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The company behind Florida’s Brightline, now known as Virgin Trains USA after an investment by Richard Branson, plans to start privately owned passenger rail service between Atlanta and Charlotte, Dallas and Houston, and Los Angeles and San Diego, in addition to already planned L.A-Las Vegas and Tampa-Orlando routes. (Miami Herald) The editor and publisher of […]

More than half of jobs created in Chicago are within walking distance of a transit stop, and other cities with good transit are seeing businesses relocate near transit, too, as they seek to cater to carless workers. (NPR) Residents of northwestern Washington, D.C., are worried about pedestrian safety. They want the city to remove a […]

HAs traffic deaths approach 40,000 for the third straight year, a YouGov poll found that a majority of Americans think driving while texting is bad. A lesser number also think walking while texting is a problem, but research shows that pedestrians are rarely distracted when they’re hit by drivers. (Smart Cities Dive) The urban planner […]

With a federal deadline looming, Duke University is considering backing out of plans for light rail between Durham and Orange, N.C. The project can’t move forward without Duke-owned land. (News & Observer) In the 1960s and ’70s — with gas prices high and cities decaying and choked with smog — the federal government invested in […]

Like many cities, Charleston, S.C., swapped out its trolleys for buses 80 years ago, which proved to be a mistake. Recent decades have seen several failed efforts to bring passenger rail back to the now-traffic-choked city. (Post and Courier) An Atlanta program that promised to fix hundreds of roads, bridges and sidewalks is $410 million […]

Officially, StreetsblogUSA’s office is closed to mark our national feast day, but here are a couple of headlines just to get you going. Enjoy the holiday (and stay out of cars!): Thanksgiving is a massive travel day, with 54 million people in motion (89 percent of them in cars). Check out the live flight radar […]