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Why do so many Americans die while walking?
To find out, I spoke with University of New Mexico’s Nick Ferenchak, who leads the only US research center focused specifically on pedestrians and cyclists.
TL;DR: Fast urban roads are a huge factor, and car bloat amplifies risk.
Look Both Ways now has a website!
You can access every episode (for free), search by transportation topic, and get in touch with me and Wes.
Check it out: www.lookbothwayspodcast.com
Me, in Bloomberg:
"To Trump and his congressional allies, DC’s streets are not the lifeblood of a metropolis that’s home to more people than the states of Wyoming or Vermont. They’re either an event staging ground, or a collection of roadways to be traversed, by car, as quickly as possible."
Me, in Bloomberg:
Manhattan's congestion pricing program has been a smashing success. Other US cities have noticed.
Could Chicago go next?
Me in Bloomberg:
As autonomous vehicles scale, they're likely to cause crippling congestion. Two reasons:
1) Their users will take more and longer car trips
2) They often drive around empty
Result: More vehicles on the road, more pollution, and more traffic
Me, in Fast Company:
Finding parking can take a lot longer than Google Maps and Apple Maps suggest.
For instance, navigation apps ignore time drivers spend looking for a spot and then walking from it to their destination.
Result: Trips that are stressful — and travel planning that’s biased toward cars.
Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries.
If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes.
It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn.
Me, in Bloomberg
How safe are autonomous vehicles, really?
In Bloomberg, I got into the weeds with David Kidd of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.
His conclusion: “It’s still too early to say with any kind of confidence that they are safer than human drivers overall.”
Hey guys, I’m writing a book!
THE PRICE OF TRAFFIC will tell the story of congestion pricing, one of the best – and most controversial—policy ideas of the last half century. It will be published with MIT Press in partnership with Penguin Random House.
Know a great story about congestion pricing that needs to be told? An illuminating study that deserves more attention? A person with an inside angle on what went down in Singapore, London, Milan or NYC? Message me!
The research is clear: Cities have many reliable ways to curtail speeding.
Lower the speed limit. Deploy traffic cameras. Insert speed humps. Install road diets.
They all work – and most residents support them.
But implementation often feels like pulling teeth. In Bloomberg, I explored why.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/how-cities-can-win-the-war-on-speeding-drivers
