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Mobility advocates say the city must do more to make transit and alternative transportation modes more convenient for drivers.

October 5 - Streetsblog New York City

An analysis of searches for walking directions shows dramatic increases in walking in cities across the country.

October 4 - CommercialCafe

Although intercity buses provide a crucial service to millions of Americans, the industry has been shut out of recent pandemic assistance programs while riders continue to experience dismal facilities and shrinking service options.

October 4 - Governing

The most vaccinated state in the U.S. may tell us where the future of the country is headed in the war against the coronavirus. Could it become a 'pandemic of the vaccinated'?

October 4 - WPTZ

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Actual demand for a place's housing might exceed increases in the number of residents or households.

October 4 - Michael Lewyn

County officials claim the region has not seen improved transit service despite the infusion of federal funding aimed at increasing service in small urbanized areas.

October 4 - Colorado Public Radio

The Boston City Council approved a new ordinance would eliminate emissions from the 4 percent of the buildings responsible for 60 percent of the city's building emissions.

October 4 - Smart Cities Dive

Planning is politics, an Atlanta case study.

October 4 - SaportaReport

Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014 set a goal to eliminate traffic fatalities from New York City. Now, with de Blasio preparing to leave office, more people are dying on the city's streets than when he made that announcement.

October 4 - The New York Times

A recent survey of Seattle voters finds widespread support for the continued expansion of the Link light rail system in Seattle.

October 3 - Seattle Transit Blog

The one-year moratorium is a stopgap measure to assist homeowners affected by recent wildfires as the state assesses ways of addressing the root causes of increasingly damaging natural disasters.

October 3 - Sacramento Bee

Bloomberg Philanthropies is funding projects that take an artistic approach to traffic safety.

October 3 - Bloomberg Philanthropies

An estimated 20 percent of the stores to open so far in 2021 are Dollar Generals.

October 3 - Retail Dive

While zoning reforms can help reduce barriers to building more housing, high construction costs and local opposition mean that the state won't see an immediate boom in density.

October 1 - Slate

Although some cities are in favor of removing or reducing urban freeways in favor of more walkable spaces, guidelines like the 11-year-old MUTCD still encourage a 'throughput at all costs' mentality.

October 1 - Governing

With peak hour commuter travel not expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, Metro Transit is getting creative in its efforts to attract new riders.

October 1 - MinnPost

As the new world order of working from home and vaccine hesitancy settles in, it's time to reevaluate assumptions from early in the pandemic about the effect of the public health on the economic health of large cities.

October 1 - Business Insider

A pair of recent surveys attempt to shed light on the changing business and property management practices of landlords during the pandemic.

September 30 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

The time to start preparing for mass migration spurred by climate change is already here.

September 30 - Quartz

One of Southwest Ohio's most urgent infrastructure projects would move forward if the SORTA board approves a recent proposal to allocate Issue 7 funding to the replacement plan for the Western Hills Viaduct.

September 30 - Cincinnati Enquirer