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Dallas is in the process of rolling out a “bike-share” system. According to the Dallas Morning News, the city installed the first two stations in a local park this week. The project got a boost from a $125,000 grant, and the plan is to expand the system piece by piece. But due to its pricing […]

There’s no shortage of good reasons to drive less, but maybe the most compelling personal incentive is that it can save you a ton of money. Unfortunately, in a lot of places, making major changes to your travel habits is not that simple. Darin at ATL Urbanist says that in his city, most people are essentially trapped […]

A group of Portland leaders are headed to New York City this week for the Vision Zero for Cities Symposium. As Tanya reported earlier this week, the city is formulating its own Vision Zero strategy, seeking to entirely eliminate traffic fatalities. Within city government there seems to be a lot of support for setting street […]

Subsidies for driving in America are so numerous and layered, it can be hard to sort them out. We have general funds paying for roads, tax breaks for big oil companies, free parking nearly everywhere. David Levinson at the Transportationist picks out another one that’s a lot more obscure, but still substantial: The hidden subsidy is […]

Second-ring suburbs are at a crossroads, says Nathaniel Hood at Streets.mn. These aren’t streetcar suburbs, but those that came after, where every home had a garage, the product of an era when driving was considered a symbol of American prosperity. With infrastructure maintenance costs rising with age, and no room for more sprawl, these areas must either “build up” […]

Street safety advocates in Washington, DC, have been pushing for an important legal reform that would help pedestrians and bicyclists injured in car collisions. The DC Council will today consider a bill to reform the definition of “contributory negligence,” which currently makes it almost impossible for victims to recover their medical costs after a collision. […]