In St. Louis you can do this with street trees ...and I may or may not know someone who's done it upwards of 100 times. :)

When Traffic Violence Hits The Same Family Twice — Years Apart, On Exactly the Same Street — Streetsblog USA The deaths of a Colorado married couple has some mourning an eerie coincidence — and others outraged at two predictable tragedies that could have been prevented.

I would love to know how many U.S. families have lost multiple members to traffic violence, especially in separate crashes. Because this is not the first story on a husband and wife dying in exactly the same place that I've reported, and unless something changes, it definitely won't be the last.

“Why Do We Do This Bill?”: Preparing Congressional Staff for Surface Transportation Reauthorization — Streetsblog USA A top advocacy organization is preparing Congress to take a critical look at the upcoming transportation reauthorization — and it's not easy.

IMO, we cannot possibly underestimate how little our elected officials and their staff actually know about how transportation works. And when you really look it in the face, it's obvious why we have the transportation system we do, and what we need to do to fix it.

What If All Cars Were Autonomous, Electric, and Free? — Streetsblog USA Can we really solve the problems of car dominance just by making cars less destructive?

In which I share my go-to "fuck around and find out" tactic when arguing with end-stage carbrain

Sustainable Action! Streetsblog Is Making a Feature Film — Streetsblog USA A new franchise — and here's how you can be a part of it.

Really stoked about this news.

How To Fix The Broken Gas Tax — Streetsblog USA Drivers aren't paying their fair share — and no one else is getting their due. Is it time to rethink our federal road funding mechanisms?

Spoiler: there isn't an easy answer! But not building so many damn highways is a good start.

Trump's 'Freedom Means Affordable Cars' Rings Hollow As Gas Prices Surge — Streetsblog USA Real freedom is the freedom to choose how you get around — including not driving at all.

Wrote about why Trump's 'Freedom Means Affordable Cars' initiative (yes, they really called it that) is bullshit, why mass forced car dependency will never be affordable *or* liberating, and why the latest gas shock only makes it more obvious what this is all about: enriching automotive interests.

How a 'Universal Basic Neighborhood' Can Help Americans Live Longer — Streetsblog USA Want to increase your chances of living to 80? A new paper argues we need to start with our neighborhoods — and we need to do it for everybody.

Really enjoyed this conversation about applying the idea of "universal basics" to neighborhoods, why it it *is* possible to give every person access to good transit, biking, and walking options, and why we actually can't afford not to do it. It's like Blue Zones without all the secret pension fraud!

What Urbanists' Doug Burgum Lovefest Reveals About the 'Why' Behind Our Advocacy — Streetsblog USA I am far less interested in talking about Gov. Doug Burgum's politics than talking about his values, and how those values shape his urbanism, and thus the actual lives of the people he governs.

As an aside: because the lanes are sited on National Park land, the Trump admin that greenlit this was the Department of the Interior, which is lead by Doug Burgum. He gets a lot of praise from safe streets folks for being a GOP champion of good urbanism. Well...guess what just went out the window?

D.C. Advocates Sue To Save Key Bike Lane From Trump Teardown — Streetsblog USA We previously reported that the Trump administration might soon move to dismantle key cycle tracks in the nation's capital. Unfortunately, we were right.

In early January we reported on a leaked document that showed that Trump administration was fishing for congestion-related excuses to rip out a bunch of bike lanes in D.C. Now one of the lanes on that list is actually slated for removal.

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Why Transit Advocates Aren't 100% Behind This Senator's Bold Bill To Slash Highway Funding — Streetsblog USA A new Republican bill could bring rampant highway overspending to a halt and slash emissions by one-fifth. But don't get too excited because it would hurt transit, too.

Things I learned while writing this: by next year, the amount of general tax revenue we will need to subsidize the highway trust fund every year will be almost enough to *literally end world hunger,* and 4x more than we need to eradicate homelessness in the U.S.

And that's just the shortfall.

Yep. I am not anti-AV! It just needs to be part of a balanced ecosystem of transportation options, rather than an apex predator sent to destroy all others.

Waymos Are a Huge Drain on Public Resources, Government Data Shows Data from San Francisco's transit agency shows the stunning ways Waymo shirks accountability for its fleet of robotaxis.

Something I think about a lot is how different our world would look if we took the $100billion+ we've invested in autonomous vehicle development alone and put into street safety infrastructure in our cities instead. And the subsidies don't stop with R&D.

The True Cost of Gasoline: $15 Per Gallon | Smart Cities Dive

Research q: anyone know where I can find an updated estimate for this number that center for investigative reporting (cc @revealnews.org) came up with 11 years ago?

Why Anti-Trans Laws Are Terrible For Transportation, Too — Streetsblog USA A disturbing new Kansas law revokes trans people's driver's licenses. Here's how it will make our communities more dangerous.

IDK who needs this, but here's a breakdown of why Kansas' anti-trans driver's license law is bullshit, why this is absolutely a transportation reform issue, and how cruel and dangerous it is to make people in car dependent places choose between legal driving and not denying their basic identities.

This is fucked and if you’re a “street safety” person this is absolutely your issue

Shoveling a Snowy Sidewalk Is An Act of Resistance — Streetsblog USA Shoveling a sidewalk in winter is always a critical act of community care — but in an era of government assault on civil liberties, it's also an act of resistance.

"When our government is not just apathetic but an aggressor against our communities,... we need to resist today by creating systems of community care that get people where they need to go right now, even in the most terrible storms." @keawilson.bsky.social usa.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/s...

How to convert a bike into a snow plow Across most of the US and Canada right now, cities are digging themselves out from the first “snowmageddon” of the winter. Highways and streets are getting plowed. Pedestrian sidewalks are getting sho...

Also inspired by DIYers like this. If you have other examples, lmk.

...though IMO really, we should be funding more programs that would make sidewalk clearance a government responsibility.

+ a few links. Minneapolis has the best snow clearance guide of any municipality I've seen; the *least* a government can do is give residents good guidance on how to take care of sidewalks.

Much like resisting violent political systems, clearing snow off sidewalks is a skill that communities can develop together. Every storm can make us stronger, or it can bury us. And even when we feel most powerless, we still get to decide which."

We can even be the ones who hit the phones and fight for the while the young and able-bodied are out there sweating in the snow.

We can remind them to clear from curb to curb, and not to wear a coat when they're about to overheat, and how much and what kind of salt to use. We can put together the neighborhood fund for the community-owned electric snow blower, or the DIY bike lane plow.

And if we can't safely shovel, we can find other ways to resist, too. We can organize our neighbors who *can* plow, and make sure they understand how to do it both safely and well.

Whether we clear our sidewalks of ice so immigrants and protestors can outrun ICE violence, or so the octogenarian down the block can walk her dog without fear of a deadly slip, plowing is a way to reclaim our collective power, and an opportunity to create the kind of community we want to live in.

"If we're able, shoveling a sidewalk in winter is one of the most concrete and impactful ways that we can do to resist a government whose actions are actively eroding our collective right to free movement — and literally clear a path to other kinds of resistance, too.

A few grafs towards the end got cut for length that included some concrete tips on shoveling + supporting neighbors who do when you can't, so I'm adding them here:

Shoveling a Snowy Sidewalk Is An Act of Resistance — Streetsblog USA Shoveling a sidewalk in winter is always a critical act of community care — but in an era of government assault on civil liberties, it's also an act of resistance.

This pubbed a week ago while I was on vacation someplace warm (yes, I did pay someone to shovel my walk while I was gone), but wrote about why mutual aid is getting more important for street safety, especially as government gets more violent.

Fellow snowbelt folks: what is your number one tip for clearing a sidewalk of snow? Having a weirdly hard time finding a guide that's specifically geared towards plowing so pedestrians of all ability levels can move comfortably and thinking about compiling one of my own.