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More From the NTSB Investigation of Fatal Uber Self-Driving Car Crash (NPR, PBS) Wired Doesn’t Think California Should Regulate Self-Driving Vehicles Before Cars, Streets Were Designed for Everyone and Everything (ATL Urbanist) Tampa Was Slow to Fix Street Where Driver Killed Mom and Child in Crosswalk (Times) Minnesota Transit Falls Behind Peers (Star Tribune) Buffalo, Other Upstate […]

Poll: Americans Want Feds to Spend More on Infrastructure (The Hill, USA Today) Transport Review: Autonomous Vehicles Will Increase Sprawl and Car Dependence How Cities Are Regulating Dockless Bike-Share and Scooter Fleets (Vice) Michigan GOP Wants to Kneecap Detroit Regional Transit Proposal (WDET) West Palm Beach Approves Less Car-Centric Transpo Plan (Palm Beach Post) Bike Walk […]

Seattle Could Add More Bike Lanes If It Didn’t Rebuild Whole Streets for Each Project (Seattle Times) Detroit Isn’t Maintaining Its 260 Miles of New Bike Lanes (Project D) Construction Starts on Center City Protected Bike Lane in Philly (Philly Mag) Atlanta Shifting Away From “All Cars, All the Time” (Curbed) Latest Inspection Finds More […]

Roads Designed for Cars Are a Public Health Crisis (Governing) On Car-Centric Streets, Pedestrians Get Blamed for Their Own Deaths (Austin Monitor) Maryland Dems Promise to Outdo Hogan on Transit (WaPo) Here’s Where San Antonio Drivers Kill the Most Pedestrians (Rivard Report) Streetcar Proposed on Abandoned Winston-Salem Rail Line (Spectrum News) Bike Score Names Minneapolis […]

U.S. Transit Systems Have a Combined $90 Billion Repair Backlog (Curbed) Non-Motorized Transportation Catches On in Motor City (Detroit Free Press) Mourners Say Philadelphia’s Done Nothing to Protect Cyclists (WHYY) DC Residents Create Protected Bike Lane With Their Bodies (WAMU) Routing Light Rail Through Atlanta Streetcar Will Choke System (Atlanta Mag) Housing Austin’s Homeless Could […]

Metro DC Biz Leaders Want Toll Hikes and More Transit Funding (WTOP) Brightline Could Transform Transit in Car-Happy South Florida (Fast Company) Minnesota Governor: GOP Has Declared War on Transit (Minneapolis Post) Pittsburgh Considers More Bike Lanes, Lower Speed Limits (WXPI) St. Petersburg Bike-Share Users Rode 90,000 Miles Last Year (Tampa Bay Times) Pedestrian Deaths […]