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To Stave Off Transit Cuts, Seattle Plans to Go It Alone
Just a couple of weeks ago, voters in Seattle and its surrounding counties rejected a funding measure to prevent dramatic cuts to local transit service.
May 14, 2014
The Plan to Transform Houston Transit Without Spending a Dollar More
Transit in Houston could be getting a dramatic makeover, covering a much greater area and significantly boosting ridership -- and running it won't cost any more than running the current system.
May 12, 2014
San Diego Claims Space for Biking With Its First Road Diet
San Diego certainly has the right kind of climate to be a great biking city. But its streets -- wide, fast, scary -- have been holding it back.
May 9, 2014
How Silver Spring, Maryland, Outgrew Its Parking Lots
In healthy urban areas, people always complain that there's not enough parking. And they still do that in Silver Spring, Maryland, says Dan Reed at Greater Greater Washington.
May 7, 2014
New Federal Bill Would Help Orient Communities Toward Transit
The federal government has a long history of supporting transit, but it's never played much of a role in promoting the kind of development that helps make those investments successful.
May 5, 2014
Sacramento Teen Driver Runs Over Boy on Bike for Throwing Water Bottle
In a particularly heinous road rage incident last weekend, a 17-year-old girl in Sacramento intentionally rammed her car into a 13-year-old boy on a bike, hospitalizing him. What made this young woman fly into a murderous rage? Richard Masoner at Cyclelicious excerpted this report from the San Francisco Chronicle:
May 2, 2014
Omaha Developer Sells “Walkable Main Street” of Parking Lots
As the downside of sprawling development becomes better understood, some developers are getting better at greenwashing sprawl.
May 1, 2014
Drunk Driver Plows Into Marathon for Alcohol Abuse Awareness
Further evidence that seemingly no place is safe from errant drivers in the United States...
April 29, 2014
Driver Who Killed Cyclist Sues the Dead Teen’s Parents
In a case the Ottawa Citizen called "astonishing evidence of the raw appeal of... victimhood," a woman who struck and killed a teenage boy riding his bike outside of Toronto is suing the boy's family for $1.35 million.
April 28, 2014
Anthony Foxx: If States Want to Toll Freeways, U.S. DOT Is Open to That
Yonah Freemark at the Metropolitan Planning Council's Connector blog got to sit down recently with U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. Formerly the mayor of Charlotte, Foxx has been at the helm of U.S. DOT for nearly a year now, but we're still getting to know him.
April 25, 2014