Thursday’s Headlines Want It to Make Sense
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The infrastructure bill mitigates the effects of climate change but does little to slow it down. Plus, Make the American Bike Industry Great Again and more.
Survey Says: E-Scooters Are Great for Riders’ Mental Health
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E-scooters users say they feel an increased sense of emotional well-being after a ride, adding to a mountain of evidence that sustainable transportation may be an overlooked tool in fighting America's mental health crisis.
Opinion: The Bus Driver Shortage is an Emergency
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Many US transit agencies are looking at devastating service cuts due to a shortage of bus drivers. And there's something simple but powerful that sustainable transportation advocates can do about it.
Wednesday’s Headlines Are Fare Free (For Now)
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The VP is for EVs, everyone's dunking on Elon, Michelle Wu gets a reality check, lots of streetcar strife and more headlines.
How Parking Minimums Lead to Maximum Rents
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It’s time to build on the success of the transit-oriented development ordinance and eliminate parking minimums for housing city-wide.
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.
Oregon DOT’s Real Climate Plan: Keep on Polluting
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The Oregon DOT’s “Climate Action Plan” claims the agency wants to decrease greenhouse gases, but its revenue projections show it is planning for gasoline consumption not to decline at all – meaning that carbon emissions don’t decline, either.
Tuesday’s Headlines Are the Headlines of the Year
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It's not SNL sketch: Elon Musk is really TIME's Person of the Year. Plus, transit equity, too-cheap parking and more headlines.
Report: To Sustain the Cycling Boom, U.S. Must Build Up American Bike Manufacturing
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And as the bike shortages of the Covid-19 pandemic recently revealed, the absence of a robust domestic bike industry can itself become a barrier to getting Americans riding.
Could Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Help Heal the Scars Highways Created?
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From the interstate highway system to public housing, some of America’s most discriminatory and damaging policies have been implemented under the auspices of the need for better infrastructure. A recent visit from Sec. Buttigieg highlighted what the USDOT hopes to do to reverse the harm.
Monday’s Headlines Want to Warm Up
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But not in a climate change kind of way, and federal incentives for state DOTs, as well as building more walkable cities, could prevent that.
Study: Shifting to EVs Won’t Save Our Planet without Creating ‘Compact’ Cities
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“When we design our cities, we’ve been putting moving cars ahead of moving people,” said the head of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. “It doesn’t have to be that way.”