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Guest Column: Worcester Kills Children
Planners, engineers, and politicians designed a system of roads that, for the sake of cars, made pedestrian deaths permissible.
July 10, 2024
Guest Column: An Advocate’s Guide to MPOs, Some of Our Most Critical Transportation Agencies
This year, Metropolitan Planning Organizations — or MPOs — have taken center stage in transportation advocacy across America. Michiganders got their MPO to cancel a highway expansion plan, St. Louis and Denver MPOs have approved light rail expansions, and the San Francisco Bay Area’s MPO pushed for significantly more funding and oversight to the region’s 27 transit agencies.
June 25, 2024
Guest Column: Massachusetts Should Embrace Decongestion Pricing
For nearly 100 years, Massachusetts has funded a substantial share of its transportation program by taxing gasoline and diesel fuel by the gallon.
March 21, 2024
Guest Column: Student Transit Advocates Make Riding the T a Varsity Sport
Most people ride the train or bus around Boston for work, shopping, or leisure. The Transit Advocacy Club at Boston University Academy – a high school on the campus of Boston University – rides it as a competition to test the limits of the transportation system, and, most importantly, to teach our community the value of public transit.
December 12, 2023
Open Thread: What Were the Biggest Transportation Stories of 2023?
As the end of 2023 approaches, we typically run a roundup of the year's biggest stories.
December 4, 2023
Guest Column: License Suspensions Are Devastating — And They Aren’t Making Our Roads Safer
"The drivers most at risk of losing their license for debt are the ones least able to pay, not the ones most likely to drive dangerously."
The post Op-Ed: License Suspensions Are Devastating — And They Aren’t Making Our Roads Safer appeared first on Streetsblog USA.
August 3, 2023
Guest Column: Why Boston’s New Traffic Signal Policy is a Big Deal
Signalized intersections in your neighborhood may be getting safer.
June 15, 2023
Guest Column: To Halt Wasteful Highways, America Needs a ‘Road Review’
In February, the government of Wales announced that it was scrapping all major road-building projects. The move came after a year-long “roads review” in which a government-appointed panel systematically reviewed the nation’s road-building program in light of its climate and environmental goals.
May 24, 2023
Guest Column: Europe’s Bike and Transit Systems Are a Marvel, But Only For Some
European cities have built exceptional infrastructure for the dominant culture, and that is much of what American tourists experience on their visits.
August 10, 2022
Guest Column: What if We Held Transit and Traffic to the Same Safety Standards?
Editor's note: this piece originally appeared in Greater Greater Washington and is being reprinted here with permission.
July 6, 2022
