What Trump’s Tariff Chaos Could Mean For Transportation
Hint: expensive cars, expensive trains, expensive bikes, expensive everything.
Op-Ed: SUV, Cybertruck, Delivery Van Owners Should Pay their Fair Share
It's time for owners of heavy vehicles to pay for the extra costs they cause for cities.
Feds Insist They’ll Find A Way To Enforce Fake 4/20 Congestion Pricing Deadline
"The U.S. DOT maintains the position that New York City should stop charging tolls by April 20," a federal lawyer said about the tolls that are not being charged by New York City.
This week's headlines
Thursday Is Pickup Day for Headlines
"Direct vision" trucks would save lives of solid waste workers and those in other industries.
Wednesday’s Headlines Are a Good Deal
Planetizen makes the case that transit subsidies are well worth the expense because they benefit everyone — even drivers.
Tuesday’s Headlines Are Duffy-nitely Worth Reading
Dad jokes aside, the transportation secretary pulled a political stunt by riding the New York City subway with embattled Mayor Eric Adams.
Monday’s Headlines Love Thy Neighbor
It's harder to do, though, when a freeway separates people. Plus, EVs won't save us from climate change.
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Kids Enjoy San Francisco’s Beach Safe from Pollution and Speeding Traffic
San Francisco's trading high-speed traffic for safe space for kids to ride bikes — and other cities can, too.
California Rallies Against Trump Administration with Dozens of ‘Hands Off’ Rallies
Thousands of Californians marched against the Trump administration's destructive policies this weekend. Here are just a few.
Is ‘Walk Score’ Really Just a ‘White Score’?
A provocative new paper argues that one of America's most popular real estate tools is driving investment to predominantly white urban neighborhoods, without meaningfully expanding walkability for anyone else.
Friday Video: Get Thee To Ghent
The Belgian city banned cars from its inner core in 2017 — and it's working!
Friday’s Headlines Hit the Brakes
New administrations often reverse policies, but rarely do they go after money already allocated like the Trump administration is doing, Grist reports.
US DOT Doesn’t Want to Fund Road Diets Anymore
One of America's largest road safety programs will look "unfavorably" on applications that reduce lane capacity for vehicles – even in urban areas where there's nowhere else to build bike lanes, sidewalk extension, and other sorely-needed infrastructure.
Talking Headways Podcast: Planning Connections in Panther City
Fort Worth's Kelly Porter on the city's city’s history, incredible growth and Texas high-speed rail.
Thursday’s Headlines Ask for Privacy
Under the Elon Musk administration, private investment might be the only way forward for intercity rail, but it's not as if such ventures have it easy.
Duffy Delivers Mixed Messages on ‘Woke’ Transportation Funding Delays
The U.S. DOT secretary says he's drowning under a backlog of grants from the Biden administration — but somehow has time to scrutinize them all for a "woke" agenda.
