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The Brake: What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Transportation (And Why It Matters)
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A new zine from a top transit nonprofit explores why the needs of women need to be at the center of U.S. transit planning — and what it's like for gender-marginalized people who are working to change the status quo.
These Aren’t America’s Best Bus Stops … But We Still Love Them
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You still have a little time to submit your nomination for our America's Best Bus Stops contest — and we've got a little last-minute inspiration for you.
These States Won’t Adopt Even Bare Minimum Roadway Safety Laws
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More than 40 states have failed to adopted a series of common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn't bode well for those states' potential to more comprehensively reimagine their approaches to traffic safety.
Year In Review 2021: Now For the Good News
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This year was not a good one for big wins. But it may go down in history as a critical turning point for our national transportation future.
Year In Review 2021: The Bad News
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It's time for our year-in-review. Let's get the bad news out of the way first.
Dead Men Tell No Tales…in Support of Bike Lanes
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Our national treasure cartoonist has noticed that whenever a group of people in a neighborhood expresses support for a bike lane, there's always a revanchist force that claims to have "asked around" and discovered that no one, in fact, wants that bike lane. Here's his take.
It’s Our Annual December Donation Drive — and Streetsblog Needs Your Help
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Well, this is embarrassing. We're starting our annual donation drive...
Latest Attack Shows Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
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Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
And America’s Most Toxic Car Ad Is…
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... Chevrolet's 2015 ad for its Colorado pickup truck!
Dear Joe: The Electric Hummer is Not the Future
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An open letter to the American president that his constant cheerleading for electric mega-cars is not only a bad look, but bad policy.
Talking New York High Gas Price Blues
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Why are New York lawmakers — and other cold-state Democrats — calling for lower gas and fuel costs ... in an era when low gas and fuel costs have reduced the ability for life to sustain itself on Earth?
America’s Most Toxic Car Ad: The Finals!
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After thousands of votes and enough eerily empty downtowns to last a life time, Streetsblog readers have narrowed it down to just two of the most toxic car ads in our national history. Vote now for which deserves the title of the most toxic of all.