Shifting traffic patterns are backing up decades of data: the way to fix our highways isn’t expanding capacity but rather managing demand.
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If we’re willing to learn, this experiment shows us how to fight congestion and get a more efficient transportation system.
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The New York Times (among others) is speculating that COVID-19 will spur a massive exodus from cities. These claims are based on two very dubious assumptions.
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A new study shows that car-dependent cities have fewer independent restaurants. This not only makes our places weaker, it makes them less interesting too.
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The Oregon Department of Transportation’s lies about safety are so blatant they can be seen 400 miles away.
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Does walkability promote economic mobility? A new study suggests so. But will planners, engineers, and policy-makers take notice?
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Long commutes and those who must endure them are reliable stories for a transportation reporter. What’s not often talked about is what lies behind the “super-commuting” phenomenon—cheap gas, sparse housing and inadequate transit.
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Flawed methodology. Lack of accountability. Discrepant data. Egregious assumptions. The new Urban Mobility Report will be used to make or justify transportation policies around the country, which makes it too wrong to be ignored.
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Another spate of headlines suggest that rapid suburban growth means that Millennial homebuyers must prefer the greener pastures of suburbia to life in inner-city neighborhoods. Here’s why the real story is not that simple.
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When you want to widen an urban freeway, just call it an “improvement.” Who can be against improvement?
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It’s not just ride-hailed traffic that causes congestion; its all traffic. Singling out these app-based services for regulation takes transportation policy down a dead-end route.
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We are channelling hundreds of billions into maintaining and expanding a system that does little for (and more often harm to) economic growth, and yet that's the number one reason the politicians and road lobbyists use to try and convince us that we need road funding.
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Truck freight movement gets a subsidy of between $57 and $128 billion annually in the form of uncompensated social costs, over and above what trucks pay in taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Building our cities to cater to the needs of car traffic have produced lower levels of livability. There are good reasons to believe that throwing more money at the existing system of building and operating streets will do little to make city life better.
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The thinking exposed in the Cappuccino Congestion Index is just another one of the reasons we have a #NoNewRoads mantra and have opposed all efforts to spend more money on this broken system. Reform must come before more money. If we don't reform this system now, we're just going to blow the little remaining wealth we have hastening our own insolvency.
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