Kea Wilson wrote:

A Indiana city famous for installing hundreds of roundabouts on its roads was able to cut injury-causing traffic crashes by as much as 84 percent at intersections outfitted with the hotly debated design, a new study finds — and researchers think more cities should consider “going round,” too.

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Jay Stange wrote:

The Twin Cities are plenty big enough to support healthy transit ridership, but as it turns out, size doesn’t matter in transit. On last week’s Strong Towns Podcast, Jason Slaughter from Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns’ Chuck Marohn sat down to talk about what America keeps getting wrong about public transit...
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Todd Litman wrote:

Automobiles receive the vast majority of transportation funding: about 85 percent of spending by departments of transportation is devoted to roadways—about 95 percent if we also consider expenditures by businesses on government-mandated parking facilities.

This made driving easier and other forms of travel worse. As a result, most North American communities ar...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

“In recent months, shared micromobility companies like Bird, Lime and Lyft have rapidly expanded their products in small and midsized markets with populations ranging from 2,500 to over 150,000,” reports Austyn Gaffney in Smart Cities Dive. Despite the backlash to micromobility from some community groups concerned about safety and parking, industry stalwar...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

When asked about his decision to move from Atlanta to Boise, Keane tells Prentice, “If you look at American cities in the way they've grown over the past 50 or 60 years, the pattern is very similar. The scale is different. But in Boise, the question that intrigues me is, ‘Can w...
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Todd Litman wrote:

I like the term, urban village, or just village because they describe compact, mixed, walkable neighborhoods where it is easy to get around without driving. These can also be called transit-oriented development, new urbanism, location-efficient development, and recently 15-minute neighborhoods. Regardless of the name, they help residents become healthy, wealthy, and happy.

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Charles Marohn wrote:

And that’s really the core problem commuting culture creates, a challenge that money spent fighting congestion only makes worse: the diffuse development pattern generates more public costs than it builds private wealth. These are low productivity environments, a financial imbalance that no transportation investment will overcome.

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We don’t have the mone...
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Michael Andersen wrote:

Building owners paid Metro Transit $14 per month for each unit and offered one pass per household as part of their leases. (A regular Metropass for unlimited rides costs $83 per month.)

In case you were wondering, that comes to an 83 percent bulk-rate discount being offered by the transit agency.

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“We also provide a community car fo...
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Kea Wilson wrote:

Private developers have pursued similar concepts in the past, like the much blogged-about Culdesac development in Tempe, which will bundle a package of non-automotive mobility options into the price of rent when it opens later this year. But the Utah site may be the first publicly-sponsored project to pursue a car-light model...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has issued a new policy that "recognizes that streets are not only used for transportation but are also valuable community spaces," acknowledging the need to prioritize infrastructure for pedestrians, bike riders, and transit users in every Caltrans project. According to Melanie Curry, the policy solidifies the...
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