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As bicycling has come to account for a greater share of trips in Portland, the shift is also noticeable among deliveries and cargo hauling.

Here's a good sign that protected bike lanes are here to stay in American cities: Cities are increasingly trading plastic bollards for concrete curbs, making the lanes a more permanent feature of the landscape.

Misguided safety rules from the Federal Railroad Administration are cited as the cause for all sorts of problems, from high-construction costs to pedestrian hazards to, ironically, worse safety outcomes.

"Wasteful and unnecessary." That's how citizens of Waukesha and Washington counties in Wisconsin have described a state plan to fill in wetlands for an 18-mile road widening project on Highway 164.

The last few decades have been difficult on the neighborhood church.

To peer inside the minds of highway builders, take a look at what's happening in Dallas.

In no major city in the country are transit riders suffering like they are in Detroit. Motor City residents who rely on transit are losing jobs to buses that never show, or waits that last for hours.

Is the suburban office park going the way of the shopping mall?

In the final installment of a three-part series on Wisconsin's sputtering tech sector, Bruce Thompson at Urban Milwaukee notes that his home state ranks near the bottom of Democratic-leaning states on the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s "New Economy Index." If a strong start-up economy is linked to Democratic voting patterns, as ITI's data shows, then what's gone wrong in Wisconsin?