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Applications Now Open for Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training
Bring knowledge about identifying safety issues and strategies to fix them to your community
January 25, 2022
Op-Ed: Why We Are Relaunching the ‘Future of Transportation’ Caucus
We are relaunching the Future of Transportation Caucus because our work to build more equitable, accessible, and sustainable transportation systems is far from finished and we cannot miss this opportunity to deliver for our communities.
January 24, 2022
GOP Govs to Biden: Don’t Force Your Progressive Politics on our Highway Projects
Republican governors banded together to thwart the federal government's push to use the new $1.2-trillion infrastructure package to promote progress on climate change, jobs and racial justice.
January 24, 2022
High Speed Rail Authority Approves Docs for Burbank-to-Los Angeles Segment
Milestone clears way to move forward with planning and design of this segment
January 21, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Civil Rights on the Road
This week we’re joined by Anna Zivarts from Disability Rights Washington and Paulo Nunes-Ueno from Front and Centered. They join us to talk about the Disability Mobility Initiative and the Mobility Bill of Rights. We also chat about why mobility experiments might make travel harder for disabled travelers and why road safety is a core part of civil rights.
January 21, 2022
Viral Video of W. Va. Reporter Struck by Pick-Up Driver on Live TV Should be a Watershed Moment
A horrifying car crash that aired during a live TV news broadcast in West Virginia is sparking a conversation about roadway and workplace safety — and the many ways that U.S. media normalizes traffic violence, even as it happens in real time.
January 21, 2022
Can Passengers Help End Dangerous Driving?
A new safety campaign will aim to empower passengers to take action when the drivers of the car they're riding in are drunk, drugged or distracted behind the wheel. But is that the best method?
January 20, 2022
Wait, What? Does NYC Have the ‘Best’ Transit System in the World?
An otherwise unrelated press conference veers into shaky territory for the new mayor.
January 20, 2022
These States Won’t Adopt Bare Minimum Roadway Safety
More than 40 states have failed to adopt common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn’t bode well for those states’ potential to more comprehensively reimagine their approaches to traffic safety.
January 19, 2022
Newsom’s Bike/Ped Budget Still Lackluster
Cutting through the spin: Newsom's latest proposals for bike and pedestrian project funding seems familiar
January 19, 2022