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Lemonade From Lemons: Six Improvements Worth Celebrating Within Flawed Infrastructure Bill
These are some of the IIJA's most notable successes — even if some of them are pretty incremental.
December 10, 2021
Advocates to Biden: There’s A Better Way to Address Rising Gas Prices
Sustainable transportation advocates are sending a clear message to Washington: the best way to address rising gas prices is to cut oil demand, not increase supply.
November 29, 2021
Congressional Maneuvering Delays Infrastructure Bill
Congress was forced to delay a vote on a bill that would have reauthorized the nation's major transportation programs last night, missing a critical midnight deadline and throwing the future of sustainable transport advocates' priorities into doubt.
October 1, 2021
Council Candidate: Hells Kitchen Needs Another 7 Train Station
Erik Bottcher calls for the revival of the unbuilt station at 41st Street and Tenth Avenue.
June 8, 2021
OPINION: The Time To Cap the Cross Bronx Is Now
President Biden's infrastructure bill creates an opening for rectifying a deadly historical wrong.
April 23, 2021
FROM DC: The GOP’s Smaller Infrastructure Bill Goes All-In On Cars
April 22, 2021
ABOUT TIME: US DOT Grant Program Will Prioritize ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Equity’
The feds want to explicitly reward governments that put equity and sustainability first in their transportation projects. But some advocates are holding their applause until they see how the department will actually define those critical terms.
April 14, 2021
Why Biden Is Right to Think Beyond the DOT in His Infrastructure Package
Opponents of President Biden's infrastructure plan ignore that "transportation infrastructure" must include tackling our frayed social safety nets and our broken street designs.
April 12, 2021
MEMO FROM THE MIDWEST: Buttigieg’s American Roots Might Make Him a Great USDOT Secretary
Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.
February 5, 2021
Memo to Buttigieg: US DOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration
January 21, 2021
