Shared Motor-Scooters Coming to D.C.
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The District Department of Transportation is launching a four-month pilot program to invite shared motor-scooters to zip through the city, officials announced last week.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Traffic
Lessons of Los Angeles’s Transit Tax: Money Isn’t Everything
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Money isn’t everything. A new report is taking the measure of a half-cent sales-tax hike that three years ago sought to transform transit funding in Southern California — and finding that, while such a tax can be sold to the public, it is much harder to muster political support for long-term infrastructure spending. The tax […]
Boondoggle: Virginia’s Unlovable I-81 Expansion
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Officials have pointed to safety as a key reason for the need to expand the highway. Yet, in 2010, state officials raised speed limits to 70 mph along much of I-81, a move that likely made the road more dangerous.
Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction
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California's $8-billion, 63-mile “High Desert Freeway" north of downtown Los Angeles would lead to more driving and more pollution, along with sprawling desert development.
Highway Boondoggles: Madness in Michigan
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The Great Lakes State is undertaking to expand the capacity of Interstate 75 — a project that is both unnecessary and will exacerbate the region’s problems.
Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized Mess of a Highway Plan
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Deadly and sprawling Houston does not need this $7-billion widening and rebuilding highway project.