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Vehicle Safety Standards Don’t Protect Pedestrians
Federal regulators have failed to consider safety of pedestrians in their vehicle safety standards for far too long— and now the Government Accountability Office is calling them out.
April 28, 2020
Apple’s Misread of Walking Data Shows That We Really Don’t Know Much about Pedestrians
The data we've got aren't painting the full picture — and we need more of it to help shape good policy.
April 28, 2020
‘DEAR POLLY’: Commissioner’s Council Appearance Prompts Latest Parody by Streetsblog’s In-House Satire Crew
"The greatest mind in DOT, can't be sidelined, or playing D," our singers lament.
April 27, 2020
Contest Needs You to Create Better Bike Lane Barriers
We need something better than either bulky, expensive, and profoundly ugly concrete bollards, or shrimpy, plastic poles that drivers can plow straight over.
April 23, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: How Oakland Got it So Right
This week, we talk to a key official in Oakland, who explains how the city is creating the nation's biggest open-streets network practically overnight. Are you listening, Mayor de Blasio?
April 23, 2020
CAR ‘SIT-INS’? Drivers Are Drowning Out the Voices of the Most-Vulnerable During COVID-19
The worst thing about the new wave of car "sit-ins" at state capitol buildings is not the cars (though they suck!). It's the feeling that the voices and needs of non-drivers will be ignored because they can't show up during a pandemic.
April 17, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Here’s How Cars Cost Us All (Even Non-Drivers!)
It's another standout episode featuring Iowa Law Professor Greg Shill who describes all of the ways that driving is costing and killing out society — and how non-drivers can't even opt out!
April 16, 2020
Let’s Not Overthink This: Opening Streets is Easy, Says Urban Planner Mike Lydon
An urban planner looks at open space and reviews the good, the bad and the ugly among our cities (looking at you, Mayor de Blasio!).
April 16, 2020
We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19
Our system of financing road repairs is broken.
April 13, 2020
BREAKING: Oakland’s 74 Miles of Open Streets Puts de Blasio to Shame
Days after our mayor shut down his own 1.5-mile car-free street pilot, west coast Mayor Libby Schaaf shows how it's done.
April 10, 2020
