内容摘要：Members of the Durua tribe, part of India’s Indigenous Adivasis communities, perform traditional dances during the Chaitra Parab festival, a month long harvest celebration in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Members of the Durua tribe, part of India’s Indigenous Adivasis communities, perform traditional dances during the Chaitra Parab festival, a month long harvest celebration in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

“The road diet didn’t cause a level of congestion that slowed them down,” she said.A man crosses 31st Street in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A man crosses 31st Street in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Even before Trump, skepticism was growing in some red states.San Antonio spent years planning to repurpose a formerly state-owned portion of its Broadway Street by removing vehicle lanes and improving a stretch for bikes and pedestrians. But Texas abruptly reclaimed the road in 2022 and nixed the project as GOP Gov. Greg Abbott ran for reelection and called for an end to anti-car policies.

“They basically used Broadway as a political football,” said Bryan Martin, owner of Bronko Bikes, an electric bike repair shop.Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill last year calling for a 180-day review period and several other steps before a local government can eliminate a lane. He said it would prevent activists from intentionally clogging roads to slow vehicles.

Not all the pushback has come from Republican-led states. During the pandemic, Culver City, California, implemented a road diet to prioritize walking, biking and transit. But when cars returned and traffic backed up for miles, the city reversed the plan.

Some residents sued in Vancouver, Washington, saying the city should have put its road diets up for a public vote.A crew with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority installs power poles for a home, at top right, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

A crew with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority installs power poles for a home, at top right, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Many Navajo families still live without electricity, a product of historic neglect and the struggle to get services on the vast Native American reservation in the southwestern United States. Some rely on solar panels or generators, while others have no electricity whatsoever. (AP Video: Joshua A. Bickel)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change.“We are a part of America that a lot of the time feels kind of left out,” said Vircynthia Charley, district manager at the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, a non-for-profit utility that provides electric, water, wastewater, natural gas and solar energy services.