Articles by Dan Albert

Oct 16, 2023

Electric Slide

Auto workers for electric cars

Jul 03, 2023

Welcome Traffic Crusaders

Transforming Marblehead Mobility

Wel­come to the cam­paign to trans­form mobil­i­ty in Marblehead.

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Jan 23, 2023

Extreme Acceleration Is the New Traffic Safety Frontier

The elec­tric vehi­cle rev­o­lu­tion has also helped deliv­er a new gold­en age of auto­mo­tive horse­pow­er — and safe­ty reg­u­la­tors aren’t ready for it.

May 01, 2022

Universal Basic Automobility

Give Poor People Cars, Not Bus Passes

Trans­porta­tion Sec­re­tary Pete asked what real devel­op­ment looks like. Is it where every low-income per­son has a car? Or is it wher­ev­er the high-income per­son would pre­fer to take the sub­way or the bus?” Buttigieg con­sid­ers the answer self-evi­dent. As for the sin­gle moth­er of three who has been rid­ing bus­es all her min­i­mum-wage work­ing life, she, too, knows the obvi­ous answer: give me a car.

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Apr 18, 2022

None of this is normal

A call to rethink our streets

Jim Galante told the Globe that his son would be alive if the cause­way had a rail­ing or a high­er wall on the har­bor side.”

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