Toll Wrong.
August 10, 2022
Blogging and Slogging: We Grilled Sec. Pete in the Jersey Swamps about Congestion Pricing
At long last, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has broken his legendary silence on congestion pricing — and said, more or less, "Don't blame the feds!"
August 2, 2022
What The Proposed GHG Rule Will (And Won’t) Do for the Climate
Federal regulators want local governments to track transportation sector emissions — but they can't do much to force communities to reduce those emissions, never mind doing so in ways that would address the other damages of car dependency, experts say.
July 21, 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 13, 2022
Wait, Wut? The US, Where Road Violence is a National Crisis, Wants to Advise Other Countries?!
Don't do as I say — and definitely don't do as I do!
July 6, 2022
HOLIDAY READ: What Advocates Need to Know About the ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program
A disappointingly small federal fund to repair the devastation inflicted by highway builders on predominantly Black, brown, and poor communities is now accepting applications. But more needs to be done.
July 4, 2022
