• Tennessee grandma cited for letting little ones ride bikes on residential street
• Judge lets Texas teen off with just probation for killing four while driving drunk because he's too rich to know right from wrong
• No charges for commercial driver who was "too short" to see the pedestrian he killed
• Toronto cops blame 10 pedestrians for getting hit when two cars jump curb
• Cops fall prey to anti-cyclist bias in DC and Boston

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• Long Beach, where an underutilized stretch of freeway is getting converted into a park
• Rochester's Inner Loop, the noose that encircles downtown
• Dallas, where you could take 245 acres, now monopolized by IH345, and get 200 times more development potential out of it
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, where I-94 and I-35 mar two vibrant urban centers
• Niagara Falls, New York, where a highway disconnected residents from the natural beauty that surrounds them

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• Chicago business owner Jeff Judge, who won't re-locate anywhere that doesn't have protected bike lanes
• Amazon, which funded a protected bike lane near its Seattle HQ
• Denver business leader who says the single biggest obstacle to recruiting tech talent is the lack of bike lanes
• Portland fresh-food grocer who wants frequent, low-volume customers -- that is, those carrying groceries home on foot or by bike, not SUV
• ULI member real estate developers, who say bike-friendly buildings are the future
• In Portland, everyone from real estate developers to the basketball team supported green lanes

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• Ohio's new rule restricting pedestrians' rights to be in an intersection even when they have the signal (while other states expand that right)
• Scott Walker's Wisconsin, a magical place where it somehow makes sense to break the bank on highways even while driving rates diminish
• Highway-happy Texas DOT, which tried to block El Paso from using congestion mitigation and air quality funds for bike-share
• Oklahoma DOT, which ignored a federal warning that Tulsa is a death trap for pedestrians and rejected a grant opportunity to address the problem
• Connecticut, which despite an epidemic of deteriorating roads, wants to pour $500 million into three miles of road widening
• NC Gov. Pat McCrory, who, in his spare time from blocking streetcars, tries to ban use of state funds for transit and rail, earmarking all money for roads instead

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• New Haven, CT, guerrilla crosswalk painters whose vision is now official city policy
• The Miami "cone fairy" who takes traffic calming into her own mysterious hands
• “Reasonably Polite Seattleites,” who installed a protected bike lane on Cherry Street -- which the city then made permanent
• Retired Marine Anthony Cardenas, who got arrested for striping a new crosswalk in Vallejo, CA, to protect public safety
• Mr. Money Moustache, who preaches liberation from auto-dependence and long commutes as a path toward financial independence (and ridiculously early retirement)

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• The infrastructure bank
• The gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund
• Structurally deficient bridges
• The eternally-expiring transit tax benefit

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• All over the country, people are driving less, taking transit and biking more
• The U.S. bike-share fleet doubled between January and August and now stands at nearly 20,000 bikes
• Evidence is mounting that the recession and unemployment don't explain away the waning interest in driving
• Even the U.S. military establishment has fallen in love with smart growth
• More people are riding bikes -- and the riding public is beginning to look a lot more like America
• Kids these days just aren't that psyched to get their drivers licenses

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• Congress, for being so stubborn and unimaginative that they shut down the government for three weeks at a cost of $24 billion
• Sen. Rand Paul, for trying to kill a bike/ped program he's already weakened, and for everything else that's ever come out of his mouth
• The city of Baltimore, for running a 180-mph car race through the streets of downtown, at great risk and annoyance to pedestrians
• Virginia "Outer Beltway" Supporter Bob Chase, who believes you should build more of the same, even when the status quo is a huge, unsustainable mess
• Washington State Rep. Ed Orcutt, who said cyclists should be taxed because they cause pollution by exhaling

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