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On March 9, advocacy organizations Front and Centered and Disability Rights Washington held the first of a series of press conferences calling for Washington State legislators to halt spending on new highways. Instead, the coalition urges lawmakers to prioritize investments in building missing sidewalks and creating reliable transit and paratransit systems to serve all Washington towns and cities.

One promising trend in urban planning is the push from a growing number of U.S. cities to reduce minimum parking requirements for new developments. As the name suggests, parking minimums require developers to build a certain amount of spaces, regardless of whether a community wants or needs them.

Just for fun, today we're taking a look at two waiting areas where riders are forced to contend with some truly laughable dangers, including golf balls in Denver. We're willing to bet there are even weirder safety concerns at bus stops across America. 

A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards. 

The nation's battle with COVID-19 had a terrible side-effect for America's pedestrians: more death.

"Cruise control" technology was invented to help drivers maintain a safe and steady speed – but more often, they use it to go faster than they would without it, a new study finds.

This is the fourth first-round matchup in the Sweet 16 round of our annual Sorriest Bus Stop contest (voting continues through Sunday at 4 p.m. Eastern). In our previous first-round bouts, Narberth demolished Trenton, Quebec City advanced to the Abominable Eight with a complete destruction of Philadelphia; and Queens devastated Lynchburg.

No one likes congestion, but that's not a reason to pool a lot of public money into it, says an expert.

"Electric vehicles won't save us from climate change, but parking reform might," one researcher said.