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As Congress considers President Biden’s $1.7 trillion infrastructure proposal, a broad array of Americans with competing viewpoints and interests has been offering their two cents about how to pay for necessary investments in our country’s transportation future.

A.B. 1401 must pass the Assembly this week, but there is still organized opposition to it.

Hey tactical urbanists: Want to know a quick way to gain street space for people?

The latest from Sacramento

Want great public spaces? Start with basic human dignity for all people.

According to the Chicago Police Department, on Wednesday, May 26, at about 1:20 a.m., Clark was bicycling west on Logan. At Western Avenue, the southbound driver of a silver Hyundai Sonata sedan struck him. The cyclist “sustained trauma throughout the body” and was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital. Clark was pronounced dead at the hospital at 2:04 a.m.

When Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were on the campaign trail last fall, transit wasn’t much of an issue in a state that’s historically been hostile to it outside of Atlanta’s urban core. But since Georgia’s two new senators took office — giving Democrats the majority — they’ve made it a top priority, testifying in hearings and touring their home state to build support for President Biden’s infrastructure plan.

This week, we’re joined by Sharon Roerty, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a director at Gehl, to talk about the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework

As California is figuring out how to put the brakes on its habit of expanding highways everywhere, the unsurprising pushback over long-planned "legacy" projects has begun.