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The Chinese mega-city provides an example of great urban mobility, albeit with a side of authoritarianism.

America has a new transportation secretary – but a recent executive order appears to direct him not to perform some of the most important duties of his job.

As you may have noticed, one of my obsessions is how car culture has so deeply saturated American popular culture that most people don't even notice they're drowning in it. (I suppose that's what "culture" means — the unquestioning acceptance of stuff because "it's always been that way.") After all, no American alive can recall the days when our cities were not choked by cars, so it's completely natural to not think about how we could all be living different, better, car-free lives.

"The party left me," Eric Adams told Tucker Carlson about the Democrats. Plus other news.

There were a few references to some cherished livable streets issues in the 47th president's inaugural speech.

We are taking today off to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and watch a congestion pricing foe become president.

The former federal transit official, who had a second career as one of the most prolific writers of letters to the editors of scores of area newspapers, died on Thursday.

Daylighting every intersection would make it easier to accomplish the Department of Transportation's policy goals. It's a wonder the agency won't support it.

The mayor is going down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Trump, eh? Plus other news.