In 2024, 112 million Americans — 35% of people aged 3 and older — rode a bike at least once. That’s the highest participation rate recorded since the study began in 2014, reinforcing the pandemic-driven cycling boom as more than just a temporary trend.
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Between the January 5 start of congestion pricing and Thursday March 6, the city’s 311 portal registered just 67 complaints about honking inside the so-called congestion relief zone. That’s a steep 69% decline from the same period in 2024, when ticked-off New Yorkers in the ZIP codes below 60th Street complained 219 times about honking, according to 311 data.
A neighborhood street near John F. Kennedy Airport has become a virtual parking lot for 18-wheeler trucks, other commercial vehicles and live-in trailers — filling the area with the truckers, engine noise and piles of garbage.
The earliest jughandle on record was constructed in 1959 on Route 46 in Montville, though history has not assigned the honor of its mention to any specific individual.
American roads have grown deadlier for everyone, but the toll on pedestrians has been disproportionate. From a record low in 2009, the number of pedestrians being killed by vehicles rose 83 percent by 2022 to the highest it's been in 40 years. During that time, overall traffic deaths increased by just 25 percent. Now, a new study from AAA has identified a number of common factors that can explain why so many more pedestrians have died.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), chair of the EPW committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), ranking member of the EPW committee, both highlighted their good working relationship and mutual desire to maintain a “bipartisan focus” as work begins on the next federal surface transportation reauthorization funding package.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, approximately one-third of the nation’s residents don’t have driver’s licenses. In her 2024 book “When Driving is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency,” disability advocate Anna Zivarts argues that not only is America’s car-centric infrastructure harmful to the climate, it also fails to meet the everyday needs of many Americans.
Like other states, Michigan is seeing declining revenues due to electric vehicles. It's pulled a pilot program to try out a fee system based on miles traveled due to lack of funding, which critics call short-sighted.
New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez today announced that the agency will establish on-street 'microhub zones,' as part of a local delivery hub pilot to address the negative environmental and public safety effects of truck deliveries. Microhub Zones were officially authorized today by administrative rule
The idea is to make it easier for drivers of passing vehicles to be able to see pedestrians — in this case, young children — without parked cars obstructing the view.