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I don't bike, but I still feel safer on streets with bike lanes. This essay explains why.

March 11 - Michael Lewyn

Arriving this week. Like, practically right now.

March 11 - The Washington Post

Mechanical failures and understaffing have contributed to plummeting ridership for the Cincinnati Bell Connector.

March 11 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

The amenity in highest demand for companies looking to develop office space in Atlanta might surprise people: it's access to public transit.

March 11 - Bisnow Atlanta

Although it's unclear if the change is final, it's been widely reported that leadership at the U.S. Department of Housing and Development is pushing to remove wording about racial discrimination from the organization's mission statement.

March 10 - The Huffington Post

Designed to thwart predatory lawsuits, the bill could make it easier for businesses to ignore barriers to access, disability rights advocates say.

March 10 - The Washington Post

None of the top 100 American cities in African American population offers inclusive homeownership rates.

March 10 - Urban Institute

They say the pendulum swings, and the TIGER grant funding pendulum has swung away from public transit.

March 10 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

Kris Graves photographs all 77 NYPD precincts from Tottenville to Edenwald, looking to these buildings—sometimes humble, sometimes imposing—for the face and footprint of law and order in the neighborhood.

March 10 - Urban Omnibus

Surveys on ride-hailing conducted by regional planning agencies, academic institutions, and public transit agencies throughout the U.S. reviewed by the Associated Press largely led to the same conclusion: more traffic and reduced use of transit.

March 9 - Associated Press

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been criticized by pedestrian safety activists and, when a driver ran a red light killing two young children, hundreds came out to confront the mayor in person.

March 9 - The Village Voice

The Chicago Transit Authority's Red-Purple Bypass Project will add an additional track to speed up trains passing through the Belmont Station. The project requires the demolition of several neighborhood buildings.

March 9 - Chicago Tribune

Vancouver's mile-long street car was built for the Olympics and ran for only 60 days, but some of the city's residents want that service back.

March 9 - Next City

After the worst wildfire season ever, changes to local land use and state insurance rules essentially ensure that the same thing will happen again.

March 9 - Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Politicians are taking positions on a controversial California housing bill to densify by transit. Even after amendments were accepted on March 1 in response to concerns about displacement and demolitions, the mayor of Los Angeles remains opposed.

March 9 - The Architect's Newspaper

Boise and surrounding cities are going to need new housing to meet the demand of tens of thousands of new residents in the coming years.

March 9 - Idaho Business Review

Queens Boulevard from Roosevelt Avenue to 73rd Street got a new look in 2015, but the New York Department of Transportation is planning to take the street redesign even further.

March 9 - StreetsBlog NYC

For many decades now, most communities in the United States have grown as a series of subdivisions, built on a tried and true formula. It might be time to change the math.

March 9 - Strong Towns

The Summerhill Bus Rapid Transit Project—on track to become the first bus rapid transit line in the state of Georgia—received a critical bath of funding from the federal government this week in the form of a $12.6 million TIGER grant.

March 9 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In a move to grant further autonomy and rights to the homeless population of Seattle, a court found in favor of a man who argued his truck was his home and should not have been towed after he didn't move for 72 hours.

March 8 - The Seattle Times