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Metro Board Chair Holds Purple Line Hostage; Under Pressure to Resign (WTOP) The Fight for Better Transit Is a Fight for Racial Equality (City Lab) St. Paul Streetcar Still Six Years Away From Construction (Twin Cities Business) Lack of Bike Lanes Forces San Diego Cyclists Onto Sidewalks (Union-Tribune) Baltimore Relaunched Its Troubled Bike-Share Program on […]

Technology Can Lead to Safer Driving Speeds and Prevent Traffic Deaths (Vice) Forget the $1 Trillion — Trump’s Budget Would Make Infrastructure Worse (RCP) D.C. Bike-Share Lobbyists Work Both Sides of the Aisle (Next City) After Bike-Share Suspension, 50 Bikes Back on the Street in Baltimore (Sun) Kansas City Has a Ton of New Bike […]

Bike Fatalities Rising Nationwide; GHWA Recommends More Bike Lanes (WaPo) Ride-Hailing Apps Add Car Trips, Slow Traffic in Major Cities (Curbed) Transit Ridership Growing in Rural Areas (City Lab) TriMet Attributes Decline in Portland Bus Ridership to Gentrification (Tribune) Phoenix Installs Its First Protected Bike Lanes (DPJ) Sound Transit CEO: Feds Should Reward Seattle Tax […]

Traffic Deaths Increasing Faster Than Any Time in 50 Years (The Hill) Portland Traffic Fatalities So Far This Year Have Already Exceeded 2016 (KOIN) Work on Boston’s South Bay Harbor Trail Will Restart This Spring (Globe) Seattle Mayoral Candidates Want to Expedite Light Rail Expansion (My Ballard; Times) San Antonio Mayor: Traffic Will “Strangle” the […]

Nine Months In, Trump Infrastructure Plan Still MIA (NPR) Twin Cities Aim to Take 50,000 Cars Off the Road Within 10 Years (Next City) Larry Hogan’s $9 Billion Freeway Plan Won’t Help Baltimore Commuters (Next City) Purple Line Opponents Want Chevy Chase to Bankroll Lawsuit (Bethesda Mag) Federal Cuts Have Reached a “Crisis” for Madison, […]

Surprisingly, Distracted Driving Isn’t to Blame for Spike in Road Deaths (The Verge) Kansas City Voters Elect Pro-Streetcar Slate (Star) Philly Tries to Avoid Bikelash by Engaging Neighborhoods on Vision Zero (Next City) Detroit Invests in Sidewalks and Bike Lanes to Help Commercial Corridors (MLive) Baltimore Sun: City Needs Better Bike Infrastructure Whether Amazon Comes […]