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Today’s lead story looks at the fight being taken on my Missourians to get their state to support the needs of people outside cars. Advocates at Missourians for Responsible Transportation are in the final days of a campaign to get the Missouri Department of Transportation to adopt a “statewide active transportation plan,” which proponents say is among the most critical missing puzzle pieces necessary to solve the state’s traffic violence crisis and reap the broader benefits of a truly multimodal transportation system.

After Texas finally adopted its own plan last year, Missouri became the most populous state of the remaining four that still don’t have that critical document on the books, despite the fact that nearly one-third of its residents don’t have a driver’s license.

Read more — and today’s other news headlines — at the links below:

  • ‘Diversity; in Transportation Planning is Under Attack — But These Experts Say It’s More Important Now Than Ever 
    by Kea Wilson
    September 23, 2026
    Minority-owned planning firms are as essential as they ever were, these four top experts argue — no matter what the White House says.
  • Transgender Americans Harassed on Transit at High Rate, But Problem Goes Unrecognized: Study
    by ren1
    September 23, 2026
    Nearly 6 in 10 transgender respondents in a new study say that they’ve faced harassment onboard.
  • Where the Battles Against Harmful Highways and Hyper-Scale Data Centers Collide
    by Kea Wilson
    September 22, 2026
    Hyperscale AI data centers and highways are both harmful forms of fossil fuel infrastructure that get built without much community input — and it’s time to fight back against both, one of our favorite podcasters argues.
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