Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Federal Highway Administration

The American Highway Safety Establishment Warms Up Some Leftovers

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 20, 2015 | No Comments

A group of heavy hitters in the road building and traffic safety establishment recently came out with a plan called “Toward Zero Deaths” [PDF], presented as an ambitious strategy to cut traffic fatalities in America. But don’t get too excited by the branding — the ideas inside don’t present much of a challenge to practices that have made the U.S. […]

The Feds Quietly Acknowledge the Driving Boom Is Over

By Phineas Baxandall | Jan 7, 2015 | No Comments

The Federal Highway Administration has very quietly acknowledged that the driving boom is over. After many years of aggressively and inaccurately claiming that Americans would likely begin a new era of rapid driving growth, the agency’s more recent forecast finally recognizes that the protracted post-World War II era has given way to a different paradigm. […]

Documentary to Explore Racial Discrimination in Transportation Planning

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 29, 2014 | No Comments

Beavercreek, Ohio, nabbed its own infamous place in civil rights history last year, when the Federal Highway Administration ruled that the suburb had violated anti-discrimination laws by blocking bus service from nearby Dayton. The Beavercreek case marked the first time civil rights activists had successfully filed an administrative complaint with the FHWA against a public […]

U.S. DOT Releases New Guidance to Make Streets Safe for Cycling

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 10, 2014 | No Comments

Last month in Pittsburgh, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled a new federal initiative aimed at reducing pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Despite declining overall traffic fatalities, people walking and biking are being killed more often on American streets, a disturbing trend that U.S. DOT wants to reverse. Now we’re beginning to see what the feds have in […]

U.S. DOT to Publish Its Own Manual on Protected Bike Lanes

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2014 | No Comments

Before the end of this year, the Federal Highway Administration will release its own guidance on designing protected bike lanes. The agency’s positions on bicycling infrastructure has matured in recent years. Until recently, U.S. DOT’s policy was simple adherence to outdated and stodgy manuals like AASHTO’s Green Book and FHWA’s own Manual on Uniform Traffic […]

FHWA Gleefully Declares That Driving Is Up, Calls for More Highway Spending

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 2, 2014 | No Comments

Well, so much for the predictions that changing preferences and new technologies will lead to a car-free utopia. The Federal Highway Administration announced last week that after nine years of steady decline, vehicle-miles-traveled in the U.S. was 1.4 percent higher this June than last June. Apparently, red-blooded Americans everywhere are finally getting back to their […]

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