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Today on the Network, Copenhagenize takes a look at a proposal that shakes up the traditional "complete street" concept.

Decades ago, Kent was a small Ohio college town, some 40 miles from Cleveland, surrounded by countryside, streams, and thick forests.

Just how green are electric vehicles?

Outgoing U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said a few parting words yesterday at the National Press Club, just an hour before his successor, Anthony Foxx, was confirmed by the full Senate. The theme of LaHood's prepared remarks was bipartisanship, but he admits he's not seeing enough of it these days in Washington.

How many times have you read about someone who was injured while walking or biking, only to be found at fault by law enforcement? And in those cases, how many times did police blame the victim based on nothing more than self-serving testimony from the driver? That's what happened to Zach T. in Washington, DC, this spring, but thanks to his own persistence and detective work, he was able to prove the driver's account wrong and obtain some measure of delayed justice.

For years, transit agencies and other companies have been harassed by a patent troll seeking to extort them for "settlements" when they use real-time vehicle tracking technologies. ArrivalStar and Melvino Technologies, offshore firms led by one Martin Kelly Jones, claim to hold the rights to those ideas.

There it is, at your typical American suburban transit stop: a parking lot -- a free one, probably.

The federal gas tax hasn't been raised in decades, but the idea of doing something about it seems like a political nonstarter in Washington because everyone knows how much people hate higher gas taxes. Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions says maybe public sentiment is a little more nuanced than that, if you look at a recent survey by the Mineta Transportation Institute:

This is going to come as a shock, but counting the number of passengers on a new transit line the first week it opens isn't that great a way to predict whether that line will be successful in the long term.