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In Jersey City, Mayor James Solomon will install 100 quick-build safety measures, giving a new meaning to the term, "Safety first."

In New Jersey, Mayors Show How Quickly We Can Slow Down Drivers — Streetsblog USA

The American City That Solved Traffic Deaths Every year, thousands of Americans die on streets that could be mad...

"If the Langenkamp provisions survive those negotiations on Capitol Hill, though, they will explicitly encourage communities across America to spend their guaranteed Highway Safety Improvement Program dollars on filling gaps in their active transportation networks for the first time.

Even better, these provisions will allow communities to fortify their bike lanes and greenways with federal money alone. In years past, the same process required an onerous local match that many governments pointed to as an excuse to neglect people outside of cars in their HSIP plans."

A Rolling Protest Helped Win Some of the Best Provisions in Congress' New Infrastructure Bill — Streetsblog USA ...and the advocates behind the ride are doing it again soon.

Peer-reviewed studies: sharrows INCREASE danger to bicyclists. Painted lines offer no protection whatsoever (no reduction in fatalities) and actually lead to motor vehicles passing closer to cyclists (because the lines establish clear vehicle "territory"). Dooring is deadly, yet many bike lanes are immediately adjacent to the door opening radius of parked vehicles.

Why American Bike Lanes are So Deadly Every year, millions of cyclists ride inside painted bike lanes without a second thought. They see the markings, trust the lines, and assume someone checked ...

"We can think about congestion not as a phenomenon in need of reduction but rather as an experience that should be optional. Congestion becomes optional if we provide good alternatives to driving. This would require a shift in funding away from highway expansion projects that have at best a short-term effect on congestion to alternatives such as transit, biking, and walking that give people a long-term way to avoid it. It would also require changes in land use patterns to improve the viability of these alternatives and that would, as a bonus, enable shorter driving trips. We would also need to make housing more affordable in these places, and one way to do that is to waste less land on roads and parking. ...

The congestion problem stems in part from the fact that cars are a spatially inefficient way to move people: each car requires considerable roadway and parking space but carries less than 1.5 people on average in the US. From a space efficiency standpoint, it would make sense to devote more road space to modes such as transit, biking, and walking that consume far less space per person moved."

Opinion: It's Time to Rethink Our Congestion Obsession — Streetsblog USA Policymakers constantly suggest that we need to spend billions of dollars and bulldoze countless acres of land to fix traffic jams. But do we?

Judge Blocks Trump Admin's Attempt to Demolish D.C. Bike Lane — Streetsblog USA Advocates successfully blocked the removal of DC’s 15th Street Bike Lane — setting a national example for how to preserve safe biking infrastructure.

Calling all active transportation experts! What’s better on a bridge - one fat sidewalk or a medium sidewalk plus bike lanes? These are the two options for the new Glacier Creek Bridge in Glacier on Hwy 542.

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Hey Washington residents! You can now apply for Washington State Dept. of Transportation (WSDOT) ebike rebates. $300 and $1200 rebates available. Drawings for winners will be held monthly starting April 13th. Click the link in our bio for all the details.

Whatcom riders brace for WTA fare increase - Salish Current March 26, 2026Whatcom riders brace for WTA fare increase Mabaindu MbawaTransportationaccessibilityeducationpublic transitA pending fare increase is raising concerns for Whatcom Transportation Authority paratransit and student riders. (Amy Nelson / Salish Current) March 26, 2026Whatcom riders brace f...