When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby
One of the nation's biggest guns and ammo dealers also owns the bike brands Bell, Giro, and Copilot.
February 21, 2018
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
Montclair, California, is the latest American city to fall for the dangerous fiction that outlawing the act of walking while looking at a mobile device will make people safer.
February 20, 2018
America’s Stunted National Debate About Infrastructure
Supporting "infrastructure spending" in all its vagueness is not good enough. We need to talk about what we want to build.
February 20, 2018
Baltimore Invents an Excuse to Avoid Building Its Downtown Bike Network
They say it's about fire safety. But people are dying in the streets.
February 16, 2018
Seattle Cut Car Commuting Downtown While Adding 60,000 Jobs
Don't let anyone tell you a healthier economy is inextricably linked to more driving.
February 15, 2018
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
It's not a coincidence that bicycling remains dangerousĀ in our helmet-obsessed safety culture.
February 14, 2018
Suburban Segregationist Brooks Patterson Breaks Up Detroit’s Hard-Won Transit Coalition
Representing the region's primarily white northern suburbs, Patterson is blocking a transit measure that would improve job access for black Detroiters.
February 13, 2018
Baltimore’s Surprise Subway Shutdown: Larry Hogan Passes the Buck
While the Maryland governor prepares for a bonanza of toll road spending, he let the most important transit route in the state fall into dangerously poor condition.
February 13, 2018
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Another Con
The White House outline does nothing to reform a half-century of highway-centric federal policy that has left America choking on traffic.
February 12, 2018
Philadelphia’s Boulevard of Death
If we're going to reduce traffic deaths, we need to start with roads like Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.
February 12, 2018