What costs $230 billion and shortchanges pedestrian and bicycle safety and already cash-strapped urban transit systems?

The Obama administration announced earlier this week that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are working toward a fuel economy fleet-average standard of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025.

While a lot of attention is being paid to new surface transportation authorizations from the House and Senate, Representative David Wu (D-Oregon) introduced another transportation-related bill Monday that aims to fund research on alternative transportation.

Boston’s City Council voted unanimously last week to ban Segways from its sidewalks.

Today is the sixth annual National Dump the Pump Day, a day meant not only to raise awareness of our dependence on foreign oil, but also to remind us of the benefits of public transportation.

Experience in the White House isn’t the only thing from Washington that Rahm Emanuel has brought with him to Chicago. He also brought the District’s former Department of Transportation Director Gabe Klein.

How to get from Boston to San Francisco?

Does your community deserve credit for all the work it’s done trying to become a better place for pedestrians? Better act fast: The next round of Walk Friendly Communities applications are due next week.

What goes up, must come down, and that seems to include gas prices too.