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Talking Headways Podcast: Narrow the Lanes!
At 30 to 35 miles per hour, research shows that 12- and 11-feet-wide lanes have significantly higher number of crashes than 10- or nine-feet-wide lanes.
January 4, 2024
This Albanian City Should Inspire America to Go Big on ‘School Streets’
Streets near schools should be for kids — not cars. And this Albanian city is set to reimagine roads in front of all its learning centers.
January 3, 2024
Why Red States Are Suing to Hide Their Transportation Emissions
"They’re saying they don’t have the capacity to measure greenhouse gas emissions, and in the same [document], they’re saying they do; I’d like to know which it is."
January 3, 2024
What’s on Caltrans’s $16B Holiday SHOPP-ing List?
The $15.7 billion State Highway Operations and Protection Program is one of the state’s biggest infrastructure packages. But what’s really in the 599 projects?
The post What’s on Caltrans’s $16B Holiday SHOPP-ing List? appeared first on Streetsblog California.
Carter Rubin
December 21, 2023
Anatomy of a Complete Streets Policy
How San Diego Advocates Pushed for, and Won, a Better Approach to Road Design
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December 20, 2023
Hundreds of Vision Zero Projects Get Mega Biden Bucks
How will $890 million be spent on 620 projects nationwide? Click to find out.
December 14, 2023
Freeway Math: How Governments Decide a Harmful Highway Is ‘Worth It’
A massive interstate highway project promises do deliver billions of dollars in public "benefits." But a local advocacy group says that it's all based on bad math.
December 14, 2023
S.F. Standard Fans Anti-Bike Hate
Advocates were outraged by Friday's feature story that repeats the tired stereotype of the scofflaw, Spandex-clad cyclist
December 11, 2023
The Other Reason American Pedestrian Deaths are Rising After Dark
A recent New York Times article broke down many of the factors that are driving pedestrian death tolls to stratospheric highs after dark. But they missed one big one.
December 11, 2023
Latest White House Grants Show Promise for a Real Interstate Rail System
It's more than just high speed rail.
December 10, 2023
