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Professional Anti-Transit Troll Randal O’Toole At It Again (USA Today) New Uber CEO Tries to Repair Company’s Image (WaPo) Startup Bird Wants to Make It Legal to Ride E-Scooters on the Sidewalk (Quartz) Atlantans Bicker Over Ditching Suicide Lanes on DeKalb Avenue (Saporta Report) Riding a Bike in Downtown St. Louis — Fun But Dangerous […]

Nashville Scene Profiles the Groups For and Against the Transit Referendum The Tools Planners Use to Exclude People From Public Spaces (Urban Omnibus) Everything You Need to Know About Portland’s Southwest Corridor Plan (Metro) Fierce Opposition to Safer Streets Remains in Philadelphia (Plan Philly) Electric Scooter Clutter Is the New Bike Clutter (WaPo) E-Scooter Companies Won’t […]

Milwaukee Bus Cuts Could Cost People Their Jobs (WUWM) Donald Shoup Releases Follow-Up to ‘High Cost of Free Parking’ (UCLA) Pedestrians Are Not Responsible for Drivers Breaking the Law (Mobility Lab) Nashville Public Radio Breaks Down Funding for Transit Expansion Memphis Trolleys Will Roll Out Again Next Week (Business Journal) Lexington (Herald Leader) and South […]

Low-Income Millennials Who Can’t Move to Cities Are Forced to Drive More (SSTI) Portland Arterial Roads Still Deadly for Cyclists and Pedestrians (Mercury) San Antonio Looks to Fill 1,900-Mile Sidewalk Backlog (Rivard Report) Houston Will Spend $10M on 50 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes (Houston Chronicle) 74,000 People Attend “Atlanta Streets Alive” to Reinvent DeKalb […]

What Happens If the Nashville Transit Referendum Fails? (WPLN) Atlanta Transit Advocates Say There Are Better Uses for Funds Than Midtown BRT (WABE) San Antonio Express-News Endorses ConnectSA Transit Plan Massachusetts Transit Systems Ask for More State Aid (Boston Globe) D.C. Metro Develops New Track Test That Could Prevent Derailments (WTOP) Uber Adds Background Checks […]

As Seattle Builds More Transit, Demand for Transit Increases (USA Today) Asheville Council Wants to Raise Parking Fees to Fund Transit (Citizen-Times) Gwinnett Reverses Course, Includes Heavy Rail in Transit Plan (AJC) Judge Rules That Federal Labor Protections Don’t Apply to Uber Drivers (CNBC) Car Dealerships Will Vanish in 20 Years, Auto Exec Predicts (Automotive […]