In areas of sub-Saharan Africa with underdeveloped infrastructure, children have died too many times on the way to participate in education — many more children die than in other parts of the world due to traffic accidents, and other parts of the world are still too high.
Thirty-six people died in traffic crashes in Washington, D.C., last year, a 20% increase from 2017. Eight people, six of whom were walking or biking, have already been killed this year, prompting a major public rally just two weeks ago. Residents are angry that the city isn’t succeeding in curbing road deaths, despite the fact that Mayor Muriel Bowser committed to end traffic fatalities entirely by 2024.
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are working to clean up and modernize the region’s transportation system, supported by groups like the Our Transportation Future coalition, which includes NRDC.
The WRI Ross Prize For Sustainable Cities is chosen by a jury of multidisciplinary experts together evaluating the merits of world-class social improvements and sustainable city progress.
Owing to the recent election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America, and some of the comments that he’s made to date about infrastructure spending and job creation, the folks over at Bike League recently reposted an old article of theirs discussing the fact that infrastructure projects that incorporate bicycle and pedestrian elements create more jobs than road-only projects. A lot more.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced that over the next 5 years London will invest £770 million into various bicycling support programs, infrastructure, and initiatives — roughly doubling the amount spent on bicycling support by former mayor Boris Johnson.
As I noted yesterday, CleanTechnica‘s upcoming Wrocław Cleantech Revolution Tour conference is packed with great EV experts, speakers, and troublemakers, but remember that this isn’t the only event CleanTechnica is participating in next month. The premier EV Transportation & Technology Summit, 6 time zones away, is taking place one week later in … [continued]
As a CleanTechnica reader, you are forced to attend the upcoming EV Transportation & Technology Summit — literally, forced. Okay, let’s just calm down a little bit. More seriously, the upcoming EV Transportation & Technology Summit in Cocoa, Florida, looks like it’s going to be an excellent EV education and networking opportunity, and I … [continued]
Originally published on ExpertSure. By Paul Mackie and Howard Jennings What does transportation in the U.S. city of the future look like? Mobility Lab gets asked this a lot because it’s clear that people have had it with the crushing traffic that dominates most of our cities, and 3 out … [continued]
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