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A massive highway boondoggle is back in Wisconsin. Plus other news.

A pilot program in Bellevue, Wash. is using anonymized video and big data to stop crashes before they happen.

The candidate's plan has...just about everything in it. But which programs will actually get the most federal money?

If employers give the workers what they want, we can end three pandemics: COVID-19, climate change, and traffic violence.

At home, it's "Infrastructure Week," which means the candidates will outdo each other to build highways. Meanwhile, London is converting nearly 2,000 parking spaces for cars into bike corrals. Plus all the other news.

In the fiscal year just ended, the NYPD bought fewer new vehicles — and the fewest SUVs by percentage since the agency started shifting to the bigger, bulkier, more intimidating and more dangerous assault cars during the 2010s.

A state DOT program will expand city leaders' toolboxes for delivering residents changes they actually want.

Oddly enough, 2020 could be a breakthrough year for high-speed rail. Plus all the other news.

Times opinion writer Farhad Manjoo did more than just illustrate a vision for a car-free city that many of us have been championing, he did so in a way that clearly put the topic on the map for readers of the Gray Lady.

As school re-openings loom, the school bus industry is organizing support for the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services Act, a $10-billion Senate bill that would provide relief to transportation providers — including school-bus operators…

"One of the goals was to examine the financial feasibility," a DOT spokesperson told Streetsblog. "Unfortunately, we concluded it was not feasible."

Usually, we just give you the biggest stories from the U.S. but today, we've got coverage from Europe, too!

Street vendors have always been an important part of our street landscape — even when we've criminalized them.

So why does Josh Stephens hate the Olympics?

The U.S. spends too much money on roads, and a stimulus package should include more for transit. Click here for that story and more.

These instances of road repurposing and placemaking are born from pain and anger, and yet they have brought communities together and created beauty.

Americans shouldn't have to choose between building endless new highway miles and endlessly fixing the roads that destroy our places — because there are a lot of highways that deserve to be decommissioned.

Subsidizing e-bikes is a no-brainer in the best of times — and in a pandemic, it could be a life-saver.

People still don't feel safe on transit — but why depends on where they live. Click here for that story and more.

We must slow down if we want to vaccinate against that other deadly disease called traffic violence