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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
How the New Infrastructure Deal Will Make Transit Better
...especially if the Build Back Better Act passes through reconciliation later this month.
November 9, 2021
What’s In (And Out Of) the New Reconciliation Bill For Sustainable Transport
Most programs favored by sustainable transportation advocates have survived negotiations over the massive social infrastructure package that's held up the country's transportation ambitions for months — though a few of them have gotten a little skinnier.
November 2, 2021
US DOT Promises National ‘Safe Systems Approach’ After Historic Road Violence Surge
The Department of Transportation is promising radical new changes to federal approach to roadway safety following a report that showed the largest six-month increase in roadway fatalities ever recorded by the agency.
November 1, 2021
Kerry Warns Budget Bill Delay Will Hold Global Climate Goals Hostage
Centrist bickering over the size of the Democrats' budget reconciliation will have dire consequences for key international climate goals, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry warns — and sustainable transportation priorities will be dealt a particularly hard blow.
October 19, 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
‘Very Flawed’ Infrastructure Bill Passes
The infrastructure bill that passed the Senate won't meet the challenges of ending climate change and reducing traffic violence, advocates said.
August 11, 2021
Biden’s Climate Vision is Too Focused on EVs — Again
August 7, 2021
Advocates Find Surprises in Infrastructure Bill
Here are a few of the highlights — and outrages — that are lighting up Twitter feeds this week.
August 6, 2021
REPORT: Federal Recreational Trails Program Underfunded by $200M+ Per Year
And it affects not only distant rural bike paths, but also our own Hudson River Greenway.
August 3, 2021
