Today’s Headlines

Maryland Invites Private Investment to the Purple Line (GGW)
New Truck Safety Regulations Aren’t Enough to Placate Advocates (The Hill)
Less Freight Moving By Truck, More By Rail Among NAFTA Partners (JOC x2)
New Park Capping I-70 in St. Louis Re-Connects Arch With Downtown (Fast Lane)
Philly Is Turning Away From the Automobile, But Developers Can’t See It (NextCity)
A New Common Sense Alternative to the Moribund Columbia River Crossing (Bike Portland)
In Toronto, Office Rents Near Transit Are 38 Percent Higher, Vacancy Rates Lower (Globe & Mail)
How a Visionary Mayor’s Smart Policies Brought About a Walking Boom in London (Economist)
DC’s Most Walkable Neighborhood Finally Excises Its Gas Station (GGW)
Cars as Weapons (Atlantic Cities)

Elliott Mason

Interesting discussion of how the Nice Way Code is communicating about bikes in a way mostly understandable to drivers … but not in a way that will get cyclists to actually change what they’re doing, because they’re not doing it in the ways/for the reasons the Nice Way campaigners think: http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/the-psychology-of-riding-on-the-pavement-and-jumping-red-lights/