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Utah Moving Forward on ‘Idaho Stop’ for Cyclists

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2019 | No Comments
Cyclists could treat stop signs and red lights as yields under a bill recently passed out of committee with bipartisan support in the Utah House.
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R.I. Takes Biking/Walking Funds for Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2019 | No Comments
Almost one dozen biking and walking projects across the state of Rhode Island are in jeopardy after a state agency decided to transfer $27 million in federal money dedicated to active transportation to highways and administrative expenses over the next 10 years.
If cities don't act decisively to prioritize bus and rail Photo: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr
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Congestion Pricing Can Cure Inequitable Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 30, 2019 | No Comments
The best way to ensure that congestion pricing doesn't hurt the poor is to make sure revenues from new tolls support better transit service — not just build more highways.
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New House Transportation Chair: ‘We Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel’

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 29, 2019 | No Comments
Peter Defazio, the new chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, talks bikes, pedestrians and transit — and getting us off fossil fuel.
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Seattle’s Viadoom: The ‘Carmageddon’ That Wasn’t

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2019 | No Comments
We've seen this before: Freeways induce driving and when one closes people adapt their choices accordingly. There is no "carmageddon" after all.
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New Study of E-Scooter Injuries Raises More Questions than it Answers

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2019 | No Comments
The Journal of the American Medical Association is pushing for helmets, but the actual data is still open to interpretation.
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Study: Uber and Lyft Caused U.S. Transit Decline

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 23, 2019 | No Comments
Uber and Lyft have decreased bus ridership in San Francisco 12.7 percent since 2010, a new study estimates.
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Biking Way up in Seattle During Highway Closure

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 22, 2019 | No Comments
Biking has almost doubled along major corridors in Seattle as the city enters the fourth day of “Viadoom” — the highly publicized closure of State Route 99. Viadoom — or the “period of maximum constraint,” as city officials have called it was billed as a potentially paralyzing traffic nightmare. Monday began the three week period when […]
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Engineering Group Takes on High Speed Limits

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 22, 2019 | No Comments
One barrier to safer, more pedestrian friendly streets is slowing being dismantled.
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Transit Systems Must Address Women's Concerns

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 17, 2019 | No Comments
A new study shows women are about half as likely to use new rail service as men — especially if they express strong concerns about safety.

Six Ways the Media is Still Blaming the Victim

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 16, 2019 | No Comments
Media tropes emphasize the victim's behavior when a driver hits a pedestrian or cyclist rather than systemic causes, a new study finds.
A new organization want to help cities use mobility tech to break cars' stranglehold on cities.
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Can New Mobility Tech Disrupt Car Dependence?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 16, 2019 | No Comments
A new organization want to help cities use mobility tech to break cars' stranglehold on cities.
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