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Aaron Short

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The Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans is the nation's top candidate for a highway teardown, says the Congress for New Urbanism. Photo: The Advocate via CNU
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Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways

By Aaron Short | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments
“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.”
AASHTO leaders want Congress to allocate the same 80-20 ratio for highways and transit with no way to measure whether the roads are any safer.
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State DOTs Want More Money, Fewer Regulations

By Aaron Short | Jan 10, 2020 | No Comments
AASHTO-ld you so! State DOT association wants the same funding for highway construction — and no provisions to make roads safer.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao unveiled the latest regulations for autonomous vehicle technology at Las Vegas CES on Wednesday. Image: Fortune Brainstorm Tech
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Trump Administration Keeps Hands Off Self-Driving Cars

By Aaron Short | Jan 9, 2020 | No Comments
At the annual Las Vegas tech geek fest on Wednesday, USDOT Secretary Elaine Chao refused to put a leash on driverless car technology.
Minneapolis-St. Paul is building six new bus rapid transit routes but they may not be finished until 2026 at the earliest.
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Bus Rapid Transit Should Be Built More Rapidly

By Aaron Short | Jan 8, 2020 | No Comments
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!"
The White House could exclude climate change from new infrastructure projects in a revision of a 50-year-old environmental rule this week. Image: J. Daniel Escareño
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Congress Vows to Fight Trump’s Environmental Rule Change

By Aaron Short | Jan 7, 2020 | No Comments
A White House council is expected on Wednesday to announce revisions to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act that would advise federal agencies to ignore the effects of climate change during reviews of new infrastructure projects.
Oslo had zero cycling and pedestrian fatalities in 2019 thanks to measures like restricting cars from its city center.
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Vision Zero! Norwegian Capital Completely Quashes Road Deaths

By Aaron Short | Jan 3, 2020 | No Comments
Secrets from Oslo, where the zero of Vision Zero is taken seriously.
Young people are forgoing car ownership and driving less, which is leading to a slowdown in driving nationally. Image: State Farm
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Americans Are Poised to Drive Less In 2020

By Aaron Short | Jan 3, 2020 | No Comments
Americans don't usually make New Year's resolutions to drive their cars less, but it may be happening anyway.
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Hello, 2020, What Do You Have in Store?

By Aaron Short | Jan 2, 2020 | No Comments
This year, America will vote for a new president. We also have a chance to define what kind of country we want to be, depending on how we address these 11 vital transportation-related issues.
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Streetsies 2019: Here are Your Transportation Heroes

By Aaron Short | Jan 2, 2020 | No Comments
And the Streetsie goes to...
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Streetsies 2019: And the Winners Are…

By Aaron Short | Jan 2, 2020 | No Comments
Here are our annual awards for the best (and worst) people, projects and ideas of the year.
Congress nixed an electric vehicle tax credit at the president's request, which will make Teslas more expensive next year. Image: Wolfram Burner
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Winners and Losers In $1.4T Fed Spending Bill

By Aaron Short | Dec 19, 2019 | No Comments
Congress has some stocking stuffers and a few lumps of coal for the transportation sector in the $1.4 trillion spending package the House of Representatives passed on Tuesday in one of the last votes of the year before impeachment.
Trump-friendly states that are doing little to reduce climate emissions which is depressing the country's goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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Red States Help U.S. Miss Climate Targets

By Aaron Short | Dec 17, 2019 | No Comments
Why can't our country solve its emissions problem? Because we are effectively two nations: A blue nation that is committed to climate change, and a Trump nation that is not.
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