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Speed Cameras and Racial Justice
Researchers hope the results can increase support nationwide for swapping out cops for cameras, effective tools at keeping reckless drivers off the road and reducing fatal and injury-causing crashes.
April 25, 2022
Asphalt Art Decreases Crashes
Turns out, paint can be protection, at least when it's done right. Installing asphalt art on roads and intersection can cut crashes between motorists and other road users by a staggering 50 percent, a new study finds.
April 25, 2022
Climate Report Demands ‘Systemic’ Changes
Simply replacing gasoline with batteries won't be enough: cities must also dramatically curtail the use of automobiles and build more walkable neighborhoods to avoid "locking in" future emissions by building more car-dependent infrastructure.
April 25, 2022
Earth Day: 52 Years of Individual Environmental Action Hasn’t Fixed It
The issues Earth Day calls us to pay attention to have not changed much since 1970. And the fight to hold polluters accountable is a long, long way from being won.
April 22, 2022
Two Big Reasons States Keep Expanding Freeways
Highway widening advocates offer up a kind of manifest destiny storyline: population and traffic are ever-increasing, and unless we accommodate them we’ll be awash in cars, traffic and gridlock. The rising tide of cars is treated as a irresistible force of nature. But is it?
April 22, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Lighting the Way for Pedestrians
In their new book, "Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians," Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger talk about creating legible nighttime spaces, programming those spaces, and the future of lighting and transportation.
April 22, 2022
What’s In the US DOT ‘Equity Action Plan’
A new federal action plan to advance "equity" in the transportation realm includes concrete commitments to reform a transportation network that too often disenfranchises marginalized people — but it doesn't go far enough, some say.
April 21, 2022
Study: Car Ownership Doesn’t Always Cut Black Workers’ Commutes
It still takes Black workers 22 minutes longer to get to work every week than their White counterparts — it's probably not possible to speed up those commutes in urban areas with automotive strategies alone.
April 20, 2022
Bike League Ranks Massachusetts As ‘Most Bicycle-Friendly State’
League of American Bicyclists has ranked Massachusetts number 1 in the country in the organization’s 2022 Bicycle Friendly State Report Card. Massachusetts replaces Washington, which had occupied the top position on the scorecard since 2008, as the nation’s most bicycle-friendly state. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker took the opportunity to brag about the rankings in a […]
April 20, 2022
Why You Should Never Sit Next to a Breakaway Post
Let me be clear: this was no accident.
April 20, 2022