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Chicago's annual "Bike the Drive" event opened up the eight-lane DuSable Lake Shore Drive for 15 miles, giving cyclists the ability to enjoy the waterfront road free from the sound, sight, smell, vibrations, and danger of car traffic. chi.streetsblog.org/2024/09/03/ano…

According to the League of American Bicyclists, some 22 states have now adopted some form of rolling stops. momentummag.com/study-show-rol…

It's really easy to express our horror when cyclists like Johnny and Matty Gaudreau are killed by drunk drivers. It's so much harder to confront the systemic reasons why deaths like these keep happening over and over — and why we keep letting them. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/04/wha…

The incipient wave of EV purchases raises a question: What will happen to the millions of gas-powered cars whose owners no longer want them? vox.com/future-perfect…

TIL that NYC bicycle legend George Bliss is phasing out his retail & repair op at Walkabout Cycles this month to focus on inventing-designing-building cargo bikes. Deals abound. 148 Flushing Ave (corner Vanderbilt), opp Navy Yard. Bike culture both traditional & futuristic.

A suburb northwest of Houston decided to cut 79 bus routes. They saved $4 million, but created a traffic nightmare every single day at pickup and drop-off. slate.com/business/2024/…

"While we cannot deny that we have seen a disturbing increase in traffic violence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can no longer police our way out of traffic violence anymore now than we could in 2019." nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…

In other news, water is wet. autoblog.com/2024/08/31/exp…

School buses can be the main transit service in sprawling areas, but they're often leaving many students behind. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/05/thu…

"Park(ing) Day is about envisioning and showing people the value of the space that we're currently using to store cars, and, by extension, the opportunity cost of using that space as parking versus all of the other things that it could be." usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/05/thi…

Another pedestrian has been killed on one of the deadliest streets in one of the least-safe cities in Massachusetts for traffic violence. mass.streetsblog.org/2024/09/03/spr…

This week on Talking Headways, we’re joined by podcaster and transit expert Paul Comfort and former California State Transportation Agency Secretary David Kim to talk about their book The New Future of Public Transportation. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/05/tal…

Car ownership is becoming more expensive thanks to rising insurance costs. ssti.us/2024/09/03/sev…

Charlotte, NC's city council purchased a disused freight rail line with eyes to turn it into a commuter train. wfae.org/politics/2024-…

Oregon's Department of Transportation is trying to convince Portland's Black community that its proposed freeway-widening project could be a form of economic reparations, rather than a doubling down on traffic, pollution and displacement. wweek.com/news/2024/09/0…

A recent New York Times op-ed posited that a dip in traffic enforcement lead to a rise in traffic deaths. But one NextCity writer isn't so sure that correlation implies causation. Learn more in headlines. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/06/fri…

Pedestrians are dying so often on Chicago roads that Streetsblog can't even cover them all. @StreetsblogCHI pays homage to the lost. chi.streetsblog.org/2024/09/05/rec…

As America’s top legal analyst, let me break this down. The people “doing a lawsuit” will be “in a courtroom” so they can “say some stuff” to a “judge”

New York City has some big plans to protect people on bikes. But how do they actually take those ideas from a pipe dream to a concrete reality? @streetfilms gives you a tour. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/06/fri…

New York is getting "a single repository where the disparate findings from multiple agencies about road crashes will be stored and analyzed" to identify ways to save lives. Does your city need this, too? nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/09/06/hug…