Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to the launch of the US Department of Transportation’s new Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program.
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to projections from the Governors Highway Safety Association that U.S. pedestrian deaths rose 5% in the first half of 2022 compared to the year before:
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) announcement awarding $185 million in grants to reconnect communities previously divided by transportation infrastructure:
Throughout the past year, cities grappled with a litany of challenges old and new, including a 16-year-high in U.S. traffic fatalities, economic inflation, the continued disruption wrought by the pandemic, and the ever-present crises of climate change and racial injustice. Nevertheless, 2022 also proved to be a year filled with creativity, resilience, and hope, both…
NACTO applauds the Biden-Harris Administration for not only providing urgently-needed funding through Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) to dozens of communities to stem the traffic safety crisis, but also for working with cities across the country to design the program to maximize the number of lives it will save on local streets. Safe…
Over the weekend, we, like many, witnessed the brutal reality of state-sanctioned violence in the United States. All of us at NACTO are sickened and outraged by the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. Nichols’ encounter with the police began with a traffic stop, underscoring the many ways in which racism, police violence, and…
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