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Teen Driver Runs Over Boy on Bike for Throwing Water Bottle
In a particularly heinous road rage incident last weekend, a 17-year-old girl in Sacramento intentionally rammed her car into a 13-year-old boy on a bike, hospitalizing him. What made this young woman fly into a murderous rage? Richard Masoner at Cyclelicious excerpted this report from the San Francisco Chronicle:
May 2, 2014
Omaha Developer Sells “Walkable Main Street” of Parking Lots
As the downside of sprawling development becomes better understood, some developers are getting better at greenwashing sprawl.
May 1, 2014
Washington DOT Chief: Seattle’s Big Highway Tunnel Might Not Get Built
Nearly five months after coming to a halt beneath the city of Seattle, Bertha -- the largest tunnel boring machine in the world -- is still immobilized. It had barely begun to clear space for the underground highway meant to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct when it broke down late last year.
April 30, 2014
Drunk Driver Plows Into Marathon for Alcohol Abuse Awareness
Further evidence that seemingly no place is safe from errant drivers in the United States:
April 29, 2014
When State DOTs Make Roads Dangerous in the Name of Safety
A terrible car collision in Wisconsin on Friday has orphaned five children.
April 28, 2014
Anthony Foxx: If States Want to Toll Freeways, U.S. DOT Is Open to That
Yonah Freemark at the Metropolitan Planning Council's Connector blog got to sit down recently with U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. Formerly the mayor of Charlotte, Foxx has been at the helm of U.S. DOT for nearly a year now, but we're still getting to know him.
April 25, 2014
Mapping the Link Between Geography and Opportunity
They call it "spatial mismatch" -- when people are separated from job opportunities by long commutes, poor transit connections, or other geographic obstacles. How places contribute to, or thwart, economic opportunity is an increasingly hot topic, but still not entirely understood.
April 24, 2014
Big Cuts in Store for Seattle Transit After Voters Reject Ballot Measure
It looks like Seattle's Prop 1, the ballot measure that could have fended off major cuts for Seattle transit, did not win a majority of the votes in yesterday's election.
April 23, 2014
How Cities Should Frame the Way They Think About Mobility
The evidence that our transportation systems are producing less-than-optimal results speaks for itself -- whether it's grinding congestion, obscene traffic fatality rates, or the greenhouse gases we're spewing into the atmosphere at catastrophic rates.
April 22, 2014
Portland’s Tilikum Crossing, a Bridge for the 21st Century
Tilikum Crossing, a new bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, is everything the hated Columbia River Crossing was not. While the CRC would have devoted billions to expanding car lanes and new highway interchanges, the Tilikum will serve only transit, biking, and walking.
April 21, 2014