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In just a matter of weeks, the Highway Trust Fund — the source of the vast majority of federal funding for transportation — will be broke, in the red, kaput. And national leaders are still squabbling about how to fix that. One proposal was to patch the budget gap by ending Saturday postal delivery and […]

A number of studies have attempted to put a figure on the reduction in vehicles that results from car sharing services. Research from UC Berkeley’s Susan Shaheen goes a step further and quantifies how car sharing reduces driving. Even though most customers didn’t own their own cars before subscribing, Shaheen found that the overall impact […]

There’s excitement brewing over a couple of big changes coming to downtown Hartford, Connecticut, that could bring back some of the vitality that’s been lost over the years. The area is preparing for a new campus of the University of Connecticut as well as a minor-league baseball stadium. Joseph Cutrufo at Mobilizing the Region says some […]

If you live in a town that doesn’t consider pedestrian safety a very high priority, the signs are probably pretty obvious if you spend any time walking. James Sinclair feels like he’s being beat over the head with signs — sometimes actual, literal signs — in the Fresno suburb of Clovis, California. He writes on Stop […]

There are public officials like this in every city: so uninspiring and resigned to the status quo that they end up defending it. In Miami, that guy is Esteban Bovo, chair of the Miami-Dade County Finance Committee. At a recent hearing, shown in the video above, Bovo wasn’t outright antagonistic toward transit, just depressingly unwilling […]

Of all the places we encounter throughout the day, intersections have perhaps the most strictly prescribed rules. But the way people actually behave at intersections differs a great deal, depending on the mode of transportation, the place, the time of day — all sorts of factors. Adonia Lugo at Urban Adonia says she’s seen observance of […]