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Tuesday’s Sprawling Headlines

Sprawl seems to be having a moment, but it remains a very shortsighted and environmentally disastrous way to solve the housing crisis.

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This is the future that liberals want?

  • Left-leaning writers are starting to join conservatives onboard the pro-sprawl bandwagon as they look for solutions to a shortage of housing. Yet it's still the case that sprawl destroys natural areas and farms, and leads to more roads, more cars and more pollution. (CityLab)
  • The Eno Center for Transportation outlines the many changes the Trump administration has made to discretionary grant programs.
  • Smart loading zones where delivery and rideshare drivers reserve curb space through apps can help cities manage an increasingly scarce resource and drastically reduce double-parking. (Smart Cities Dive)
  • Cars don't have to be moving to kill leaving a child in one for just a few minutes on a hot day can be deadly. (Jalopnik)
  • A bill clearing the way for a metro Charlotte transportation tax referendum overwhelmingly passed the North Carolina Senate. (WFAE)
  • Wired interviews an Austin lawmaker who wants the Texas legislature to exert more control over Tesla robotaxis.
  • An impasse over transit funding is one reason why Pennsylvania's state budget is late for the fourth year in a row. (Penn Live)
  • Philadelphia is planning safety improvements at an intersection where a truck driver killed a cyclist last month. (WHYY)
  • Boise elementary school students are lobbying to replace pedestrian flags with rapid flashing beacons at a crash-prone intersection. (KTVB)
  • Boulder ended parking mandates for new developments citywide. (Reporting Lab)
  • Vancouver's TransLink is buying 100 battery-electric buses to replace diesel models. (Metro Magazine)
  • These "bike mayors" may not have been elected, but they're the face of cycling for cities worldwide. (Region to Be Cheerful)

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