Blake Aued is a News Editor at Flagpole Magazine. He focuses on transportation and mobility, climate change, and regional interests, often exploring the intersections of public transportation, climate policy, and real estate. Blake's work has been featured in Streetsblog USA, Ecotopical, Flagpole Magazine, and NewsBreak.
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The Trump administration's designation of bike lanes as woke is drawing a lot of ridicule from the likes of Rolling Stone (paywall), which calls
Roads already receive a disproportionate amount of federal transportation funding, and it will get worse if Republicans have their way.
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A new Gallup poll found that Americans' No. 1 fear is car crashes. When asked about the greatest risk to their safety, 34 percent of respondents
Some traffic enforcement cameras are installed in a way that makes them dangerous to road users.
By: Blake Aued
Franklin D. Roosevelt had the New Deal, Harry Truman had the Fair Deal, and now Spencer Frye is pushing the Better Deal. The state representative from Athens recently released a populist, progressive blueprint for Democrats to win elections. And he plans to distribute it to his fellow party members all over the country. He put it together with the campaign team that he’s worked with since his 2010 campaign for mayor and 2012 election to the Georgia House of Representatives. “We just put down in writing everything we’ve been talking about for 14 years,” Frye told Flagpole. “We have a lot of things we need to fix that we’ve let slip.” Frye said the broad goal is to shift from […]
A U.S. Senate bill would result in the loss of $950 million in transit infrastructure funding.
By: Blake Aued
Gov. Brian Kemp made his first public appearance with Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson on Wednesday, more than a month after a bruising runoff in which Kemp endorsed Jackson’s opponent, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones. Kemp and Jackson jointly met with reporters at The Classic Center, in between individual onstage appearances at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s annual Congressional Luncheon. Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms also spoke at the event. “Today we have more people working than ever in the history of this state, and I believe that man [Jackson] can keep this going. That’s why I’m endorsing him,” Kemp said. Jackson, in turn, praised Kemp’s handling of the economy and the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m going to try to be at […]
Albuquerque and a bunch of other Sun Belt cities are the most dangerous for walking, according to an analysis of walk scores and pedestrian death statistics.
If you want to walk and bike safely, stay out of the South.
