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Explore the latest blog posts from T4A with expert analysis and updates on key transportation and infrastructure topics.

Our three principles

Despite record levels of federal transportation spending, traffic, emissions, and pedestrian deaths keep rising. It’s time to focus on what truly matters: a transportation system that safely and efficiently serves everyday people.

Any serious effort to reduce deaths on our streets and roads requires slower speeds. Federal funding should require approaches and street designs that put safety first.

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If your house has a leaky roof, you fix that before remodeling your kitchen. The federal transportation program should do the same and prioritize existing maintenance needs ahead of building new things which require decades of additional repair costs.

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For 60 years we’ve invested hundreds of billions of dollars in highways. Now it’s time to invest in the rest to create a complete transportation network so more Americans can safely travel by foot, bike, bus, or train.

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Numbers tell the story

Helping you better understand what’s happening in transportation through facts and data.

190MMT

How much the IIJA could increase emissions by 2040. (Million metric tonnes)

Read "Fueling The Crisis"
30,511

Total freeway lane-miles added to the largest urbanized areas from 1993-2017

Read "The Congestion Con"
Over 1M

Americans displaced during the first two decades of building the Interstate System

Read "Divided by Design"

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