How Shared Parking Can Reduce Housing Costs and Cut Traffic
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To reduce the amount of parking in new construction, Seattle is looking to make more efficient use of existing parking.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Motorists Need to Understand — Streets Aren’t Just for Cars (KSHB)
- Driver Crashed Into Cyclist This Morning in Columbia (ABC17)
- New Foundation “Fight Hard” Aims for Tougher Laws Against Hit-and-Run Motorists (KMOX)
- 94 Percent of Missouri Highway Patrol State Troopers Are White, Mostly Male (AP)
- Columbia Considers Ban on Texting While Driving for All Ages (Columbia Tribune)
- Existing Gas Tax Model Is Flawed (KC Star)
- KC Streetcar Gets a Boost With Newly-Elected Advocates (KCUR)
- Nationally, Pedestrian Fatalities Increased Dramatically in 2016 (AP)
- New Study Shows All Those Gadgets in Your Automobile Cause Distractions (Planetizen)
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Utah Police Shooting Underscores the Added Threat Facing Black People on Bikes
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Police stopped Patrick Harmon for riding his bike without a rear light. When he attempted to flee, officer Clinton Fox shot him three times in the back.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Press, Legal Observers, Elected Officials Among Those Arrested by Police Wednesday (People’s World)
- People Protesting Police Spokesperson Briefly Blocked Roads (Post-Dispatch)
- Kansas City Residents to Vote Saturday on Streetcar Board of Directors (KC Star)
- Suspect Arrested in Lee’s Summit Hit-and-Run (Lee’s Summit Tribune)
- Missouri Gets Grant to Help Officials Figure Out Transpo Funding (News Press Now)
- Callaway County Commissioner Wants a New Road (Fulton Sun)
- MoDOT Wants Groups to Adopt Roundabouts for Beautification (News Tribune)
- Following London’s Lead, Will Other Cities Start Creating Bike “Superhighways”? (Treehugger)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Loop Trolley Sets Fares (Post-Dispatch)
- MoDOT Appoints a New St. Louis District Engineer (Boone Country Connection)
- Police Searching for Hit-and-Run Motorist in Lee’s Summit (Fox4KC)
- Driving Her Bike on the Busiest St. Louis Roads (Strong Towns)
- Speeding a Huge Problem on Page Boulevard (KMOV)
- Metro Answers Your Questions (Post-Dispatch)
- Washington U Encourages Sustainable Transportation (Student Life)
- How Americans Travel Changes With the Economy (Planetizen)
- Good Lighting Can Do More Than Make a Neighborhood Safer (CityLab)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Police Arrest More Than 100 Protesters Who Marched on Highway 64/40 (Fox2Now)
- South Grand Deemed One of APA’s Great Streets in 2017 (St. Louis Business Journal)
- City Officials Hope Louisiana “Calm Street” Model Is Just the Beginning (Amrank)
- Data Shows Traffic Fatality Rate in Columbia Worse Than New York City (ABC17)
- Find Out Why David Commutes by MetroLink (NextStop)
- Hyperloop Taps Missouri Groups to Help With Fundraising Efforts (Fox4KC)
- KC Star Explains Grand Boulevard’s Road Diet
- New Traffic Signals in Lee’s Summit Should Be Better for Everyone, Says MoDOT (KSHB)
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MoDOT Needs YOUR Input on 25-Year Transportation Priorities
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MoDOT is updating its 25-year transportation vision and needs input from people like YOU who walk and bicycle.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Metro East Great Streets Initiative Proposals Due by Oct. 18 (Illinois Business Journal)
- Kansas City Streetcar Route Sensors Collecting Usage Data and Sharing It for Free (Thinking Bigger)
- School District, MoDOT Can’t Come to Agreement on Safe Travel for School Busses (California Democrat)
- The Emergency Brake Is Not Just for Emergencies (KTVO)
- This Man on the Street Gives Everyone Who Passes Him a Brighter Start to the Day (St. Louis Public Radio)
- Congress’s Automated Vehicle Bill May Leave Out Any Local Control (T4America)
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Taco Bell Sans Drive-Thru
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This first Taco Bell Cantina, a franchise, is located in an old narrow building with apartments above.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Motorist Who Killed Albertia Russ Then Fled, Possibly Racing (Post-Dispatch)
- Motorist Betsy Stephenson Hits, Kills Kerry Allen in Springfield (Springfield News-Leader)
- Motorist Hits, Injures Cyclist Then Flees in Stoddard County (KFVS)
- Motorist Craig Glover Jr. Hits, Injures Kevin Humphrey in Jefferson City Saturday (News Tribune)
- Motorist Hits, Injures Hannibal Cyclist Joanne Knickerbocker in Pike County (WGEM)
- Louisiana Street in South City to be St. Louis’s First “Calm Street” (Post-Dispatch)
- Washington U Hosting Fair for Its Car-Free Commuters on October 5
- …As Well as Several Active Transpo Events Throughout October
- Blue Line MetroLink Passengers May Experience Delays This Week (NextStop)
- Springfield Starts a Pedestrian Safety Campaign (Missourinet)
- Millennials Say Making Springfield More Bike-Ped Friendly is Key (Springfield News-Leader)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Protestors Back on the Streets at Washington and Tucker (RFT)
- St. Louis Named “Focus City” for Pedestrian Fatalities by the Federal Highway Administration (Missourinet)
- MetroLink: The “No Headache” Way to Travel for Nicole (NextStop)
- Pedestrian Fatality Rate in Springfield Way Higher Than National Average (Ozarks First)
- There’s a Traffic Calming Plan for Armour Road in Kansas City (KC Star)
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Depends On Which Window Is Broken
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In the past two weeks, as St. Louisans took to the streets in order to send a message to their government and their courts, some voices chose to speak mostly of broken windows.