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Many thanks to the 90 readers who sent photos of city life and car-free transportation with children, and also to the 639 of you who voted. We are happy to announce the two winners of a free Breezer bike. This picture of Dave Cowan’s daughter, Isabelle, ran away with 259 votes — an impressive 41 […]

Transit riders in the city of Pittsburgh were alarmed last week when the Post-Gazette reported a plan to make the city’s downtown “bus free.” The proposal has been under discussion between officials from the Port Authority, the Allegheny County Executive, the city’s likely next mayor — City Council Member Bill Peduto — and a group […]

While Apple gets ready to break ground on its suburban spaceship campus, Palo Alto-based Survey Monkey is showing there’s a better way to locate. Adina Levin at Network blog Peninsula Transportation Alternatives says that less than a third of Survey Monkey employees drive to work — thanks, quite simply, to a transit-friendly site: The developer of online survey […]

Rest of the Poll: Slim Majority Wants to Halt HSR, But Huge Majorities See Benefits (WNYC) L.A. Has the Worst Roads in the Country for a City (LAT) Could the Riverside-Figueroa Bridge Become a Highline Park? (KCET) Brown Signs Bill Allowing Undocumented Immigrants to Get Driver’s Licenses (Daily News, LAT) Traffic Light Installed at Intersection […]

Every house or apartment comes with an embedded cost: transportation. Depending on the location and local infrastructure, those costs can be very small or very large. There’s a good deal of evidence that transportation expenses can have a direct impact on mortgage loan defaults. Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions says banks should consider these costs […]