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With millions in federal funding, PennDOT charges ahead on EV infrastructure development in Pa.
Cassie Miller • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
PennDOT reports that there are more than 31,000 EVs registered in Pennsylvania, nearly triple the roughly 9,700 that were registered in March 2019…
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Tailpipe Dreams? Big Cities Plot the Death of Car Reliance
Skip Descant • Government Technology
If transportation planners are to actually reduce the sector’s contribution to climate-warming pollution, transit needs to be more agile and able to quickly serve the mobility needs of an evolving society…
U.S. House Passes Fiscal 2023 Transportation Bill
Roads and Bridges
The U.S. House of Representatives have approved legislation to fund federal transportation in 2023…
Want to curb traffic? Build homes near jobs and transit, COG leader says.
Katherine Shaver • The Washington Post
The director of the D.C. region’s council of governments says lower-income residents need more help to live near, and walk and cycle to, transit stations…
America’s Bus Driver Shortage Has Left Transit Systems in Crisis
Skylar Woodhouse • Bloomberg
With the nation’s current drivers retiring in large numbers, agencies need to cultivate a new generation of transit operators, a new report says…
Here’s how the electric vehicle revolution is going
Lee Powell • The Washington Post
If you listen, you can hear whirs rather than roars. If you look, you can see charging stations in grocery store parking lots or by libraries…
US Postal Service to boost purchases of electric vehicles
David Sharp • Associated Press
The U.S. Postal Service plans to further increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its aging fleet of delivery trucks…
The Deadliest US Metro Areas for Pedestrians
Daniel C. Vock • Route Fifty
Crashes that killed people on foot went up after the pandemic began. New research looks at the places that saw the sharpest increases and the factors that make their streets especially dangerous…
The City of Pittsburgh Has Adopted The Ambitious Oakland Plan
Ollie Gratzinger • Pittsburgh Magazine
The 10-year plan will address community needs, development, mobility and infrastructure throughout the neighborhood. Here’s what could be changing soon…
A summer of orange cones, delays, pedestrian peril … and hope?
TyLisa C. Johnson • Public Source
Here’s how to travel safely in the Pittsburgh region, as pedestrian deaths and construction spike…
US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption
Tom Randall • Bloomberg
Once 5% of new-car sales go fully electric, everything changes — according to a Bloomberg analysis of the 19 countries that have made the EV pivot…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit to begin $6.7 million South Busway rehabilitation
Ladimir Garcia • Pittsburgh City Paper
The Pittsburgh Regional Transit, formerly Port Authority, is set to begin a $6.7 million rehabilitation project this week on a two-mile stretch of the South Busway…
