• Police Pump Up Speed Enforcement After Driver Kills 12-Year-Old in South City. What About Everywhere Else? (Fox2Now)
• CMT Looks at Where Democratic and Republican Party Platforms Stand on Transit
• Death by Motor Vehicle Skyrocketing in Illinois This Year (BND)
• Hamilton, MO Passes New-to-Them Bicycle Laws (News-Press Now)
• St. Joseph Transit to Remain Free for Missouri Western Students, Faculty (News-Press Now)
• Transpo Data Collection Needs to Focus on the Whole, Not Just Cars (Planetizen)

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• More Rain Expected Today, Check the News for Road Closures (KSDK)
• If Approved, Ameren Will Add Electric Car Charging Stations Along I-70 (The Missouri Times)
• St. Louis Submitted More Than 30 Proposals to MoDOT’s Cost-Share Program (Missourinet)
• Treehugger Touches on Some of the Positives of an All Electric Car Fleet
• Marrying the Private Sector to Transit Projects Could Be Risky (Gizmodo)
• Real Estate Appraisers Need to Catch Up to How People Value a Walkable Community (Bike Shop Hub)

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• City and County Need to Work Together on Transit (Post-Dispatch)
• Marchez Mosley Suing East St. Louis for Failure to Provide Safe Walking Surface (Madison-St. Clair Record)
• No Charges for Motorist Who Severely Injured Teen Cyclist in Belleville (KMOV)
• Air Force Vet’s Only Mode of Transportation, His Bicycle, Stolen in Blue Springs (Fox4KC)
• August 15-19 Work Schedule for MetroLink (NextStop)
• America No Longer the Land of the Free (TownHall)

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• Join This Free Series on Creating Stable Neighborhoods at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
• Maybe Don’t Drive the Ambulance Across the Wooden Pedestrian Bridge (Fox2Now)
• Brayan Sosa Charged in Hit-And-Run That Killed Clinton Vorce in South St. Louis (Post-Dispatch)
• Does St. Charles County’s New Transpo Manager Have More Than Cars in Mind? (Post-Dispatch)
• St. Louis City Approves $2 Million in MetroLink Expansion Study (St. Louis Public Radio)
• St. Louis and Kansas City in Top 30 for Cities That are Dangerous for Pedestrians (CarInsurance)
• KC Streetcar is “Fostering a Lifestyle Change” (KC Star)

• Speeding Motorist Hits, Kills Cyclist Along Rte. 15 in Belleville (KSDK)
• City’s Parking Commission Voting Today on Funding MetroLink Study (STL Business Journals)
• Police May Have Found Driver Who Killed Clinton Vorce (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• …And the Family Wants Justice (Fox2Now)
• The Adjustment to Using MetroLink Wasn’t Hard at All for Steve (NextStop)
• Hey, St. Louis — Let’s Get Smart (T4America)
• The Latest News from PedNet Coalition
• Demolition on Grand Bridge in Kansas City Set for August 26 (KC Star)
• The Racial Wealth Gap in Cities is Staggering (Next City)

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• St. Louis County Approves $3 Million for MetroLink Expansion Study (CMT)
• Motorist Kills 12-Year-Old Clinton Vorce, Speeds Away in South St. Louis (WorldNow)
• Video of Motorist Striking Jacoby Thomas, Fleeing at 2-Year Anniversary Demonstration in Ferguson (Daily Mail)
• Union Station Facelift Includes Updates to MetroLink (Washington Times)
• The Pitch Digs Deeper Into Kansas City’s Nomination for America’s Sorriest Bus Stop
• Treehugger Thinks Kansas City Should Have Won the Competition

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• Taxi Commission’s Lawsuit Against Uber to Go to State Court (KMOX)
• Deadline Passes With No Objections Filed to Expansion of KC Streetcar (KC Star)
• Allow Extra Time This Week If You Ride MetroLink (NextStop)
• How Accessible Will New Transpo Tech Be for Lower-Income City Residents? (Planetizen)
• One-Way Streets — Yea or Nay? (Strong Towns)

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• Motorist Strikes, Kills Man Saturday Night on I-70 in Kansas City (Fox4KC)
• All Sorts of Amenities Coming to a MetroLink Station Near You Soon (Post-Dispatch)
• Possible Settlement in 2014 Death of Jackie Cheatom, Struck, Killed by Two Motorists (Columbia Tribune)
• Sidewalks Widened in Duluth in Order to Accommodate Cyclists (Planetizen)

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