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Mexico Made Safe Mobility a Human Right — Here’s How Its Streets Can Become Safer

The City Fix

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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‘Replace short haul flights with high speed rail’ say citizens around the world

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale Growing green long-distance public transport usage is critical to hitting carbon emission reduction targets and meeting global Net Zero requirements, and the research highlights how to achieve this modal shift. Hitachi train.

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Federal Funding, School Bus Program Creates Avenues for Cleaner Municipal Transit

NLC (National League of Cities)

Federal funding is available for municipal leaders looking to reduce carbon emissions in public transportation fleets. The transportation sector is the largest emitter of carbon in the U.S.

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The New York Times has an article on a bus shelter public art project, " Watching for the Bus Stop Gallery." 9, the artist, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. From the article: Starting Aug.

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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C

The City Fix

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. The fact is, racism happened/happens.