Car Culture

A Democratic governor's controversial decision to pick up a road-widening effort where his Republican predecessor left off is sparking a conversation about why U.S. leaders across party lines keep pushing for the same old harmful highway projects.

The post Why Democrats and Republicans Alike Keep Expanding Highways appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

An Ohio law would require state transportation officials to build highway interchanges every 4.5 miles — even if they have to tear down homes and businesses to do it.

The post New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

What can cities do to stem the megacar crisis while the feds drag their feet?

The post How Communities Can Fight Back Against Ever-Larger Cars and Trucks appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Texas will eliminate temporary license plates — the paper versions of real plates that nefarious dealers and outright crooks around the country are selling to drivers to avoid speed cameras, commit other vehicular crimes or simply to keep driving if they lack insurance or a driver's license.

The post Temp Tags Begone! After Streetsblog Investigation, Texas Eliminates Paper License Plates appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

"SUVs, pick-up trucks, and passenger cars should not be the benchmark by which we judge the size of other forms of transit, and the term ‘micromobility’ encourages us to believe that they are."

The post Opinion: Why We Should Stop Using the Word ‘Micromobility’ appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Instead of endless promises to fix America's "crumbling roads and bridges," filmmaker Andy Boenau argues we need to talk about our crumbling minds and bodies — and how our autocentric infrastructure approach contributes to them.

The post How Auto-Centric Infrastructure Is Making Us Sick appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would "gut" key elements of the nation's bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default and could make it easier for highway-building agencies to expedite road projects that harm vulnerable communities for generations, advocates warn.

An aggressive new federal safety rule would eventually require automakers to install on new cars technology that can detect pedestrians and stop crashes before they happen — but there remain several key flaws in the proposal, advocates and experts said.

If you can drive and can afford a car, you probably don’t understand what it’s like to rely, day in and out, on walking, rolling, transit, or asking or paying for rides. But this is every day for non-drivers.