Streetsblog USA

More than $3 billion is flowing out of the White House to help correct infrastructure mistakes in Black communities.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/29/mondays-headlines-reconnect-with-pete

App delivery companies seek to block worker-led improvements by spending big money on political influence, leveraging their data, and even co-opting progressive language, argues a new report that...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/29/buy-bully-bamboozle-report-shows-app-companies-threaten-democracy

An influential report pins responsibility for the climate crisis to just a handful of oil, gas and cement producers. But who's buying what they're selling — and who's creating policy that make...

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/29/how-the-myth-that-100-companies-are-responsible-for-climate-change-hides-the-true-impact-of-automobility

Two outlets recently featured articles on the harmful effects of ongoing freeway projects.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/26/thursdays-headlines-are-down-on-highways

What happened in West Portal was entirely predictable and preventable. The city must now close Ulloa to through traffic and make sure it can never happen again.

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/04/25/commentary-there-is-zero-ambiguity-to-the-west-portal-tragedy

Jim Kumon of Electric Housing discusses his work as a developer and urban policy educator in the Twin Cities.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/25/talking-headways-podcast-details-of-development-reform-in-minnesota-part-1

Can you take me to the store, and then the bank? I've got five dollars you can put in the tank.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/25/thursdays-headlines-dont-like-riding-on-the-passenger-side

Rising interstate speeds don't just make roads deadlier for people who drive on them — and local decision makers need to be prepared.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/25/study-when-speed-limits-rise-on-interstates-so-do-crash-hot-spots-on-nearby-roads

Also passed yesterday were S.B 961, the Complete Streets bill, a bill on Bay Area transit funding, and a prohibition on state funding for Class III bikeways.

https://cal.streetsblog.org/2024/04/24/bill-to-require-speed-control-in-vehicles-goes-soft

A deputy mayor made a flat-out promise to eliminate illegal police parking that violates the Americans With Disabilities Act. But when? How? We don't know.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/24/under-threat-of-federal-suit-again-city-hall-promises-action-on-unacceptable-illegal-police-parking