Cast Your Vote for the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2017
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Albuquerque, Cleveland, Toronto, St. Paul, Austin and Halifax - each of these six cities claimed a lot of space from cars to make streets work better for people.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Another Recommendation From MO Transpo Task Force: Stronger Seat Belt Laws (Missourinet)
- Find Out How Dylan Uses MetroLink (NextStop)
- Have You Joined in On #GreatThingsThatHappenedOnTransit? (Treehugger)
- Buck O’Neil Bridge Needs More Funding for Replacement (KC Star)
- Ways Cities Can Keep Up With Urban Growth (Next City)
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Is Your City Committed to Vision Zero, or Just Paying Lip Service?
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For mayors, declaring a commitment to safer streets is the easy part. Following through with meaningful policies to rapidly reduce traffic injuries and deaths is another matter.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Missouri Transpo Task Force Recommending Gas Tax Increase (Missourinet)
- Motorist Paige Bryan Hits, Injures Pedestrian in Mexico Monday (Mexico Ledger)
- Man Severely Injured by Hit-And-Run Motorist Returns Home Seven Months Later (KSDK)
- The Fight Between Taxi Commission and Uber Is Over (St. Louis Business Journal – Paywall)
- MoDOT to Halt Construction on Roads During the Christmas Holiday (Hannibal Courier-Post)
- Missouri Officials Drooling Over Hyperloop One (KC Star)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Now You Can Text/Email Metro for Transit Info (NextStop)
- Hit-and-Run Motorist Kills Pedestrians in South Kansas City (KC Star)
- Nearly 50 Percent Increase in Fatal Crashes in Kansas City This Year (KCTV)
- Kirksville 2018 Budget Includes Potential Transpo Improvements (Kirksville Daily Express)
- Find Out MetroLink Scheduled Delays for This Week (NextStop)
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What the Amtrak 501 Derailment Says About America’s Failure to Prevent Train Crashes
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While the investigation is just beginning, initial reports indicate that the train entered a tight curve at too high a speed.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Police Searching for Information in Hit-And-Run Death Saturday Night in Kansas City (Fox4KC)
- Motorist Hits, Kills Person Friday in Pemiscot County (KFVS)
- New Tax Bill Eliminates Commuter Incentives for Parking, Transit, Bicycling (AP)
- State Task Force Will Most Likely Recommend Gas Tax Hike (Ozarks First)
- Clayco Steps Up to Give Loop Trolley Funds to Operate (STL Business Journal)
- Columbia Looking at Tougher Distracted Driving Law (Columbia Tribune)
- Road Rage Attacker Scott Heatherly Surrendered Friday (Post-Dispatch)
- LTE: “Trump’s Infrastructure Plan is All Smoke and Mirrors, Friends” (News Tribune)
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Elon Musk Is Wrong. The Only Way to Save City Transport Is to Share Large Vehicles With Other People.
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One man's genius can't change the geometric facts of cities.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- MoDOT Needs to do More Than Creates PSAs to Reduce Deaths on Natural Bridge (Better Roads)
- Missouri Official Thinks 1-70 Should be Highest Priority for MO Transpo Task Force (Missourinet)
- Missouri Lawmakers Adamant About Low Taxes, But That Comes at a Cost (STL Business Journal)
- Join MPTA, CMT at Public Transit Day in Jeff City February 15
- Camden County’s Little Niangua Bridge Is Only One of Its Kind Still Standing in the U.S. (Lake News)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- MO Task Force Shows Most Missourians Willing to Pay More for Better Roads, Transpo (Columbia Tribune)
- KC Police “Baffled” by Rise in Traffic Fatalities — We Have an Idea Why (KCUR)
- Find Out Why Renauda Uses Metro (NextStop)
- How Appealing Is Missouri’s Hyperloop Route? (Columbia Missourian)
- Treehugger Learns First-Hand How Horrible It Is to Walk in a U.S. Suburb
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Send in Your Nominations for the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2017
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Did your city complete a great project this year that carved out street space for bus riders or cyclists or pedestrians - or better yet, all three?
Talking Headways Podcast: Transatlantic Part 2 — London
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This week I chat again with Jonn Ellege of CityMetric (catch up on part one, if you haven't listened yet). This time it’s my turn to interview and we cover a lot of ground. We talk about major London transit projects including Crossrail and high speed rail, how Transport for London is regulating Uber, what’s happening to the buses on Oxford Street, and more.