Friday’s Headlines Are About the ‘Burbs
Suburban towns are correcting their car-centric mistakes.
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EST on November 13, 2026
- Thirty years after the movement’s founding, New Urbanism is winning the war against sprawl (Fast Company). Across the country, car-centric suburban mainstays like malls, golf courses and parking lots are being turned into walkable mixed-use neighborhoods (Yale Climate Connections)
- Zoning reform to address the climate and housing affordability won’t do much good without parking reform. (The Friendly City Urbanist)
- More about this month’s successful local transit referendums. (Transportation for America)
- The Trump administration nominated a consultant and former American Public Transportation Association board member to head the Federal Transit Administration. (Mass Transit)
- Transit agencies in Los Angeles and Chicago are deploying cameras on buses to catch drivers illegally in bus-only lanes. (Government Technology)
- Without additional funding, the Oregon DOT would cut transit funding by 20 percent, bike and pedestrian projects by 40 percent, and traffic deaths would rise 15 percent. (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- A new Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority program connects users to assistance with housing, addiction and mental health. (Metro)
- An Albuquerque jaywalking stop that ended in a police shooting was caught on video by a “Cops” production crew. (News Nation)
- Las Vegas transit is getting better, but it’s still mainly focused on downtown and the Strip. (Weekly)
- A new on-demand van service connects Phoenix residents to fixed-route transit. (KTAR)
- Foot traffic, subway usage and visitor spending all rose when London closed Oxford Street to cars. (The Standard)
- The Transit Brief declared Sydney’s transit system the best in the English-speaking world.
- Mexico City is spending $1 billion to optimize traffic signals, reducing congestion and emissions and prioritizing transit. (Mexico Business News)
Blake Aued has been doing Streetsblog's daily national news digest for years. He's also an Atlanta Braves fan, which enrages his editor in New York.
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