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8:54 AM EDT on May 18, 2016

    • Barcelona's "Superblocks" Concept Would Limit Cars to Major Thoroughfares (Guardian)
    • Top 5 "Infrastructure Emergencies" Include Metrorail, Gateway Tunnel (The Hill)
    • Denver Highway Opponents Protest Outside Anthony Foxx's "Smart City" Visit to Denver (Denver Post)
    • Kansas City Streetcar Carried 57,000 Riders Its First Week (KC Star)
    • Google to Patent "Flypaper" Innovation to Protect Pedestrians Hit By Self-Driving Cars (Mercury News)
    • Pima County to Limit How Long Pedestrians Can Stand in the Median (Arizona Daily Star)
    • The West's Natural Lands Are Disappearing to Sprawl (Huffington Post)
    • Houston Mayor Wants Residents to Embrace More Than Cars (Chronicle)
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Angie Schmitt is the author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and the former editor of Streetsblog USA.

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