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She wanted her kids to be safe in the front yard, so she held the sign over her head and stood in the middle the street. Police slapped her with a jaywalking ticket.

In a recent editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer argued that "wheezing, block-long buses" should get booted off the city's main square, disrupting tens of thousands of transit trips. But rerouting the buses is going to make emissions worse, not better.

What’s the cost of a long commute? If you’re struggling to make ends meet, spending hours each day just to get to work not only costs you time, it can also be a major barrier to economic mobility. In Rochester, New York, the advocacy group Reconnect Rochester has been taking a close look at the 7,500 local workers who commute by […]

When Maryland Governor Larry Hogan unilaterally killed plans for Baltimore’s 14-mile Red Line light rail, shifting the funds to road projects in whiter parts of the state, local advocates filed a civil rights complaint. Hogan, meanwhile, said he would make it up to the city with a set of bus improvements called BaltimoreLink. After getting a good long look […]

All sorts of biases toward cars and driving are baked into traffic engineering conventions. In a promising development, Portland is taking steps to rethink these rules to promote walkable development.