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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!

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…

Putting the Village Back in Essex Junction

—By Robin Pierce— “The Five Corners? Why would I want to go through the Five…

Clean, Convenient Travel: Diversifying Our Transportation System

—By Kate McCarthy— Winter came early this year, and I suspect I wasn’t the only…

A Foreign Land: A Trip to Montreal with Local Motion

—By Jon Kaplan— It had been at least 15 years since I took a trip…

Coming Out of the Country: An Ode to Walkable Locations

—By Faith Ingulsrud— Three years ago, I gave up my beloved rural home and moved…