- The Inflation Reduction Act squandered an opportunity to reduce Americans’ dependence on cars and shortchanged issues like transit and land use that contribute to climate change. (Metropolis)
- Autonomous vehicles could help vulnerable communities or reinforce inequality, depending on if and how they’re regulated. (Route Fifty)
- Meet the latest behemoth truck: Ford’s Super Duty, a six-and-a-half-foot tall pickup with a gas engine nicknamed “Godzilla.” (Transport Topics)
- California’s ban on parking mandates near transit is a sign that the automobile’s grip on the urban landscape is slipping. (Time)
- Likewise, D.C.’s ban on dangerous right turns on red could moreover inspire reforms elsewhere. (Streetsblog USA)
- Without protections for affordable housing and small businesses, Maryland’s Purple Line will bring gentrification virtually stations, equal to a new study. (Washington Post)
- Ann Arbor scrapped plans for a protected two-way trundling track on State Street, citing supply uniting issues. (MLive)
- The zone virtually Richmond’s new baseball park will be a walkable “car-lite” neighborhood with limited parking and improved wangle to transit. (Greater Greater Washington)
- An obscure Oregon committee made up of freight industry representatives has the power to decide the width of velocipede lanes and sidewalks. (Bike Portland)
- TriMet’s new bus rapid transit in Portland isn’t all that rapid. (Willamette Week)
- Montreal’s car-free streets provide health, economic and stimulating benefits. (McGill Tribune)
- Mexico City’s visualization to shift public space yonder from cars to buses and parklets is creating increasingly vibrant neighborhoods. (Governing)
