Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture
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Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don't have to.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Streetsblog USA
Would You Trade Your Parking Benefit for Cash?
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Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Greater Greater Washington and is republished here with permission. Individual companies have long elected to allow employees to trade their parking benefits for cash, of course, but a law that requires employers to offer the swap is a new idea. And when you think about it, it’s only fair […]
Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer
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It's tunnel vision! Lawmakers in New York are looking to Seattle for advice on how to fix a crumbling highway — but the Emerald City's experiment with a highway tunnel is no model. Here's why.
New York May Create a ‘Crash Victims Bill of Rights’
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Families for Safe Streets pioneers a first-in-the-nation plan to give victims of road violence the same rights that crime victims have.
Auto Right-of-Way Laws Are Where America Went Wrong
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Before the widespread adoption of the automobile, every road user had to think critically about whose turn it was to go — and a pedestrian in a car's path *always* meant the driver had to stand down.
The Broken Promises of the Ride-Share Revolution
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Uber, Lyft and their brethren promised to revolutionize mobility forever. Instead, they just exaggerated the worst aspects of car culture.