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Small Businesses Urge DC Metro to Expand Service and Lower Fares (Post) Seattle Council Members Skeptical of New Streetcar (KIRO) Bikelash Hits Twin Cities as Bike Lanes Spread (Star Tribune) Utah Legislators Can’t Agree on Transit Reforms (Deseret News) Next City Dives Into U.S.’s Only Private High-Speed Rail: Florida’s Brightline Study: Self-Driving Cars Will Lead […]

Study Says Larry Hogan’s Toll Lanes Won’t Make Maryland Freeways Less Congested (WaPo) Costs Could Rise for Minneapolis’ Southwest Light Rail Line (Star Tribune) With Google’s Lyft Investment, Ride-Hailing Is a Battle of Billionaires (Economic Times) Phoenix Installs Flex Posts to Keep Drivers Out of Bike Lanes (ABC 15) Portland Puts an Interactive Bike Map […]

Long Resistant, Gwinnett County, GA, Voters Now Support Sales Tax for Transit (AJC) Baltimore Will Remake Street to Prioritize Bikes and Transit (Sun) Glendale, AZ, Council Nixes Downtown Light-Rail Study (KJZZ) Hawaii State Senator Opposes Complete Street, Wants “More Lanes and More Roads” (News Now) Seattle Bike-Shares Brace Themselves, Winter Is Coming (The Stranger) Columbus’s […]

Small Changes Led to Big Spike in Seattle Transit Ridership (The Atlantic) Nashville Mayor Proposes Ambitious $5 Billion Transit Plan (Tennessean) Latest Iteration of I-66 Still Includes Bike Path Right Next to D.C. Freeway (WTOP) Detroit Bike-Share Hits 100,000 Rides; Plans Spring Expansion (Freep; Curbed) Regional Bike-Share Will Serve 16 Boston-Area Towns (Wicked Local Concord) […]

Seattle Mayoral Candidates Weigh In on Transit Policy (Seattle Times) New Dallas Complete Streets Policy Already Having an Impact (Towers) That Weird Minneapolis Bike Lane Protest Turned Out 20 People (City Pages) Downtown El Paso Streetcar Construction Is Months Ahead of Schedule (El Paso Times) Cincinnati Streetcar Ridership Doubles During Blink Festival (Enquirer) Valley Metro […]

Federal Data May Dramatically Undercount Distracted Driving as a Cause of Traffic Deaths (Bloomberg) Minneapolis Tests Buses in Preparation for C-Line BRT (Star Tribune) Transit Agencies Need to Do a Better Job of Promoting Themselves (Mobility Lab) Study Finds Drivers Less Likely to Stop for Black Male Pedestrians at Marked Crosswalks (Next City) “Smart Crosswalks” […]