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Oregon Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway Expansion

Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the U.S.

Kea Wilson

April 6, 2021

Oregon Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway Expansion

Streetsblog USA |Bicycling

Opinion: Safe School Transportation Has A Place in the Next Infrastructure Package

Will the Biden infrastructure plan address how our students get to school?

Kea Wilson

April 5, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Environment

Why The U.S. Needs a Bold 2030 Mode Shift Target

America needs to commit to transportation policies that will at least double the number of people who travel by foot, bike or transit by 2030, a leading advocacy group argues.

Kea Wilson

March 30, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Equity

Buttigieg Presents to House Transport. Committee

Buttigieg presented an ambitious vision for a more just and sustainable transportation system in the U.S. We’ll be eagerly following the funding, regulation and policy specifics of how this vision can be realized.

Sharon Hoyer

March 26, 2021

Equity

Fare-Free Buses Gain Momentum on Beacon Hill

Two bills currently in the Massachusetts Senate would eliminate fare collection on some or all of the state's bus routes.

Christian MilNeil

March 25, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Front page

Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark!

Talking to the new Urban Institute honcho about projects added to his transit inventory, the new infrastructure bill and a look back at our predictions from last year.

Jeff Wood

March 25, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Vision Zero

Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.

Kea Wilson

March 24, 2021

Bicycling

New ‘Controlling Criteria’ Will Require Sidewalks, Bike Lanes In State Road Projects

The newly-adopted controlling criteria for bike, pedestrian, and transit facilities lay out minimum standards to help ensure that all roadway users are considered from the beginning of a project's design process.

Christian MilNeil

March 22, 2021

Bicycling

Bike Light Legislation Renews Debate Over Policing’s Role In Traffic Safety

"There are concerns we have that this would be enforced through police interactions, and we know those to be inherently inequitable, and that they lead to more drastic incidents for people of color."

Christian MilNeil

March 19, 2021

Environment

Analysis: Bay State’s EV Rebate Program Overwhelmingly Benefits Wealthy Suburbanites

The Baker administration has spent $14 million to subsidize purchases of new Teslas, whose products are all categorized as “luxury” cars.

Christian MilNeil

February 18, 2021

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