More than 150 organizations — including dozens of local chambers of commerce and elected officials — joined with thousands of you in opposing USDOT’s flawed proposal for measuring traffic congestion and urging them to rethink their approach.

As we’ve shared repeatedly this summer, USDOT’s proposed requirements would induce sprawl, harm the economic potential of our main streets by treating them like highways, punish cities investing in public transportation, completely ignore people walking, biking, carpooling or telecommuting, and push local communities of all sizes to waste billions of dollars in vain attempts to build their way out of congestion.

In addition to your huge stack of letters (the picture shows all the paper we would have used if we hadn't submitted digitally) an impressive and diverse coalition of business groups, local elected leaders and national and local organizations also proposed concrete ways for USDOT to fix the rule. We’ll keep you updated on the final rule that emerges from USDOT — we’re hopeful that they will make critical fixes to this proposal.

Last call to apply for our smart cities collaborative with Sidewalk Labs

The application process is closing at the end of today (8/31) for our national, multi-city collaborative with Sidewalk Labs to help cities use technology to address pressing transportation challenges. If you work for a city interested in applying, get your application in quickly and send any questions to smartcities@t4america.org.

Apply today.