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Steven Higashide

Steven Higashide is clean transportation program director for the Union of Concerned Scientists and the author of Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit.

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January 29, 2026

Steven Higashide

How Trump Weaponized the Department of Transportation

The policies that govern how we get from place to place are usually immune to partisanship. This administration is using them to advance Trump’s authoritarian agenda.

September 25, 2020

Steven Higashide

Uber and Lyft Are Charging Through Washington’s Revolving Door

The ride-share firms push regressive labor and transportation policies—and they’re stocked with Obama alumni. Would Biden welcome or blacklist them?

Steven Higashide

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