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Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 9, 2016 | No Comments

ATU Calls for Louisiana to Increase Transit Funding (The Advocate)
Curbed Compares Atlanta Sprawl to San Francisco Sprawl
Atlanta to Get HUD Neighborhood Revitalization Funds (Atlanta Daily World)
MARTA Reveals Revised Plan for Brookhaven TOD (The Post)
Chattanooga Developer Vies for Rail Hub Before Rail Is Funded (Times Free Press)
Miami Sees Two New Mixed-Use Proposals (South Florida Business Journal)

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Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 8, 2016 | No Comments

Brightline Unveils Rail Cars and Amenities (Palm Beach Post)
Miami Tri-Rail Deal a Feat for All Political Entities Involved (Miami Today)
Coalition Against Rail Expansion in Florida Will Release Candidate Report Cards (Florida Politics)
Is a Lack Of Driver Accountability to Blame for Lack of Safety? (Florida Today)
Atlanta City Council Rethinking Transportation Sales Tax (ATL Biz Chronicle)
Atlanta Streetcar Has One Week to Meet GDOT Demands (ATL Biz Chronicle)
Baton Rouge Plans a City Health District (Curbed)
Pedestrian Safety — It’s for Alligators, Too (Express)

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Americans Can’t Afford the High Cost of Parking Requirements

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 7, 2016 | No Comments

Americans are paying off the cost of parking construction whether they can afford it or not. Chart: Access Magazine Building a single parking spot can easily cost more than many Americans’ life savings. In the latest issue of Access Magazine, retired UCLA economist Donald Shoup brings this point home to illustrate the huge financial burden imposed by minimum parking requirements, especially [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 7, 2016 | No Comments

Wake County Adopts $2.3 Billion Transit Plan to Send to Voters (News & Observer)
MARTA Public Meetings End as Project List Prepped for November Vote (Creative Loafing)
How Will Ride Hailing Services Affect MARTA Planning? (AJC)
Atlanta Streetcar’s Biggest Problem Is the Media (Curbed)
Atlanta Is Failing at Attracting Millennials (AJC)
Did Parks, Teachers, Suffer to Build New Braves Stadium? (Deadspin)
Prairie Home Companion Skewers the Atlanta Braves Move (AJC)

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Finding the Political Will to Fix “Four-Lane Death Roads”

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 6, 2016 | No Comments

A driver struck and killed a woman last week in St. Paul on what Bill Lindeke at streets.mn calls a “four-lane death road.” A mother was killed as she crossed this “four-lane death road” in St. Paul last week. Photo: Streets.mn The victim was 32-year-old Erin Elizabeth Dunham, who was dropping her kid off at the bus. She was walking in the [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 6, 2016 | No Comments

New Wal-Mart Stores Designed to Draw Customers Who Walk and Bike (Democrat Gazette)
Relay, Atlanta’s Bike-Share Program, Launches June 9 (Creative Loafing)
Atlanta to Spend $1 Billion On Bike/Ped Projects in Next 25 Years (Bicycling)
Atlanta’s I-285 Is America’s Deadliest Interstate (AJC)
If Atlanta Votes to Join MARTA, Will Neighboring Jurisdictions Follow Suit? (AJC)
Clarksville Transit System Offers Free Rides Every Saturday in June (Discover Clarksville)
Is Uber Taking Away Rides From Transit in Charlotte? (Charlotte Observer)
Orlando’s Juice Bikes: An Unlikely Success Story (Orlando Sentinel)

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Consolidating City Offices Into a New Downtown Campus

By Leo Suarez | Jun 3, 2016 | No Comments

Corner of McDowell and Hargett Streets The City of Raleigh has around 1,100 employees and in downtown, you can find them in a variety of places. One Exchange plaza on Fayetteville Street, behind the old Raleigh Union Depot facing Nash Square, and the City Hall block are just a few of them. In May, the […]

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 3, 2016 | No Comments

NC House Passes Bill to Cancel I-77 Toll Project (Charlotte Observer)
Is Transit the Solution to Florida Congestion and Dangerous Roads? (Herald Tribune)
Tampa Looks to Miami for Cues on How Not to Build a New Ball Park (TBO)
Jacksonville Intersection Will Preserve Iconic Traffic-Calming Beacon (Florida Times-Union)
Orlando Airport Train Station Slated for Late 2017 Completion, Service Particulars TBD (Sentinel)
Development Continues, Slowly, on Atlanta Streetcar Corridor (Curbed)

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Speed Over Place: Ousting the Confederate Monument for Cars, Not Morals, the Wrong Decision

By Branden Klayko | Jun 2, 2016 | No Comments

On Wednesday, May 25, Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman denied an injunction to dismantle and store the Confederate Monument on Third Street near the University of Louisville‘s Belknap Campus clearing the way for Metro Louisville to remove and eventually relocate the 121-year-old monument. “I am pleased with the judge’s ruling that the city owns the monument and […] The post Speed Over Place: Ousting the Confederate Monument for cars, not morals, the wrong decision appeared first on Broken Sidewalk.

Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 2, 2016 | No Comments

Palm Beach Post Devotes Seven Sentences to 588 Pedestrians Killed by Florida Motorists
Miami-Dade Parking Violation Fees May Go to Fund Transit (Miami Today)
Miami-Dade Begins Process Of Updating Metrorail, Starting With Control Systems (ITS International)
With People Like This Guy Allowed to Drive, Little Wonder Florida Roads Are So Deadly (QC Online)
Suburban Nashville Leaders Head to Denver to Learn About Transit (Denver Biz Journal)
Debate Over Ugly Atlanta Parking Lot Highlights Its Ugly Past (WABE)
WABE Visualizes Atlanta Commute Patterns With Mesmerizing Map
Atlanta and MARTA Not About to Allow Commuters One Bit of Joy (CBS46)

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Today’s Headlines

By Ashley Robbins | Jun 1, 2016 | No Comments

Alabama and Florida Among Most Dangerous States to Walk (WAAY)
SFRTA Votes to Allow Tri-Rail Service at New MiamiCentral Station (Miami Herald)
When Will GDOT Threaten to Close Georgia’s Dangerous Road System? (AJC 1, 2)
Former Atlanta Mayor Knocks Cobb County, Braves for Lack of Transit at New Stadium (AJC)
Raleigh Newspaper Doesn’t Get Density (City Beautiful 21)
Nashville Needs Better Land Use Planning in Addition to Improved Transit (Nashville Biz Journal)

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3 Graphs That Explain Why 20 MPH Should Be the Limit on City Streets

By Angie Schmitt | May 31, 2016 | No Comments

A still from ProPublica‘s interactive graph. Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists. The investigative news nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive graph that deftly conveys how just a few miles per hour can spell the difference between life and death when a person is struck by a motorist. ProPublica’s Lena Groeger used data from the AAA Safety [...]

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