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In 2021 the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required improved rear underride guard performance, but the resulting NHTSA regulation is weaker than most industry standards and notably lacks standards for single-unit trucks, such as dump trucks. In response, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have introduced the STOP Underrides Act (S. 605), which would require rear, side, and front underride guards on all commercial no vehicles, including single-unit trucks.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
Maybe we prefer to think in ideals, and the gritty reality of everything constantly decaying and breaking offends our sense of the world.
The MAINTENANCE RACE - Works in Progress
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The Performing Arts Garage, for example, went from being 25 percent full at $2.50 an hour to being 85 percent full at $1 an hour. Garage revenues rose by 10 percent. Double-parking dropped by 22 percent in pilot areas. Because drivers found parking faster, the total amount of driving in the pilot areas fell by 30 percent—2,500 miles a day of searching for spots and weaving around double-parked cars, vanquished by right-priced parking meters.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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