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In communities across America, people are getting angry about traffic violence. But what does it take to turn that anger to a full-blown movement, with neighbors fighting alongside one another to change the status quo? 

A final update on the 2021-22 California Legislative Session: Final outcome on bills on bicycle and pedestrian safety, public transit, and climate including a recap of some of the ones that never got to the governor.

DC Council took a step toward putting $100 per month on District residents’ SmarTrip cards Monday as the Committee on Transportation and the Environment voted unanimously in favor of the Metro for DC Amendment Act of 2021.

It's a lesson for any community facing opposition from residents who claim bike lanes hurt business.

Assemblymember Laura Friedman's A.B. 2438 would have required California's transportation funding programs to incorporate strategies from the state's Climate Action Plan for Transportation Investment.

As roundabouts decrease traffic deaths for drivers, some designs of the controversial traffic treatment may actually increase non-deadly collisions for people on bikes. while scaring others off riding entirely, a series of studies suggests — and its raising thorny questions about who might get hurt along the road to Vision Zero.

No permanent e-bike incentive program, either. But cities and counties will be required to incorporate Safe Systems Approaches - bike and pedestrian safety - into their traffic circulation plans on a somewhat accelerated schedule.

Careful wording helped pass a ballot measure with a tax surcharge for transit.

The automatic emergency braking systems that will soon come standard on nearly all new cars don't reliably prevent crashes at the high speeds at which the overwhelming majority of roadway deaths occur, a new study finds.