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How do you explain the outrage some drivers feel when they have to slow down for a few seconds for a cyclist or a passing pedestrian? There seems to be an ingrained sense that people outside of cars violate the natural order of things, and the natural order of things is motorists sailing uninhibited to their destinations at high speeds.

Have you ever heard someone say that building a new transit line will increase ridership by so many thousands of riders?

With a population of about 60,000 and a formerly industrial economy, Kokomo, Indiana, is not the type of city that recent economic trends have favored.

Yonah Freemark at the Transport Politic calls them infill stations: new transit stops built in gaps along existing rail lines. Current examples include Assembly Station just outside Boston in Somerville, DC's NoMa Station, and the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.

A piece of top-notch bike infrastructure is coming to the largest city in Texas.

Part of the promise of Seattle's Link light rail was its potential to create walkable places in the sprawling Rainier Valley. And that's starting to happen, locals report, but developers are getting some important things wrong.

For a long time, renters have been thought of as a destabilizing force in urban areas. Federal housing policy encourages people to make the jump to homeownership in part because officials believe it will give people a larger stake in their neighborhoods and reduce crime. By subsidizing home purchases, these policies encourage people to "buy more house" and promote sprawl.

Roundabouts can have big safety and environmental benefits, but can they be adapted to be great places for bicycling as well?

Stories like this one help explain why we have a childhood obesity epidemic in the United States.