"The 10 metro areas with the smallest impact from rising gas prices have about double the number of people per square mile as the 10 cities where costs have increased the most."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nice work.
Yup, there are 35-40k people dying on our roadways because of all the people walking home from bars.
With people like that in charge, no wonder our safety performance is so pitiful.
That is so much money, way more than what people typically spend on the federal gas tax. And it isn't like the car was cheap. Sheesh.
Yes!!!
But they haven't.
So we are going to work with law enforcement to punish you and with states and other stakeholders to teach you to blame yourself. (And get hospitals ready with blood for when you are inevitably hurt.) Just don't look behind the curtain where we are using your tax dollars to *set you up*. 3/3
Never mind that we design roads for a higher speed than what is posted (known as speed traps). Never mind that we permit speeds that make it impossible for you to spot a problem and stop in time. Never mind that we make pedestrians walk on the road and provide few crossings. You are the problem. 2/3
NHTSA to the American people: It's not me, it's you!
You drive too fast, you drive impaired and distracted, you don't use your seat belt. 1/3
www.nhtsa.gov/pathways-to-...
Fantastic point! I could not agree more. Also civil engineering is often not the skill we need to manage a previously built system. A civil engineer would focus on building the next increment, while a systems engineer would focus on getting greater efficiency and value out of the existing system.
The systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel are convenient but don't improve safety because people who use them often pay less attention to the road, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said March 31.
www.ttnews.com/articles/nts...
Amazing how the Trump Administration has opposed most options that would help Americans save on gas. www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...
What to know about Safe Streets and Roads for All grants
@smartgrowthusa.bsky.social has helped communities secure over $8 million from SS4A and is offering limited support to help more communities succeed in what may be the final round. Learn more...
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Safety comes at extremely high cost. The cheapest, the Nissan Armada, is $58,840 for the super base level—and if you click on it, the price jumps to $61,085. The fuel economy is 16 MPG city, 20 MPG highway. Filling the tank costs almost $100 today.
www.usatoday.com/story/cars/r...
USDOT claims record low traffic deaths. Save your celebrations.
Fatalities are back to the 2019 level and far above 2014.
Even with the decrease, fatalities per 100,000 people is still way above any country that we would consider a peer.
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Trump budget: gas prices are high and going up but you can save money
-with a more efficient car...nope.
-with an EV...nope.
-by taking transit...nope.
-by walking or biking more...nope.
You can save money by staying home.
We don’t spend hundreds of billions of dollars on transportation to spend money or provide stability. We spend it to accomplish something—to address safety, repair, mobility, emissions. But no matter how much we put into this program, we are not making progress. So…
t4america.org/2026/03/27/p...
When they say safety is their top priority, remember it is a lie...
Buckle Up, Women. Cars Still Aren’t Built for You. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...
I never trust anyone hocking a product or tech if they can't see how it could be misused or make things worse. AVs are a perfect example. People only consider what could go right, which will lead to so much will go wrong. If we'd prep, we could prevent it with good policies.
@corrigansalerno.bsky.social from @t4america.bsky.social tells us how Baltimore can have World Class Public Transit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF8S...
Something felt off—the steering wheel jerked one way then the other and the car decelerated in a way I didn’t expect. I turned the wheel to take over. I don’t know exactly what the system was doing, or why. I only know...we ended up colliding with a wall. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
That's one strategy to improve safety. I'm saying measuring deaths per VMT creates a perverse safety intervention. More people driving looks like improvement even if the same number of people die.
That is more interesting to me. So schools are teaching both but it still doesn't work its way into practice. Fascinating.
Interesting. Minnesota's roads are safer than most American states. I've worked with MnDOT and hadn't seen them apply the fatalities per capital in the work. I'm glad to hear that has changed.
Provocative. But not wrong.
Interesting. Tell me more. Who is using both?
