• Lakewood, Ohio, the city where every kid can walk to school
• Louisville, which saw crime fall when one-way streets were converted to two-way and has 100 miles of bike boulevards are in the works
• Houston, which just did a top-to-bottom redesign of its bus system to maximize efficiency and is making bike interstates out of its utility network
• Pittsburgh, whose mayor gets competitive about rolling out new bike lanes faster than most cities can even think of them

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• Bike signals and contraflow lanes finally get green light from engineering establishment
• California ditches Level of Service as part of its environmental law
• U.S. DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx makes bike/ped safety his signature initiative, calling it "critical to the future of the country"
• U.S. DOT publishes its own manuals on protected bike lanes and road diets

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• Sidewalk-jumping driver who claimed the children he hurt (and their family) were “reckless”
• Drunk driver who drove straight into a marathon for -- wait for it -- alcohol abuse awareness
• Driver who sued dead teen’s parents over her own ”great pain and suffering”
• YouTube star who got famous for threatening bicyclists and cackling about it
• Drunk driver in a stolen car who killed two, injured 23, when he crashed through barricades into SXSW arts festival crowd and then tried to run away

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• Four years after losing all transit service, Clayton County, Georgia, votes to tax itself and join regional transit authority
• Raleigh votes in pro-light-rail county commissioners, clearing the way, finally, for Research Triangle transit system
• Pennsylvania elects Tom Wolf governor, who intends to prioritize transit investment
• Aggressively pro-bike, pro-transit Peter DeFazio becomes top Democrat on House Transportation Committee

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• Seattle’s tunnel replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which was a colossally bad idea even before Bertha got stuck underground
• The Trinity Parkway, which would rob Dallas of the revitalization it craves and instead give it a six-lane urban highway justified by outdated traffic projections
• The Illiana Expressway in Illinois and Indiana, unlikely to attract the truckers it’s being built for and could soak taxpayers, despite being ostensibly private
• Despite stagnant VMT and a stated fix-it-first policy, Cleveland marches ahead with its destructive Opportunity Corridor
• Milwaukee’s hare-brained plan to double-deck and widen I-94 despite its exhorbitant cost, transit’s greater needs, and declining traffic

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• Making bike-share kid-friendly (and not getting sued for it)
• Rolling out more temporary, pop-up protected bike lanes to show people what they’re like
• Funding the Gateway Tunnel between New York and New Jersey before current tunnel deteriorates into oblivion, cutting off transit servic
• Adopting UN “high shift” scenario for reducing carbon emissions (and saving $100 trillion) by dramatically improving transit and active
• Focusing on bike-friendly intersections as the next frontier for safe streets
• Building Vision Zero into a national movement, not just a collection of localized campaigns

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• The polar vortex of 2014 gave rise to the “sneckdown” -- a way of seeing snow remaining on streets as areas that can be ceded back to pedestrians
• Uber's image somehow transformed from a shared-mobility revolution into an “asshole” hive of anti-public interest lobbying, sexual assault, and privacy violations
• TransitCenter and Frontier Group made lobbying for parity in commuter benefits seem a lot less useful than just getting rid of them altogether
• Painted bike lanes don’t impress like they used to -- even when they’re green -- if they’re not protected and safe enough for Isabella to ride

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• Western Avenue, Cambridge, MA
• Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
• E Street, San Bernardino, CA
• Broadway, Seattle
• Washington Avenue, Minneapolis

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