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Opinion: The Bus Driver Shortage is an Emergency

By Jarrett Walker | Dec 15, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 15, 2021 | No Comments

More On Assemblymember Cristina Garcia’s Bill To Curb Freeway Expansion (LB Post) LAT Editorial: Legalize Street Vendors Report: Reduced Vehicle Emissions Has Meant Fewer Deaths (LAT) Norwalk Celebrates Its First Electric Bus (@cityofnorwalkca Instagram) Manhattan Beach Restaurant Owners Against Taking Away Outdoor Dining (Daily Breeze) Streets for All Asks You To Complete A Survey On […]

Workers build bikes in the United Kingdom. Image: Hulton-Deutsch Collection, Corbis, via Nat Geo, CC

Report: To Sustain the Cycling Boom, U.S. Must Build Up American Bike Manufacturing

By Kea Wilson | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

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.

An unfiltered image from Salem, Ore. during a 2020 wildfire. Source: Bruhmoney77, CC

Oregon DOT’s Real Climate Plan: Keep on Polluting

By Joe Cortright | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

As COVID Surges, CA Resumes Indoor Mask Mandate (LAT, Daily News) …Judge Rules: Yes, Vax Mandates Apply To Police (LAT) New Metro Bus Schedules Take Effect This Sunday (The Source) Metro Transit Ridership Ticked Upward In November (The Source) Man Fatally Struck By B Line In Hollywood (LAT, MSN, ABC7) Carnage: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills One […]

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, center, takes a tour of Richmond’s Jackson Ward Neighborhood, accompanied by Mayor Levar Stoney (right) and Maritza Mercado Pechin, (left) a city planning official. Image courtesy Wyatt Gordon for the Virginia Mercury)

Could Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Help Heal the Scars Highways Created?

By Wyatt Gordon | Dec 13, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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