Talking Headways Podcast: Walking with Pedestrian Dignity
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What's it like to walk across America? It can be beautiful — but also assaultive.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Mobility Justice
Op-Ed: Why Decarceration Must Be A Part of Transportation Reform
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Transit agencies can move from a policing model that seeks to detain, arrest, and imprison people to a system that carefully considers accessibility, affordability, mental health, public health, reentry, safety, and healing. Here's how.
Study: Black Cyclists Die 4.5x More Often Than White Cyclists
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Black cyclists are more than four times more likely to die while riding a bike than White ones, a new study finds — and the stats aren't much better for other modes or other racially marginalized groups.
How ‘Community Mobility Rituals’ Can Transform Neighborhoods
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On this episode, host Kea Wilson sits down with Olatunji Oboi Reed of Equiticity to talk about "community mobility rituals," or regular, free, hyper-local events that dismantle barriers to sustainable transportation and build the social infrastructure that neighborhoods need.
Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects
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"Treme and the 7th Ward, like many neighborhoods across the country, are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it."
Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Abortion Access
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Our auto-centric transportation system already poses a barrier to abortion care — and the likely rollback of the constitutionally protected procedure could make that hurdle virtually insurmountable for countless U.S. residents, advocates say.