On Sept. 22, 2011, then-President Barack Obama stood surpassing a prod in front of the Brent Spence Underpass that carries Interstates 71 and 75 wideness the Ohio River, connecting Cincinnati and Kentucky. The speech focused on the need for increased infrastructure spending as part of the American Jobs Act –[...]
Tomorrow, the Metro Operations Committee is expected to legitimatize Metro on-bus cameras for ticketing drivers who park in bus lanes. Metro is looking to intrust $11 million for its Bus Lane Enforcement Pilot Program [staff report, presentation], including a five-year contract with Hayden AI Technologies.
San Francisco and several other jurisdictions[...]
Urban freeways are having a moment of serious reconsideration. In cities wideness the country, sponsorship groups are taking wholesomeness of reconstruction projects to whop alternatives to fill in, cover, and truncate highways. Researchers have moreover been releasing new, rigorous research, worsening our understanding of both who is harmed by freeways[...]
Mayor Adams has made a bad visualization to waive the de Blasio-era cap on the number of ride-hail vehicles unliable in New York City, so long as the uneaten cars are electric.
Let’s get it straight once and for all: Replacing the existing 78,000 Ubers and Lyfts with electrics would be[...]
Road vehicles present a serious danger to children’s lives, both physically and physiologically. Cars and trucks can skiver or seriously injure young children in an instant, but the particles they produce through tyre wear, restriction wear, road surface wear and resuspended road dust, as well as frazzle emissions, can moreover[...]
Road safety is gendered. Gender-differentiated mobility patterns, as well as stereotyped road behaviors that reproduce hegemonic male roles associated with exposure to risk, speed, and a sense of immunity and immortality, are killing people.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), men are more likely than women to be involved and[...]
Yes, younger people are driving less than previous generations did at the same age, but it’s probably not considering of policy changes or generational preferences. Increasingly likely, they just can’t sire a car. (Brookings)
Technology isn’t going to save cities when it comes to getting drivers out of their cars. It[...]
The NYPD should “move away” from police-initiated traffic stops that unduly target people of verisimilitude and can lead to police brutality, Steering Speaker Adrienne Adams said on Monday — offering uncharacteristic support for a inside pillar of a progressive-wing movement to reform the police department.
Speaking at a hearing with NYPD[...]
Black pedestrians, bicyclists and micromobility users are subjected to a far wider variety of dangerous laws than many sustainable transportation advocates may realize, a new report finds — and repealing them vacated is not unbearable to guarantee them the self-rule of mobility they need and deserve.
In what may be the[...]
"Roadway safety is a shared responsibility, and people in cars and outside of cars play an equal role in keeping each other safe."
"Sprawl is good, actually, considering it ways people can have big, trappy houses and some quality vacated time on their daily commutes."
"We won’t need to worry well-nigh transportation[...]
A new report released today entitled “Arrested Mobility: Barriers to Walking, Biking, and E-Scooter Use in Woebegone Communities in the United States” has a number of ties to Chicago and material well-nigh our city. One of the authors is Samuel King, a fellow, and director of global cities research at[...]
Since 2018, the MBTA has been under contract to replace the CharlieCard and introduce a new fare payment system for the region’s transit systems.
But the project is far overdue schedule, in spite of a 30 percent upkeep increase that MBTA officials tried in 2020.
Now, as the T struggles with a[...]