Recent Streetsblog USA posts about U.S. DOT

Buttigieg Must Fix Traffic Control Standards

By Kea Wilson | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

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.

The concrete supports for Charleston's Interstate 77, a downtown highway, which were built on land that was formerly home to more than 240 predominantly Black families. Image: Harry Schaefer via Wikimedia Commons

Biden Decries Racial Damage of Highways

By Kea Wilson | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Pete Buttigieg promoted the right things at his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Pool photo

Highlights from Buttigieg's Confirmation Hearing

By Kea Wilson | Jan 21, 2021 | No Comments

The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.

Will Mayor Pete — er, soon-to-be-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — help pedestrians like this guy?

The US DOT Needs an Active Transportation Czar

By Kea Wilson | Jan 21, 2021 | No Comments

Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.

Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal

By Kea Wilson | Jan 11, 2021 | No Comments

Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.

The Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans is the nation's top candidate for a highway teardown, says the Congress for New Urbanism. Photo: The Advocate via CNU

Nominee Buttigieg Vows To Dismantle ‘Racist’ Freeways

By Aaron Short | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments

“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”

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