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Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Aug 26, 2016 | No Comments

Miami Among Several Cities Experimenting With Driverless Buses (AlleyWatch)
Monroe/Boulevard Complete-Street Meeting Draws 400 Atlantans (Saporta Report)
Emory University Wants a MARTA Line (Creative Loafing)
Survey Finds Myrtle Beach Needs More Buses (Myrtle Beach Online)
Asheville: Sustainable Transport an Issue in Buncombe County Commission Races (Citizen-Times)
Transit Ridership Grows in Berkeley County, VA (Herald Mail Media)
Fairfax County, VA Parents Say the Walk to School Is Unsafe (NBC)
TN Lawmakers Who Raised Drunk-Driving Threshold Beg to Keep Federal Funding (Tennessean)
Northwest Arkansas Updates Its Transit Plan (Northwest Arkansas Online)
Repairing Flood Damage Could Cut Into Louisiana Road Projects (The Advocate)
Tuscaloosa Establishes Food-Truck Zones (WSFA)

Portland Wants to Rethink Speed Limits By Factoring in Walkers and Bikers

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 25, 2016 | No Comments

Portland wants to change the speed limit on North Weidler Street from 35 to 25 mph. Photo: Google Maps For cities trying to get a handle on traffic fatalities, dangerous motor vehicle speeds are an enormous problem. Once drivers exceed 20 mph, the chances that someone outside the vehicle will survive a collision plummet. But even on city [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Aug 25, 2016 | No Comments

Tampa Bay Lightning Owner Backs Light Rail System (Tampa Bay Times)
Brookhaven, GA Approves Peachtree Creek Greenway (AJC)
Rail-Trail Will Connect Chamblee, GA to PATH 400, Atlanta BeltLine (Brookhaven Post)
Design Work Is Starting on the BeltLine’s Southside Trail (Curbed)
Atlanta-Decatur Trolley Line Trail Could See New Life (Curbed)
How Hot Is Too Hot for Charleston’s Carriage Horses? (Post & Courier)
Knoxville Bike-Share Program Gearing Up (News Sentinel)
Improvements Will Make Street More Walkable for University of Memphis Students (Commercial Appeal)
New Orleans Taxi Union Calls Uber and Lyft Unsafe (Times Picayune)
Governing Magazine Looks at Transit Votes in Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, and LA

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Yes, Local Transportation Agencies Can Measure Their Climate Impacts

By Mitchell Beer | Aug 24, 2016 | No Comments

It’s going to be a tough sell for those who claim that greenhouse gas performance measures for transportation can’t possibly work, when plenty of transportation agencies say it would be no problem. That’s according to transportation officials in several regions across America who responded to a survey commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The responses were shared [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Aug 24, 2016 | No Comments

MARTA’s First Transit-Oriented Development Breaks Ground (Curbed)
Atlanta Sales Tax Referendum Could Fund Urban Trails (WABE)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Bike-Share but Were Afraid to Ask (Atlanta Bicycle Coalition)
Tampa Could Vote on Its Own Transportation Sales Tax (Tampa Bay Times)
Horry County Dimwits Hot to Bulldoze Wetland to “Relieve Congestion” in Myrtle Beach (The State)
Louisville Adds Bus Shelter to Wal-Mart Project (Courier-Journal)
Suffolk Creating Bike/Ped Master Plan (Virginian-Pilot)
Arkansas Considers I-66 Toll Lanes (KSFM)
Can South Florida Be Saved? (Gizmodo)

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When Cities Force Developers to Widen Roads, Everyone Loses

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 23, 2016 | No Comments

At L.A.’s Vermont-Wilshire Towers, the city made the developer cede land and pay for 6,000 square feet of road widening. Photo: Google Maps It’s a common practice for cities to make developers widen a street when they put up a new building. The thinking is that development creates car trips that must be accommodated with more asphalt. But new research [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Aug 23, 2016 | No Comments

No, Miami Herald, the South Beach Streetcar Would Not “Eliminate Traffic Lanes”
Charlotte Is Studying Protected Bike Lanes (Charlotte Observer)
Durham Considers Downtown Parking Rate Hike (News and Observer)
Charlotte Orthopedists Stencil Workout Routines on Sidewalks (WCNC)
Unlicensed Driver Hits Child in Lake Worth School Crosswalk — No Criminal Charges (Palm Beach Post)
Athens, GA Picks Which Sidewalks to Build First (Banner-Herald)
More on the Plan to “Stitch” Atlanta’s Freeway Scars (What Now Atlanta)
Charleston Can Make Parking Easy or Inexpensive, But Not Both (P&C)

Portland Will Connect Streets Over a Highway With a Car-Free Bridge

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 22, 2016 | No Comments

Portland’s newest car-free bridge will complete a key bike route. Image via Bike Portland Here’s one way to heal some of the damage created by urban interstates. Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland reports that the city has won a $2.6 million state grant to help it complete a key bike route. To fill in the missing segment, Portland has [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Aug 22, 2016 | No Comments

Charleston Council Rep Keith Waring Opposes Bike Lane, Says Cyclists Sometimes “Have to Die” (P&C)
Virginian-Pilot Endorses Expansion of Light Rail in Virginia Beach
Beat the Heat With Miami’s Air-Conditioned Bus Shelters (Miami Herald)
Plan for New Complete Street to Tennessee Riverwalk Draws Opposition (Chattanooga TFP)
Tennessee May Lose Federal Transpo Funds After Making It Easier to Drive Drunk (Tennessean)
I-285 Is the Deadliest Freeway in America (AJC)
Bike Path Along 400 in Atlanta Inches Forward (Buckhead View)
Milledgeville, GA Seeks Silver Bike-Friendly Status (Union Recorder)
Birmingham’s New 12th Court Bridge Will Better Accommodate Walking (AL.com)
Better Land Use Planning Could’ve Helped Prevent Baton Rouge Flooding (CityLab)

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Carless Renters Forced to Pay $440 Million a Year for Parking They Don’t Use

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 19, 2016 | No Comments

Many residents of American cities can’t escape the high cost of parking, even if they don’t own cars. Thanks to policies like mandatory parking requirements and the practice of “bundling” parking with housing, carless renters pay $440 million each year for parking they don’t use, according to a new study by C.J. Gabbe and Gregory Pierce in [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued | Aug 19, 2016 | No Comments

Should Greenville, NC, Commit to Zero Pedestrian Deaths? (Daily Reflector)
Cobb Businesses Drop Challenge to Braves Fans Walking to New Stadium (AJC)
Georgia State University, Atlanta Cut Deal to Develop Turner Field’s Parking Lots (Creative Loafing)
Connection to MARTA Is Key for Massive Doraville Project (Marietta Daily Journal)
‘Cash Mob’ Draws Attention to Need for Bike Lanes (Access Atlanta)
Two-Way Conversions, Extended Grid Coming to Midtown Atlanta (Curbed)
Miami Startup Uses Lyft to Take People to the Doctor (Miami Herald)
Memphis Taxi Company Sues Uber and Lyft (Commercial Appeal)
Tour de Collierville Set for September 3 (Commercial Appeal)
Alabama DOT Eyes Diverging Diamond for Major I-65 Interchange (Birmingham Business Journal)

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State DOTs to Feds: We Don’t Want to Reveal Our Impact on Climate Change

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 18, 2016 | No Comments

State DOTs don’t want to report on how their spending decisions affect greenhouse gas emissions. Photo: Andrew Boone Every year state DOTs receive tens of billions of dollars in transportation funds from the federal government. By and large, they can do whatever they want with the money, which in most states means wasting enormous sums on [...]

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