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Why Are Florida’s Streets So Deadly for Cycling?
Florida has a well-earned reputation as a dangerous place to bike. In 2014, 139 bicyclists lost their lives on Florida roads. They accounted for 20 percent of total cyclist fatalities in the U.S. that...
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Advice for Turning Dangerous State Roads Into Safe City Streets
It’s extra challenging to redesign a city street for safe walking and biking when that street is controlled by the state DOT. State highway departments tend to be concerned primarily with funneling...
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North Carolina DOT Needs a Culture Change to Translate Complete Streets...
Cities and states all over the country have adopted “complete streets” policies that say walking, biking, and transit — not just driving — need to be considered in street design and transportation...
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States are Losing Millions in Biking and Walking Funds
Hundreds of millions of federal dollars set aside to build desperately needed sidewalks, bike lanes or trails are instead being squandered by states through mismanagement, active disinterest or simply...
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New Mass. Pedestrian Safety Plan Includes Snow Removal
It’s one small step for Massachusetts, but one giant leap for pedestrians. The Bay State’s historically car-focused Department of Transportation will “encourage and facilitate safe pedestrian travel”...
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The Bible Belt Should Really Be Called ‘The Carnage Corset’
Sunshine State? More like Carnage Capital. Eight of the 10 most dangerous metro areas in the U.S. for pedestrians are in Florida, according to a new study by Smart Growth America. Of the remaining 12,...
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New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes–in...
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States Aren’t Even Trying to Reduce Traffic Deaths
Fifty more people dead in Michigan. Sixty one in Virginia. One hundred and six in Arizona. Those are the goals those state’s departments of transportation have set for themselves for road deaths under...
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Highway Boondoggles: Tar Heel State’s Road Expansion Disaster
In this year’s installment of its annual “Highway Boondoggles” report, Gideon Weissman of Frontier Group and Matthew Casale of U.S. PIRG Education Fund deliver a stark warning about the billions of...
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Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized Mess of a Highway Plan
In this year’s installment of its annual “Highway Boondoggles” report, Gideon Weissman of Frontier Group and Matthew Casale of U.S. PIRG Education Fund deliver a stark warning about the billions of...
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Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction
In this year’s installment of its annual “Highway Boondoggles” report, Gideon Weissman of Frontier Group and Matthew Casale of U.S. PIRG Education Fund deliver a stark warning about the billions of...
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Boondoggle: Keystone State’s 1-83 Expansion
In this year’s installment of its annual “Highway Boondoggles” report, Gideon Weissman of Frontier Group and Matthew Casale of U.S. PIRG Education Fund deliver a stark warning about the billions of...
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Boondoggle: Portland Takes a Step Backward
In this year’s installment of its annual “Highway Boondoggles” report, Gideon Weissman of Frontier Group and Matthew Casale of U.S. PIRG Education Fund deliver a stark warning about the billions of...
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Ride Single-File in These Upstate Towns Or Risk Arrest
Cyclists love riding the scenic roads in the Hudson River valley, but a Draconian municipal law could have cops ticketing riders and even throwing them in jail if they ride side by side. The Town Board...
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Maryland Is In A Huge Transit Hole
These are dire times for transit in the Mid-Atlantic region. Years of underfunding transit in the Old Line State has left the Maryland Transit Administration $2-billion short of the $5.7 billion needed...
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Houston’s Highway Mega-Plan: An Environmental Justice Disaster
Thousands of Houstonians are in danger of losing their homes as the state of Texas proceeds with a massive, $7 billion plan to widen almost every highway in North and downtown Houston. Mass...
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Feds Keep Cracking Down on Crosswalk Art
The federal government is continuing to crack down on crosswalk art and colorfully painted intersections without hard evidence that the street designs — which have become a popular way to brighten up...
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Critics: Maryland Gov. Shortchanges Transit Again
A governor with a history of shortchanging public transit projects was called to the carpet in Baltimore late last week when an envoy for Maryland’s Department of Transportation pitched a six-year...
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Report: Federal Highway Aid Is Rigged
Congress needs to value the natural environment, incentivize states to reduce traffic crashes and carbon emissions, and collect accurate data when it allocates nearly $50 billion in highway funding —...
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New Jersey Hopes To Reverse Sprawl
People may not love New Jersey Transit, but Gov. Phil Murphy is betting that they’ll want to live next to it. The Murphy administration is looking to improve the lives of New Jersey residents as well...
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