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2022 election results: Voters support 14 out of 19 transit ballot initiatives
Mass Transit
The initiatives passed this year will add billions in transit investment and brings the 2022 wins rate for public transit initiatives to 80.56 percent…
Research: Scooters Cut Car Travel and Emissions More Than Previously Thought
Kea Wilson • Streetsblog
Apair of new studies are challenging the myth that micromobility doesn’t cut car travel or reduce more emissions than the modes they tend to replace…
Will the infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act transform American transportation? It’s complicated.
Adie Tomer • Brookings
With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) this August, congressional lawmakers capped a historically productive year when it comes to transportation policy…
Pennsylvania to Spent $34.6 Million for Clean School Buses in 11 School Districts
PennWatch
Pennsylvania has been awarded $34.6 million for 89 new clean school buses in 11 school districts…
E.V. Bonanza Flows to Red States That Denounce Biden Climate Policies
Jack Ewing • The New York Times
No Republican in Congress voted for the Inflation Reduction Act. But their districts and states will greatly benefit from the investments spurred by the law…
When a Jeep smashed me and my bicycle, it flattened my life’s mission – and then came the traffic ticket
Laura Walsh • Public Source
Some two decades after I gave up cars, one hit me while pedaling down a street the City of Pittsburgh had declined to improve. The police blamed me…
Bus travel is back post-COVID, but trains are running behind
Joann Muller • Axios
Bus ridership is up, but trains are still half-empty as public transit systems across the U.S. try to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic…
Is It Possible To Phase Out Petroleum & Transform Our Transportation System?
Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura • Clean Technica
In a study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in collaboration with consulting firm Evolved Energy Research (EER) and an expert advisory committee, we show that the United States can drastically reduce global warming emissions by replacing a highly polluting transportation sector, powered today primarily with petroleum-based fuels, with a cleaner, more efficient and more equitable system powered primarily by renewable electricity…
Allegheny County to test drive a discount transportation program
Margaret J. Krauss • 90.5 WESA
For one year, some Allegheny County residents will be able to ride Pittsburgh Regional Transit at reduced prices, thanks to a pilot project announced Tuesday by the county executive’s office and the Department of Human Services…
I-579 Cap Project Named America’s Transportation Awards Finalist for Reconnecting Pittsburgh Communities
Editorial Staff • PennWatch
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that its I-579 Cap Urban Connector project is among the Top 12 finalists in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ 2022 America’s Transportation Awards competition…
Sustainable Transport Is About Much More Than Electrification
James Morris • Forbes
Arguments around sustainable transport get more complicated the closer you look…
Detroit highway to become boulevard to address wrongs to Black communities
David Shepardson • Reuters
A Detroit interstate highway whose construction devastated two historically Black neighborhoods will be turned into an urban boulevard – one of 26 major infrastructure projects that will be newly funded by the Biden administration…
