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Kansas City Voters Will Decide Saturday Whether to Expand Streetcar (Star) Curbed Takes a Deep Dive Into the Atlanta BeltLine’s Affordability Issues Utah Will Spend $1 Billion on 19-Mile, Sprawl-Creating Freeway (Salt Lake Tribune) Is Amazon Eyeing Philly’s Future Amtrak Station Site for Second HQ? (Curbed) Bike-Share Succeeds at Penn State (PSU News) But Not […]

Senator: Trump Budget Would Cut $145 Billion From Transit (Crain’s) Dems Release Vague Infrastructure Plan in Absence of Trump’s (The Hill) Judge Will Soon Decide Fate of Minneapolis’ Southwest Light-Rail Line (Star-Tribune) Public Blowback Leads Seattle Planners to Cave on Tolls (KIRO) Philadelphia Needs More Sidewalk Space (CBS Philly) Bike-Share Service Sets Up Nine Stations […]

Facing Lawsuit, Wisconsin DOT Asks Feds to Rescind Approval for Highway Expansion (Gazette) Crews Report Good Progress on Bellevue, WA, Light Rail Tunnel (KOMO) Kansas City Road Diet Restriping Took So Long It’s Already Outdated (Star) Dockless Bike-Share Comes to Silver Springs; Other D.C. Suburbs Are Next (Post) $200 Million Bond Will Make Raleigh Safer […]

New Tampa Bridge Will Include Bike Path, Space for Light Rail (Times; WFLA) How Montgomery County, MD, Can Revamp Its Buses to Reduce Gridlock (Mobility Lab) FTA Awards Puerto Rico $8.4 Million to Repair Hurricane-Damaged Transit (Progressive Railroading) Downtown Fargo Has a New Parking Deck—and That’s a Good Thing (Strong Towns) Lenox, MA, Group Wants […]

Majority of Americans Agree That Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes Worse (WaPo) DC Isn’t Keeping Up With Demand for Bike Infrastructure (NYT) What Eight Years of Chris Christie Hath Wrought for NJ Transit Riders (Record) People in Detroit Just Want More Buses, Not Expensive Streetcars (City Lab) Pittsburgh BRT Plan May Result in Service Cuts […]

Congress Wants to Bigfoot Cities and States With New Industry-Friendly Autonomous Car Rules (Slate) Meanwhile, in Taiwan: Autonomous Bus Test Carrying Passengers on University Campus (NYT) Heavy Rail Doesn’t Grab “Future of Transportation” Headlines, But It Isn’t Going Anywhere (WaPo) Cities Asking If Their Transit Is Good Enough for Amazon: Be Wary of Bad Transit […]