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America’s road department outlines its vision for the future of the country’s streets

Dec 16, 2021

FHWA will soon distribute an unprecedented $350 billion in infrastructure spending. NACTO applauds FHWA’s commitment to ensuring that this funding goes to projects that save lives, increase equity in our communities, and make meaningful progress on the climate crisis.

Better Guidance, Better Streets, Better Cities: We’re Updating the Urban Bikeway Design Guide

Dec 16, 2021

Over the next year, NACTO will release several working papers expanding bikeway guidance and covering the most critical gaps in vetted guidance for cities, including best practices for data collection, network design, equitable network design, and scaling success to better meet the challenges of our time.

Good Things to Come: USDOT Funds Projects That Will Meaningfully Improve People’s Lives

Nov 19, 2021

Today, USDOT made a strong down payment on their commitment to advancing safety, equity, and climate goals. From transit investments in Tampa, Oakland, Boston, and Baltimore, to redesigned intersections in Tuscaloosa, St. Louis, and Atlantic City, the federal funding awarded today will go to projects that make cities safer and more sustainable, and will meaningfully improve people’s lives across the country.

A $1.2 trillion opportunity to address America’s safety, equity, and climate crises

Nov 15, 2021

Today, President Biden signed into law a $1.2 trillion dollar opportunity to directly address America’s safety, equity, and climate crises. The unprecedented funding unlocked in the infrastructure bill could be a turning point that enables the U.S. to address longstanding faults and shortcomings in the country’s transportation system.

Infrastructure funding provides an unprecedented opportunity to address America’s safety, equity, and climate crises

Nov 06, 2021

The House has voted to advance the long-awaited Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, granting the U.S. new, unprecedented levels of funding for its infrastructure needs. With the bill’s passage comes a $1.2 trillion opportunity to directly address America’s safety, equity, and climate crises.

A turning point for America’s deadly roads?

Oct 28, 2021

Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to USDOT data showing a dramatic jump in American traffic fatalities and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg’s pledge to implement a Safe Systems Approach to traffic safety: America’s cities applaud Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for plainly calling […]

Committing to community: the 2021 Shared Micromobility and Cities for Cycling Roundtable

Oct 26, 2021

As cities locked down over spring 2020, people took to their people-powered wheels. From skyrocketing private bike sales (and the ascendance of e-bikes) to record-breaking ridership on bike share systems, last year’s boom showed the essential role bikes, scooters, and other forms of micromobility play in keeping people—and cities—moving. It also highlighted the need for […]

Set up for success: California tackles unsafe speeds, unreliable transit, and a lack of safe public places for people

Oct 20, 2021

While traffic safety continues to deteriorate across the US, California took action with three recently-passed laws that will begin to tackle unsafe speeds, make transit faster and more reliable, and provide safer places for people with open and slow streets. Safer Speed Limits in the Country’s Largest State In a major win for safety and […]

Reconciliation: A last chance for transit, climate, and equity in America’s infrastructure program

Sep 15, 2021

Corinne Kisner, Executive Director, and Janette Sadik-Khan, Chair of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s advancement of the Build Back Better Act: NACTO strongly supports the House’s forward-thinking proposals that would strengthen the infrastructure bill and squarely address the […]

NACTO Announces New Executive Board Leadership

Sep 09, 2021

Board Includes Visionary Leaders from Philadelphia, Houston, Austin, Chicago and Oakland Today, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), an association of 91 cities and transit agencies across North America, announced Mike Carroll, Deputy Managing Director of the Philadelphia Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (oTIS), as the board’s President, and Veronica O. Davis, […]

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