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We are often told that America’s car culture is integral to its freedom. But let’s parse that one out a little bit. Three factors— road policing, car dependence, and street design — would together seem to conspire otherwise.

This week, we sit down with Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon’s Third District at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami. We chat about the one-year anniversary of the infrastructure bill, where we’re at with Vision Zero, the coming Farm Bill, and the important connections between housing, transportation, and health.

Research suggests that you are 568 times less likely to die in a terror attack than a car crash. So why do cities devote so much less to making their cities walkable than they do to preventing politically-motivated violence? 

A Republican majority in the House won't necessarily be a death knell for sustainable transportation priorities, the prominent bike-loving Congressman says.

The man, the advocate, the legend, Dave Campbell talks with Streetsblog about 26 years of fighting for safe streets in Oakland, Berkeley, and the rest of the East Bay

Check out Eighth Avenue ... with a comedian! Charlie Todd from the city-based troupe Improv Everywhere rode around to show off the Department of Transportation's transformational redesign of Eighth and Ninth avenues.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been in effect for a full year, but federal transportation leaders still haven't implemented some of its most crucial safety provisions — and advocates and electeds say its time they step up to stem the record-setting tide of traffic deaths on U.S. roads

In 2012, Jeff Speck’s Walkable City sparked a conversation about why pedestrianized places matter and became one of the best-selling books about the built environment in recent memory. Ten years later, though, so much about the world has changed — even as human-centered communities have become more important than ever.

Governor Newsom claims that the oil industry has been increasing prices unfairly and blaming the surge in prices on inflation and environmental regulations even as it brought in record profits