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Remember how suburban office parks used to be all the rage? Their strongest selling point was that you didn’t have to pay to park at them. And if you lived in the suburbs anyway, you could avoid the hassle of going into the city, basically, ever. What could go wrong? Well, Bruce Murphy at Urban […]

The Seattle City Council is poised to pass some legislation that would crack down on popular ridesharing services like Lyft and UberX. In an apparent attempt to protect the city’s taxi industry, the new rules would limit ridesharing companies to 100 drivers and limit driver hours to 16 per week. Lyft officials have said it […]

What would it take to get Los Angeles residents to drive less? New research indicates that building light rail is working well. A study from the University of Southern California of the new Expo light rail line — which opened in two phases last year and runs 8.7 miles west from downtown — found that people living near […]

This is a make or break week for the Cincinnati streetcar. The Federal Transit Administration has given the city until Thursday to provide “unequivocal” assurances that the “paused” project will proceed at the agreed upon schedule, or the agency will revoke its $45 million grant to the project. The city’s new mayor, John Cranley, campaigned […]

The above video, excerpted from a Dutch television documentary series, shows how children helped catalyze the fight for safe streets in Amsterdam more than a generation ago. The documentary examines the conditions in a dense urban neighborhood called De Pijp, from the perspective of local children. In the film, neighborhood kids energetically advocate for a play […]

By more than a two-to-one margin, Oregon residents would rather maintain existing highways than expand them. That’s one of the most interesting findings from a recent survey of state residents taken by the Oregon Department of Transportation. Oregon residents’ attitudes to transportation infrastructure seem to be changing quickly, reports Michael Andersen at Bike Portland. They […]