The Persistent Racial Disparities of Motor Vehicle Pollution
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While tailpipe emissions have been lowered across the board, racial disparities persist in exposure to fine particles from motor vehicles.
CBAs: What We Have, What We Don’t, and What We Should
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a Community Benefit Agreement is a legally binding contract, entered into by the developer(s) of a property, or group of properties, and community groups and individual stakeholders in the community surrounding the development.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- It Might Not Be Politics as Usual in St. Louis Anymore (Post-Dispatch)
- From Bike-Share to Wider Sidewalks, Forest Park Hosting Open House Thursday for Improvements (Post-Dispatch)
- Semi-Truck Driver Injures Pedestrian in Holt County (SJ Post)
- No Suspect in Shooting Robbery of MetroBus Driver (KSDK)
- Ideas Already Afloat for What Kansas City’s Former Transit Center Will Become (KCUR)
- British Study Finds Link Between Obesity and Living in the Suburbs, But Not Rural Areas (Planetizen)
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Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Why the Fight for Better Transit Is Part of the Fight for Racial Equity (CityLab)
- Whatever Kirkwood’s Future Plan Holds, We Hope it Includes Quality Bike/Ped Infrastructure (Webster-Kirkwood Times)
- Know Which Streets Are Closed for This Weekend’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon (Fox2Now)
- MoDOT: “The Highway Trust Fund Must Provide Long-Term Sustainable-Revenue Solutions” (Transportation Today)
- Ride-Hailing Adversely Affects Other Transpo Options, Says a New Study (Planetizen)
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Talking Headways Podcast: Catching Up With Congressmember Earl Blumenauer
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Blumenauer discusses how Rail~Volution got its start, how we can use congestion pricing and road user charges to pay for transportation, Vision Zero, and why urbanists should be thinking about the Farm Bill.
Meet the Lawyer Taking on His State’s Highway Lobby — And Winning
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To combat racial segregation and disparities in public health, attorney Dennis Grzezinski is confronting the state's penchant for road expansion.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- The Loop Trolley Doesn’t Add Up (St. Louis Business Journal)
- Two-Car Crash Results in One Death, One Pedestrian Injured in Moniteau County (Lake News)
- Same Old Story, Different Day as Task Force Goes Back and Forth on Missouri Transpo Funding (Missourinet)
- Federal Penalties for Letting Car Passengers Drink Have Imposed Some Discipline on MoDOT (News-Leader)
- Washington University Backs Chouteau Greenway (theSource)
- RideFinders Gives Out Awards, Find Out More About RideFinders at Two Upcoming Events (Riverbender)
- Kansas City Welcoming New Bike Lanes (KCTV5)
- Seanta Uses Metro Transit for School (NextStop)
- Justin Doesn’t Think Kansas City Residents Would Use Transit If a New Stadium Gets Built (Fanside)
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Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not.
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Bill Schultheiss, a transportation engineer with Toole Design Group, is challenging his profession to uphold its ethical standards.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- $1M Grant Aims to Create Safer Neighborhood With Police Partnership, Better Street Infra (St. Louis American)
- Fourth Week of Protests Continues on St. Louis Streets (Post-Dispatch)
- Metro Market Is at the North Hanley MetroLink StationToday (CMT)
- Study: How Climate Changes Adversely Affect Midwest Transpo Infrastructure (Chicago Tribune)
- Treehugger Notes 83 Percent of Traffic Fatalities Are Because of Choices the Motorist, Passengers Make
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America Hasn’t Seen a Spike in Traffic Deaths This Bad in 50 Years
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America's traffic safety record is going from bad to worse -- and federal transportation officials aren't speaking up about it.
St. Louis Expects Lots of Car Lanes Because of Harland Bartholomew
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Bartholomew, like his better-known contemporary, NYC’s Robert Moses, believed it was necessary to destroy the city to save it from itself. Everything prior to the 20th century was wrong for the modern world of the automobile.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- St. Louis Business Journal (Paywall) on the Loop Trolley
- Making Main Street More Pedestrian Friendly Running Into Snags in Joplin (KOAM)
- Traffic Fatalities in Northeast Missouri on the Rise (Kirksville Daily Express)
- This Week’s MetroLink Construction Schedule (NextStop)
- Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan Nowhere to Be Seen (NPR)
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