Beto O’Rourke brings a strong urbanist, inclusive message to the presidential campaign The 2020 Democratic presidential race has been remarkable for addressing both climate change and housing policy issues that have long been ignored. For example, as the Brookings Institution’s…
The Transportation Research Board, nominally an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is engaged in technocratic climate arson with its call for further highway expansion and more car travel. The planet is in imminent peril from global warming, with…
We’re killing more people because more people are ignoring traffic signals We’ve charted the ominous increase in road deaths in the past several years, and now there’s a new bit of evidence of just how bad the problem has become.…
What City Observatory did this week 1. 20 Reasons to ignore the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report. It’s back. After a four-year hiatus Texas A&M University’s transportation institute trotted out another iteration of its periodic urban mobility report, which…
After a four year hiatus, the Texas Transportation Institute has once again generated its misleading Urban Mobility Report–and its still wrong. The UMR has been comprehensively debunked–it has never been peer-reviewed nor have its authors responded to authoritative critiques, it…