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Which Missouri County Has the Highest Pedestrian Fatality Rate?

By Brent Hugh | Apr 15, 2016 | No Comments

Which Missouri counties have the highest pedestrian fatalities rates? Are the highest fatality rates in the big cities, small cities, suburbs, or rural areas? Are most fatalities on high speed streets, low speed streets, or somewhere in between? Pedest...

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Soulard Infill, National Register Items on Preliminary Preservation Board Agenda

By Alex Ihnen | Apr 15, 2016 | No Comments

The preliminary Preservation Board agenda for the City of St. Louis shows a wide variety of possible infill projects as…

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Apr 15, 2016 | No Comments

Second Hit-And-Run Victim Identified as Jameca Stanfield, 39 (Post-Dispatch)
Two Motorists Street Racing Injure Cyclist and Flee Scene (KMOV)
Jeffrey Coker Dies After Being Struck by MetroLink (BND)
Sign This Petition If You Don’t Want ATVs on the Katy Trail
Starting April 18, Skinker and Delmar Intersection Will Close for Loop Trolley Construction (St. Louis Business Journal)
Slow Down in Construction Areas, It’s Not Worth Someone’s Life (Post-Dispatch)
MetroBus Routes at Civic Center to Change Starting Monday, April 18 (NextStop)
Is There a Conflict of Interest in Lawsuit Filed for Faulty Guardrails in Missouri? (Post-Dispatch)
IKEA Offering a City Bike; Not Quite Available at the St. Louis Store (Treehugger)
Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Transportation Policy (Planetizen)

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No Pedestrian Signal One Block From Busch Stadium

By Steve Patterson | Apr 14, 2016 | No Comments

Monday was the Cardinals home opener, tens of thousands made their way into Busch Stadium III for the afternoon game. The current stadium opened a decade ago, the previous Busch Stadium opened to the North half a century ago, in 1966. So you’d think by now the pedestrian environment to/from ...

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Apr 14, 2016 | No Comments

Police ID One of the Tuesday Night Hit-and-Run Victims as Percy Wade, 45 (Post-Dispatch)
MO HB2551 Would Increase Penalties for Hit-And-Run Motorists (KMOV, KBIA)
Aminah Z. Ali Charged in 2015 Hit-and-Run in Kansas City (KSHB)
Two Men Caught, Charged With Beating of MetroLink Guard in Belleville (BND)
St. Louis Makes the Top 10 Green Towns (FlipKey)
Study: Poor People, People of Color More Likely to Have Licenses Suspended (Governing)
Josh Uses Metro All the Time (NextStop)
Treehugger Takes Issue With The Atlantic’s Article on Automobiles

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A Big Opportunity to Reform the Vicious Cycle of Highway Expansion

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 13, 2016 | No Comments

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx made headlines recently with a speech about how America needs to rethink its approach to urban highways. But U.S. DOT’s influence is limited. States have the real power when it comes spending federal transportation funds, however, and a lot of states are still stuck in the cycle of addressing traffic congestion by widening highways, [...]

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Apr 13, 2016 | No Comments

Two Pedestrians Killed in Separate Hit-And-Runs Tuesday Night; One Injured This Morning (Post-Dispatch)
Woman Threw Chicken at Pedestrian Then Struck the Victim With Her Vehicle (KC Star)
The Atlantic Digs Into Everything Wrong With the Automobile in the U.S.
Donate Your Bike to BWorks This Saturday in Sunset Hills or Ladue
Current Testing Would Take Hundreds of Years to Prove Safety of Self-Driving Cars (Mercury News)

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The 2013 Northside-Southside Study Was About Development, Not Transit

By Steve Patterson | Apr 12, 2016 | No Comments

In 2006/07 I attended many public meetings on a proposed Northside-Southside light rail line, it was finalized in 2008. In writing about these plans in the last year, people have asked if I’d seen the new study that was done, it’s not the same as it was in 2008. The ...

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Apr 12, 2016 | No Comments

ATVs on Katy Trail Just One Subject in Monday’s Bike/Ped Day at the Capitol (St. Louis Public Radio)
KC Gets Funding to Expand Its BRT System (Next City)
Just in Time for Baseball Season, the Spruce Street Bridge Reopens (NextStop)
Metro’s Construction Schedule for the Week (NextStop)
Selling Naming Rights for Highways/Bridges Could Be in Missouri’s Future (Post-Dispatch)
Complete Streets Policies in U.S. Have Expanded From 32 Communities to 899 in a Decade (Next City)
Get Advice on Being a Trailer Parent (Bike Shop Hub)

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What Is the Transportation Burden On the Working Poor In St. Louis?

By Richard Bose | Apr 11, 2016 | No Comments

Government intervention and choices in housing and infrastructure, especially in transportation, has promoted spreading out the region. Since 1970 the…

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An Open Letter to St. Louis Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator Jamie Wilson

By Steve Patterson | Apr 11, 2016 | No Comments

Jamie, This open letter is in response to your February email reply regarding my posts St. Louis Fails At Crosswalks, Part 1 and Part 2. You wrote: Thanks for your input on the crosswalks. I’m working on improving our pedestrian facilities and we will get better. Please feel free to send me ...

Today’s Headlines

By Carrie Zukoski | Apr 11, 2016 | No Comments

Here’s Hoping St. Louis’ Next Mayor Champions Public Transit, Bike/Ped Infrastructure (Fox2Now, KMOV)
Civic Center MetroBus Changes Starting April 18 (NextStop)
Cortex Looks at Being Car-Optional in Near Future (Post-Dispatch)
Changes to Metro’s Forest Park-DeBaliviere Station (NextStop)
Memorial Ride for Cyclist Killed by Motorist in KC (Fox4KC)
28 Motorists Arrested Friday Night at Sobriety Checkpoint in Springfield (KTTS)
15-Foot Pole Protest Ride at MO State Capitol (News Tribune, KRCG)
On Ride-Share Companies and Accessibility (KC Star)

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