Kea Wilson
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How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
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It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
Hit and Run Crashes Against Cyclists Surge in 2020
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Drivers aren't just killing cyclists on quarantine-emptied roads — they're also leaving them to die there.
Buttigieg Must Fix Traffic Control Standards
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The feds will finally revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets standards for signs, markings and signals that help road users — and, eventually, autonomous vehicles — safely move through our communities.
Bezos's Bloody, Polluting Legacy on U.S. Roads
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Jeff Bezos stepped down from the top spot at Amazon yesterday, but his toxic legacy on America's roadways isn't going anywhere.
Opinion: Buttigieg's Midwest Roots Will Help Him at USDOT
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Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.
Hold Your Applause For Car Makers' EV Promises
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General Motors aims to manufacture only electric vehicles by 2035 — but advocates are skeptical that the move will have much of a climate impact without a slate of accompanying policy changes.
Bill Would Finally Give Bikeshare Transit Dollars
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Bike- and scooter-share systems across the country may soon be eligible for the federal transit dollars they need to remain a stable and thriving element of our transportation landscape, if advocates can finally succeed in getting a hard-fought bill through Congress.
Why America Can’t Rein in Teen Speeding
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Teenage driver crash rates are four times higher than drivers over 20. But some advocates think addressing the problem will take far more than the enforcement and education. Let's dig in.
Biden Decries Racial Damage of Highways
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President Biden won points among some antiracist transportation advocates for calling out federal highway projects for destroying Black communities — and then lost points by failing to call for the USDOT itself to make reparations to the people it has harmed.
Can Ford Help Design a Better Intersection?
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A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network — and how to fix them — with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.
The History of AVs — And the Future
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Alex Davies new book, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car," offers a glimpse into an industry that will rapidly upend our transportation landscape — and some worry will kill even more vulnerable road users.
Study: App Taxis Can More than Double VMTs
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The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.