People, Places, and Transportation

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Welcome to People, Places, and Transportation, a blog about how to shape a cleaner, greener, more accessible, and more sustainable transportation future in Vermont. This is the next incarnation of the blog formerly housed at Sustainable Transportation Vermont. Stay awhile!

Crashes are No Accident

—By Mary Catherine Graziano— People walking and biking make up nearly 20% of traffic fatalities…

Why Transportation Matters

—By Kate McCarthy— We talk a lot about transportation—and rightly so, given its major contribution…

COVID-19 and Commuting: Making it Work

—By Kim Furtado— In early March 2020, I packed my bag with everything I would…

Winter biking can be fun! Here are some tips.

—By Kelly Duggan— Burlington’s snow-covered streetscape is a stark contrast to what we saw over…

TCI: A Way to Pay and a Future to Imagine

—By Johanna Miller— “That’s a nice idea, but how are we going to pay for…

More People in Fewer, Cleaner Vehicles

— By Eliana Fox — Before COVID-19, two of my European friends came to visit…

Welcome to People, Places, and Transportation

—By Brian Shupe— What comes to mind when we think about transportation today? For most…

COVID-19 and the Rise of Remote Work

— By Jonathan Slason — With more than 300 million Americans subject to some type…

Sharing Rides in the Age of Social Distancing

—By Stephen Falbel— For many years, transit agencies and their governmental partners at all levels…

Supply and Demand: Exploring Transportation Demand Management (TDM)

—By Jack Hanson— In 2000, the State of Vermont created Efficiency Vermont, a utility focused…

Stop Requiring Parking!

—By Josh Katz— No one likes parking lots. They’re ugly and expensive. They enable driving…

New Lanes for I-89? The Costs are High.

—By Richard Watts— At the close of a record-breaking decade of weather disasters, after Venice…

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