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Mar 9, 2018, 10:05 am By Blake AuedDems Unveil Their Own $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan (ABC, WaPo) As Congress Debates Gas Tax Hike…What Explains the Gender Gap in Walking?
Mar 8, 2018, 1:37 pm By Angie Schmitt
A recent Stanford study examined walking rates around the globe, finding that in a diverse range of…Bike to the Future: Portland Uses Bikes to Rethink 70 Years of Strip Malls
Mar 8, 2018, 10:01 am By Michael Andersen, PlacesForBikes
PlacesForBikes is a PeopleForBikes program to help U.S. communities build better biking, faster. You…Today’s Headlines
Mar 8, 2018, 9:12 am By Blake Aued
New Mayor David Briley Is Now Nashville’s Transit Champion (Tennessean) Who’s to Blame for the…Washington State Dems Poised to Steal From Transit and Education to Appease Car Owners
Mar 7, 2018, 2:14 pm By Angie Schmitt
Here’s a story that really speaks to the political clout of motorists. Democrats in the state of…The Trump DOT Is Killing the TIGER Program
Mar 7, 2018, 11:34 am By Angie Schmitt
When the Obama administration launched the TIGER grant program in the 2009 stimulus package, it was…Today’s Headlines
Mar 7, 2018, 9:26 am By Blake AuedWill Megan Barry’s Resignation Affect Nashville Transit Vote? (WSMV) Lawmakers Screwed Up the…Philly Rolls Out Bike Lanes at a Snail’s Pace, and Mayor Jim Kenney May Slow Down Progress Even More
Mar 6, 2018, 1:38 pm By Angie Schmitt
Since 2007, New York City has built 98 miles of protected bike lanes. In the same time frame,…Today’s Headlines
Mar 6, 2018, 9:03 am By Blake AuedUber Execs Ridicule MIT Study, But Its Drivers Are Still Underpaid (Fortune) Slate: The Hyperloop Is…America’s Pedestrian Safety Crisis Isn’t Getting Any Better
4:10pm By Angie Schmitt
America isn’t making progress on pedestrian safety, with people on foot accounting for a steadily…Snapping Together a Better Bus Stop
11:56am By Angie Schmitt
Bus bulbs and their cousin, the bus island, speed up transit service by positioning the boarding…Today’s Headlines
9:09am By Blake AuedCities, States, and Feds Used Infrastructure to Enforce Redlining (Guardian) DOT Mulls How to…A Brief History of How American Transportation Engineers Resisted Bike Lanes
Mar 2, 2018, 2:35 pm By Angie Schmitt
Try to picture American cities if they had started building world-class bike infrastructure en masse…Today’s Headlines
Mar 2, 2018, 11:12 am By Blake AuedIndiana Bill Legalizing Light Rail Inches Closer to Passage (WLFI) Traffic Deaths on the Rise in…Talking Headways Podcast: More Than Just a Transit Line
Mar 1, 2018, 2:38 pm By Jeff WoodThis week we’re joined by Jonathan Sage Martinson, former director of the Central Corridor Funders…A New Neighborhood Will Replace a Sunken Rochester Highway
Mar 1, 2018, 11:47 am By Angie Schmitt
Rochester’s Inner Loop freeway is like a moat surrounding downtown, a sunken highway severing…Today’s Headlines
Mar 1, 2018, 9:18 am By Blake Aued28 Years After Rejecting MARTA, Gwinnett County Could Vote on Transit Again (AJC) VP Hired to Fix…Are American Cities Making Progress on Traffic Safety?
Feb 28, 2018, 3:32 pm By Angie Schmitt
Back in December we posted a chart of annual changes in traffic fatalities in six American cities…Oregon May Expand Its Petty Bicycle Tax to Children’s Bikes
Feb 28, 2018, 12:54 pm By Angie Schmitt
Oregon taxes bikes. And not just a normal sales tax. We’re talking about a special excise tax that…Boston’s Best Bet for Better Transit: Modernizing Commuter Rail
Feb 27, 2018, 3:57 pm By Angie Schmitt
Boston commuter rail has the pieces for an expansive modern system. What it needs isn’t a big…
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