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A group of Portland leaders are headed to New York City this week for the Vision Zero for Cities Symposium. As Tanya reported earlier this week, the city is formulating its own Vision Zero strategy, seeking to entirely eliminate traffic fatalities.

Subsidies for driving in America are so numerous and layered, it can be hard to sort them out. We have general funds paying for roads, tax breaks for big oil companies, free parking nearly everywhere.

What would it take to make Louisville a bike-friendly city?

Second-ring suburbs are at a crossroads, says Nathaniel Hood at Streets.mn. These aren't streetcar suburbs, but those that came after, where every home had a garage, the product of an era when driving was considered a symbol of American prosperity.

Street safety advocates in Washington, DC, have been pushing for an important legal reform that would help pedestrians and bicyclists injured in car collisions. The DC Council will today consider a bill to reform the definition of "contributory negligence," which currently makes it almost impossible for victims to recover their medical costs after a collision. As Tanya reported yesterday, DC is one of just a handful of places in America where pedestrians and cyclists are denied this type of compensation under the law.

Here's another race for governor with big implications for transportation policy: In Pennsylvania, businessman Tom Wolf handily beat incumbent Tom Corbett.

While last night's election is looking like decisively bad news for transit in the Senate and in several statehouses, the results from local ballot initiatives are a little brighter. Here are the highlights that have Streetsblog Network members buzzing, as well as results from other referendums around the country.

St. Petersburg doesn't need light rail, according to local Republican state legislator Jeff Brandes, because self driving cars are going to make transit irrelevant. That's why Brandes is fighting a ballot issue to be decided today in Pinellas County that would expand bus service 65 percent and open the way for future light rail, he told Fortune.

Halloween is fun because we get to be afraid of things that we know aren't really scary. But for little trick or treaters in the United States, the danger posed by reckless drivers and unsafe roads is real.