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After a woman on a bike was killed on Marion Street, opponents of proposed safety upgrades to a bike lane there tried to justify their opposition — in classic Nimby style — by saying the street was in a historic district. But Kyle Clark wasn’t having it.

In cities with good bike infrastructure, residents can access thousands of additional jobs on two wheels, a new study finds.

Sioux Falls is in the middle of an eight-phase overhaul of its transit system that would shift is fixed route bus service to an on demand system, allowing vehicles to change their routes based on passenger needs rather than a fixed line or schedule.

A coalition of mayors wants Congress to declare a "Marshall Plan" against climate change by spending on mass transit to curb air pollution in their cities. The mayors of Atlanta, Honolulu, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, and Portland, Ore., implored senators at a climate hearing on Capitol Hill last week to invest in renewable-energy programs in order to create jobs and fund bus and rail systems, with the goal of weening people off gas-polluting vehicles.

The city will leave it up to businesses to decide how many parking spaces they need in two center-city neighborhoods.

But in the United States, our children's lives (and deaths!) are entirely framed by the automobile.

Administration delay tactics have made applying for transit construction funding much more costly and difficult.

Wearing a bike helmet may encourage motorists to ride more aggressively and cyclists to take more risks, according to studies.

Millennials are moving to suburbs. But in a lot of cases they don't have much of a choice.