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Eno: Stop Obsessing Over the Gas Tax and Change How We Fund Transpo

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 4, 2014 | No Comments

Twenty years ago, Japan’s electoral reform redistributed power, giving urban constituencies a greater voice. One result: Japan eliminated its version of the Highway Trust Fund, which urban voters saw as satisfying the interests of the construction lobby, not their own. If city-dwellers had a greater voice in the United States, would the same thing happen? […]

How Does the Threat of Police Violence Affect How You Use the Street?

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2014 | No Comments

When the news came out yesterday that a Staten Island grand jury had failed to indict officer Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner with an illegal chokehold, like many people I found the outcome difficult to comprehend. With clear video evidence showing that Pantaleo broke NYPD protocol and a coroner’s report certifying that Garner’s death […]

A Better Way to Spend $1 Billion Than Ramming More Roads Thru Milwaukee

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 3, 2014 | No Comments

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is set on widening Interstate 94, a highway that runs east-west through Milwaukee. The agency is so committed to this idea that it is proceeding, at great expense and over the objections of Milwaukee’s mayor, with a project to double-deck a portion of the road through a relatively densely populated […]

Talking Headways: You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party Politics

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 13, 2014 | No Comments

Has the stupor worn off yet? Election Day was last Tuesday, and we’ll be living with the results for years. But Beth Osborne, a former Hill staffer and U.S. DOT official now at Transportation for America, says the changes on the Hill are no big deal: Nothing was getting done anyway. So Beth, Jeff, and […]

Curtains for St. Louis’ Delmar Loop Trolley Plans?

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 12, 2014 | No Comments

For years, St. Louis and adjacent University City have been planning a 2.2-mile streetcar that would connect the thriving Delmar Loop business district to the museums in nearby Forest Park. In 2010, the plan won a competitive $22 million federal “Urban Circulator” grant. That funding, along with a 1 percent sales tax increase approved by area […]

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