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Yonah Freemark

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Data: Other Countries Are Building Transit While the U.S. Falls Behind

By Yonah Freemark | Jan 24, 2023 | No Comments
"While the world is building out ever more accessible transit systems, the US appears to be falling behind."
An electric vehicle charger. File photo.
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What the Inflation Reduction Act Will — And Won’t — Do For Sustainable Transportation

By Yonah Freemark | Sep 23, 2022 | No Comments
The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by channeling funding through tax credits, loans, and grants — but it's not a silver bullet.
Photo: Martin Pettitt, CC
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What the US Can Learn from the European Approach to Controlling Vehicle Emissions

By Yonah Freemark and Wesley Jenkins | Jul 8, 2022 | No Comments
The US transportation sector isn’t adapting quickly enough to the climate crisis by reducing emissions. A better adaptation strategy will require not only shifting how people move by getting them out of cars and onto bikes and public transportation, but also replacing the vehicle fleet with more efficient automobiles that are less reliant on fossil fuels.
Of course, one parking spot isn't enough for your BIG truck. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
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The First Step to Ending Pedestrian Deaths? Tax Heavy Cars In Cities

By Yonah Freemark and Wesley Jenkins | Jul 7, 2022 | No Comments
Washington is the first city in the nation to propose a targeted charge by vehicle weight, but even that ambitious policy falls short of similar weight charges in other countries.
Photo: Marcel Moran
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Why French and US Road Deaths Went In Dramatically Different Directions

By Yonah Freemark and Wesley Jenkins | Jul 6, 2022 | No Comments
Here's how American states and cities can look to the French example for approaches to improve road safety. 
A section of concrete-protected bike lane on Milvia. Photos: Streetsblog/Rudick
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Why US Cities Are Investing in Cycling Infrastructure

By Olivia Fiol, Yipeng Su, and Yonah Freemark | Feb 11, 2022 | No Comments
Many US cities have committed to the Vision Zero goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries. One key approach for many cities is improving bike lanes and other facilities. But are cities actually changing the way they invest in cycling infrastructure?
Terrible bus stops like this one make it hard to convince people to use transit.
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Analysis: Fed Support for Transit Would Increase Equity

By Yonah Freemark | Aug 27, 2021 | No Comments
Public transportation is an affordable mobility option for residents of communities nationwide, but it’s too frequently underfunded. This results in low-quality service and low ridership. It also forces people with low incomes to buy cars and encourages increased carbon emissions.
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Too Little, Too Late? A Decade of Transit Investment in the U.S.

By Yonah Freemark | Jan 8, 2020 | No Comments
Cities across the U.S. added more than 1,200 miles of expanded transit service between 2010 and 2019. But all that construction isn’t keeping up with the need.
What Indianapolis is doing deserves attention, especially from other spread-out American cities looking to spend their transit dollars as efficiently as possible. The big change is a complete reshaping of bus service, which will be like setting up a brand new transit network.
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The Bus Network Redesign in Indianapolis Will Be Like Launching a Brand New Transit System

By Yonah Freemark | Jul 11, 2017 | No Comments
What Indianapolis is doing deserves attention, especially from other spread-out American cities looking to spend their transit dollars as efficiently as possible. The big change is a complete reshaping of bus service, which will be like setting up a brand new transit network.
Indianapolis has a big downtown, but the bus network is not set up to serve it well, and compact development is scarce in the rest of the city. Photo: Evan Walsh/Wikimedia Commons
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Can Transit Work Well in a Sprawling City Like Indianapolis?

By Yonah Freemark | Jun 22, 2017 | No Comments
Transit service in Indianapolis is scarce and very few people use the existing system. A key reason for these lackluster outcomes is the city's sprawling pattern of development.
Chicago's Loop Link. Photo: Metropolitan Planning Council
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Introducing a New Streetsblog Series: Getting Transit Right

By Yonah Freemark | Feb 16, 2017 | No Comments
With more American cities raising impressive sums to expand transit, the question of how to invest effectively is increasingly essential. So far, few places have hit on a policy combination that makes transit more useful to more people. To help cities "get transit right," Streetsblog is launching a new series about which transit strategies are working and which are not.
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