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Last week, advocates convened in Atlanta for the Untokening, a gathering for people who've felt isolated or tokenized within the safe streets movement, and an opportunity to put their perspectives front and center.

The 2016 election, more than any in recent history, divided Americans by geography. Hillary Clinton is expected to finish with around 2 million more votes than Donald Trump. But her base was concentrated along the coasts and in urban areas, a distribution of votes that could not deliver the Electoral College. Rural states and the … Continued

https://vimeo.com/191675299 We have the technology right now to revolutionize transit fare payment in ways that make transit systems faster and more user-friendly, via features like tap-and-go payment and all-door boarding. A few leading cities are doing just that, but in America most transit agencies are playing catch-up. TransitCenter recently hosted an event where officials from … Continued

We don't see football players wearing colored socks to raise awareness about traffic violence. There aren't large walks to remember victims, or heated demonstrations, except in a few cities.

The buses utilize the center-most lanes as dedicated lanes separated by thin concrete medians.

With Milwaukee looking to implement a BRT system connecting downtown to the suburb of Wauwatosa, Ken Smith of Urban Milwaukee was eager to get a look at how BRT works in Quito, when he was in the city for the recent UN Habitat III summit. The system impressed him, and Smith wonders if Milwaukee will … Continued

Somebody gotta draw the base and frieze details of that wall. #NotMyAIA https://t.co/5yQuRtks5r — Erkin Özay (@erkinozay) November 12, 2016 We are all wondering this now. When our faces are used for marketing, but our backs not protected, that’s a systemic problem. #NotMyAIA https://t.co/eS3lSXqavS — define design deploy (@LATENT_DESIGN) November 11, 2016 Architects around the … Continued

Tuesday night was a great night for transit in Seattle, where the region’s $54 billion light rail measure sailed to a win. Under normal circumstances, transit advocates would have been elated. But Tom Fucoloro at Seattle Bike Blog writes that the election of Trump has cast a shadow over the victory. Everything has changed, he … Continued

On Tuesday night, voters approved major transit improvement plans in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Raleigh, and Seattle. There were other types of transportation measures on local ballots — they focused on highway expansion and lumped in transit funding as a secondary consideration. TransitCenter reports that in California, highway-centric packages didn’t have the … Continued