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House To Vote Next Week On Bipartisan Bill To Clear Way For Autonomous Vehicle Companies (Reuters) This Republican Congressman Is Begging His Reluctant Mayor To Ask For Transit Funds (Miami Herald) Governing Examines How Better Bus Service Became “The Hottest Trend In Transit” Billionaire Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate J.B. Pritzker Loves Riding CTA Buses (Chicago Tribune) […]

Hurricane Harvey Recovery: Houston Metro Resumes Service Today On Some Key Bus Routes (Chronicle) In Wake of Hurricane Harvey, Gas Prices Have Risen 7 Cents Nationwide In Past Week (CBS, Vox) Did Houston’s Sprawling Land Use Exacerbate Flooding? It’s Complicated (Chronicle, Strong Towns) White House Briefs State, Local Officials On What Infrastructure Plan Could Eventually […]

Weeks Before Harvey, Trump Gutted Obama-Era Rule Restricting Federal Building in Floodplains (Slate) Blame Sprawl, Not Lack of Zoning, for Worsening Harvey’s Floods in Houston (NY Mag) Why Is Bus Ridership Falling? It’s About Quality, Not Just Quantity, of Service (Human Transit) Atlanta Magazine Examines Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for Our Driverless Future What Will Happen […]

Thanks, Millennials: Seattle’s Car Ownership and Car Commuting Rates Declining (Seattle Times) Not So Fast: Suburbs Are Growing Because Of — You Guessed It — Millennials (Bloomberg View) Trump Rolls Back Obama Rule Allowing Transportation Local Hiring Preference (LA Times, Next City) Uber Says It Will No Longer Track iPhone Users After Their Trip Has […]

Meet Uber’s New CEO: Expedia Chief Dara Khosrowshahi (Recode) Emails Show White House Claimed Bike-Share Station Posed “Security Concern” Before Removal (WaPo) As Special Session Begins, Honolulu, Legislature Clash Over How to Fix Rail Funding Gap (Star-Advertiser) Lawsuit: Smaller Property Owners Didn’t Get Vote In Sacramento Streetcar Tax (Bee, CBS Sacramento) County Vision Zero Action Plan: […]

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure, and the Public Can’t Measure DC-Area Ride-Hail (WAMU) Baton Rouge Streetcar Between Downtown and LSU on Life Support, Not Officially Dead (Advocate) Town Selectmen Are Why the Northeast Corridor Can’t Have Faster Trains (Darien Times) Under an Awful Headline, Bridge Michigan Examines Equity and Cycling in the Motor […]