Aaron Short
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Feds Finally Using Highway Money to Tear Down Highways
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“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.
D.C. SUV Owners Will Finally Pay Much More to Drive Such Behemoths
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The era of big government vehicle is over.
Awful Highway Expansions in Denver and Portland are Halted
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State transportation agencies halted proposals to widen freeways in Denver and Portland amid rising costs, lawsuits, and stark questions about the projects’ destructive effects on the environment.
Report: Bigger Bike Budgets Boost the Boom
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The Biden administration should pour billions of dollars into a variety of bike projects because the investment will generate thousands of jobs while also obviously greening the way Americans get around, advocates said this week, citing a new report on the economic benefits of cycling investments.
Not So FAST: Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals
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A Senate proposal to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into new freeways is so flawed that it will wipe out the Biden administration’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030 while feeding Americans’ dependence on cars, advocates and even some lawmakers say.
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety programs, making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
ZOOM CALL: Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan
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Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.
Q&A: Eric Jacobsen on How Cars Make us Lonelier
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The author of "Three Pieces of Glass" shows how the phone, the TV and the car windshield make us so damn unhappy.
Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways
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“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”
State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations
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AASHTO-ld you so! State DOT association wants the same funding for highway construction — and no provisions to make roads safer.
Trump Administration Keeps Hands Off Self-Driving Cars
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At the annual Las Vegas tech geek fest on Wednesday, USDOT Secretary Elaine Chao refused to put a leash on driverless car technology.
Bus Rapid Transit Should Be Built More Rapidly
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Why does it take years to install a dedicated bus lane? It only takes a week to put down red paint and tell drivers, "Begone!"