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Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Sep 26, 2016 | No Comments

How Charlotte Highways Contribute to Racial Injustice (ThinkProgress)
Miami Launches Study on Bus Rapid Transit (Miami Herald)
Virginia Beach Officials Are Split on Tide Light Rail (Southside Daily)
West Virginia University PRT System Showing Its Age (Daily Athenaeum)
Is Gainesville Really the Most Bike-Friendly City in Florida? (IFA)
Live Oak, FL Wants an Amtrak Stop (WUFT)
Tallahassee Doesn’t Get Its Fair Share of Road-Widening Money (Democrat)
Bike-Share Coming to Cocoa Beach (Florida Today)
Bluffton Today Urges Officials to Look at Deadly Jasper County, SC Intersection
Louisiana Transpo Panel Visits Acadiana (The Advocate)
El Dorado, AR Gets Grant to Extend Trail (News-Times)

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Road Improvements? No, Road Impairments

By Jesse Bailey | Sep 23, 2016 | No Comments

Mixing high speed traffic and people on foot or bikes is a recipe for disaster. The findings of a Palm Beach MPO study bear this out, showing the extraordinarily dangerous nature of the county’s arterial road network. Below is a … Continue reading →

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Sep 23, 2016 | No Comments

Virginia Beach Flood Gets People Out of Their Cars (WTKR)
Lack of Transit Means Gwinnett County, GA Is Losing Out on Jobs (Saporta Report)
Louisville Boy Falls From Dilapidated Pedestrian Bridge, Nearly Lands on Highway (WHAS)
Another Steamboat for Natchez, MS? (The Advocate)
Sandy Springs Residents Already Pissed About New Braves Stadium Traffic (AJC)
Bike-Share Program Is Rolling in Macon, GA (The Telegraph)
“Luxury” Bus Company Starts Service to 14 Florida Cities (Miami Community Newspapers)
Skateboarders Adopted a “Desolate” Concrete Lot and Atlanta Can’t Have That (Curbed)

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The Threat of Racial Profiling in Traffic Enforcement

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 22, 2016 | No Comments

The blue lines are streets where fatal traffic crashes occur in San Jose. There’s a lot of overlap with the areas in yellow, areas with large numbers of immigrants, low-income residents, and people of color. Map via Cyclelicious Can urban police forces with histories of racial profiling and brutality be entrusted to carry out traffic enforcement as part [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Sep 22, 2016 | No Comments

Gasoline Pipeline Restarted After Days of Shortages in the Southeast (Fortune)
Ambitious Nashville Transit Plan Clears Key Hurdle (Tennessean)
Talk of Atlanta-Macon Commuter Rail Resurfaces (WMAZ)
Seniors Drive Transit Growth in North Carolina (WCGS)
Georgia DOT Rejects Median Cut for Oconee County Sprawl (Oconee Enterprise)
Public Meetings Set on North Fulton Transpo Plan (AJC)
Gainesville Sun Says City’s Awful Bus Stops Should Be ADA Compliant
Cycling Starting to Catch On in Mobile, AL (Lagniappe)
Zipcar Expands Into Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Eyes Birmingham Next (AL.com)
Should Louisiana Double Its Fuel Tax? (Baton Rouge Business Report)
CityLab Thinks Self-Driving Cars Can Save Black People From Police

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Finally Some Relief for Memphis Bus Riders

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 21, 2016 | No Comments

The shameful state of Memphis’s bus system is one of the more outrageous stories in American transit. Buses in Memphis are in such bad shape, they’ve been known to catch fire. But help is on the way. Photo via Memphis Bus Riders Union When we checked in with the advocates at the Memphis Bus Riders Union in March, they told us the local transit [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Sep 21, 2016 | No Comments

Broken Gas Pipeline Expected to Reopen Wednesday (Tuscaloosa News)
Gas Shortages Lead to Rising Prices in Virginia (NBC 29)
Kentucky Waives Regulations on Truckers Hauling Gas (WTVQ)
Arkansas Says Shared-Use Path Is Recreational, Forces Fayetteville to Foot the Bill (Democrat Gazette)
Jefferson Parish Votes on Ride-Share Regulations Today (WGNO)
Plan to Widen I-10 in Baton Rouge Moves Forward (The Advocate)
Alabama DOT Is Widening Highway 150 (Birmingham Business Journal)
Athens, GA Commissioners Talk Transpo Taxes and Bike Infrastructure (Flagpole)
A SunRail Train Might Have Run Over Someone (Orlando Sentinel)
Marin County Officials Want All Aboard Florida to Change Route (Fort Pierce Tribune)
Charleston Asks SC DOT Whether It’s OK to Build a Bike Lane (Live 5)
North Carolina Laws on Drivers Passing Cyclists Take Effect Oct. 1 (Asheville Citizen-Times)

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How Transit Agencies Can Offer Better Paratransit Service at Lower Costs

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2016 | No Comments

Paratransit costs are rising fast. Graph: Brookings via Rudin Center Paratransit service for people with disabilities is a big part of what modern transit agencies do, and it’s getting bigger all the time. As the population ages and more people rely on paratransit to get around, agencies need to get smart about how they provide the service [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Sep 20, 2016 | No Comments

Atlanta Drivers Hunt for Gas After Pipeline Spill (AJC)
Gas Prices in the South Expected to Keep Rising (The Telegraph)
South Carolina Suspends Trucking Rules to Speed Delivery (Charleston Scene)
North Carolina Governor Declares State of Emergency (WCNC)
Price-Gouging Complaints Pour in in Tennessee (WJHL)
Alabama Less Hard Hit by Spill Than Neighbors (AL.com)
Mississippi Has Gas, but Not Diesel (WCBI)
Gas Company Is Building a Temporary Pipeline (Fox News)
Memphis Boardwalk Across the Mississippi Opens Next Month (Commercial Appeal)
Miami Beach Developer Says Transit Station Will Make His Tower More Appealing (SF Biz Journal)
Fairfax County, VA Offers Prizes for Transit Users (Reston Now)

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Paris to Return Its Great Public Squares to the People

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 19, 2016 | No Comments

Paris’s Place de la République, before and after a 2012 redesign. Before photo: Google Street View; after photo: Clem/Flickr If you look at paintings from the pre-automotive era, Paris’s monumental public squares were full of people strolling comfortably. But over time, car traffic has consumed most of these squares. Now, under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris is setting out to remake the city’s squares as great [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Sep 19, 2016 | No Comments

Broken Gasoline Pipeline Disrupts the South (WJTV, WDBJ, Charlotte Observer, AJC, WTVC)
Miami-Dade Commissioner to Mayor Carlos Gimenez: Fund Light Rail Now (Miami Herald)
St. Augustine Regulates Taxis (Historic City News)
Handicapped in Gainesville, FL? Good Luck Catching a Bus (Gainesville Sun)
Fort Lauderdale Is Cutting Car Lanes on a Half-Dozen Streets (Sun Sentinel)
The Atlanta BeltLine Is Building Affordable Housing (Creative Loafing)
Mississippi State Converts Parking Into Parks

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Highlights From Park(ing) Day Around the Globe

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 16, 2016 | No Comments

Today is Park(ing) Day — a day to demonstrate how scarce street space can do so much more than store parked cars. Around the world, people are setting up camp in parking spots and turning them into public spaces. Here are some of the fun and creative installations we’ve come across on social media. Just for fun, vote for your [...]

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