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Despite their advantages, it takes some deft messaging to get Americans to accept roundabouts, CityLab reports.

Still from Bicycle Dutch.|

Carmel, Indiana is famous for its 150 roundabouts.

  • Can Americans learn to stop worrying and love the roundabout? After all, they save lives, reduce congestion and cut emissions. But without proper communication, people just don't like change. (CityLab)
  • Effective transit is a popular issue for leftists to run on, which is why conservatives try to undermine it at every turn. (The New Republic)
  • Commercial flights accounts for 4 percent of global carbon emissions, and one expert doesn't see an easy way to decarbonize the airline industry except to stop flying. (New York Times)
  • Climate activist Bill McKibben lauds President Jimmy Carter as a clean energy visionary. (New Yorker)
  • The National Association of City Transportation Officials is out with a new urban bikeway design guide.
  • A waterfront development near San Francisco's Oracle Park is one of the most pedestrian-friendly urban spaces in the nation. (Fast Company)
  • Many cities were ripped apart by Urban Renewal, but New Haven more than most. Governing takes a deep dive into what it's doing to turn a sea of freeways and parking decks back into a downtown.
  • California state lawmakers are mounting a last-ditch effort to finalize federal funding for transit projects before the Trump administration takes over and cancels the grants. (Mass Transit)
  • An anti-streetcar group thinks driverless pods are the answer to Atlanta Beltline transit. (AJC)
  • The Washington state DOT is proposing to expand intercity bus service. (The Urbanist)
  • Miami-Dade is looking for someone to run the new Northeast Corridor railway when it opens in 2027. (Miami Today)
  • Streets.mn argues for funding local transit service in Minnesota over flashier, more expensive projects like high-speed intercity rail.
  • Car crashes have killed more than 300 people since Sacramento committed to Vision Zero in 2017 as the city has failed to fund the initiative. (Bee)
  • Indianapolis received a $159 million federal grant for the Blue Line bus rapid transit project. (Fox 59)
  • Arizona State University is partnering with cities to provide shade in a region where temperatures routinely top 100 degrees. (Inside Climate News)
  • Fourteen Dutch cities have created no-emissions zones where polluting freight vehicles are prohibited. (Zag Daily)
  • Bike usage doubled in Paris between 2022 and 2023 — proof that if you build it, they will come. (Momentum)

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