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It's the return of our beloved contest — inspired by the NCAA's March Madness bracket!

Oddly, there was a lot of news about parking over the weekend. Plus all the other stories.

Manhattan district attorney hopeful Tali Farhadian Weinstein looks to driver-accountability law, technology to curtail reckless drivers.

It's funny how many people try to make environmentalism out to be an effete elitist cause when the benefits are disportionately conferred to groups that have been traditionally oppressed. Plus all the other news.

SFMTA and OakDOT need to up their game when it comes to bike lane markings and go with a more durable solution

Fatal or serious injury crashes increased by 1 percent near speed cameras between 2012-13 and 2017-18, compared to a 19 percent increase citywide.

Total annual mileage dropped about 13 percent during the pandemic, meaning that the one-year increase in the death rate was the highest since 1924. 

While local officials debate the best ways to improve their respective transit systems, the truth is that most of them lack a real-world perception of their own local transit systems.

A podcast on why it's important to sometimes get lost.

The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.

The Trump administration failed to investigate a whistleblower report on US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao. Plus all the other news.

Speakers discussed the relationship between safe conditions for pedestrians and good transit access with food security and nutrition.

The next infrastructure package might bring some of sustainable transportation advocates' most long-sought bills back to life — and establish new pots of money for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more. 

Republicans and Democrats play let's make a deal over infrastructure. Plus all the other news to start your day.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1,874 Chicago area transit workers tested positive for the disease, at least 14 had to be hospitalized and at least 14 passed away.

If a snowy winter is guaranteed year after year, not budgeting for proper winter maintenance for all modes of transportation, then using winter as an excuse for not being able to implement high quality bicycle infrastructure is like refusing to buy apples and…

The freeways that destroyed and divided Black communities when they were built in the 1960s are starting to crumble, fueling activists who want to have them removed. (CNN) Skepticism in the Biden administration and a lack of ballot access outside California…

If it looks like a duck ... it's probably a better-designed truck!

One of America's largest scooter-share companies is going back to its roots as a bike company — and taking a step into the future by going electric. Could 2021 be the year of the e-bike?

It's a very transit-heavy news digest today — but don't worry, there's also lots of talk about changing the gas tax!