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The last two months have been heartbreaking for sustainable transportation professionals and advocates in Chicago and Boston, where two hauntingly similar bike crashes took the lives of well-loved Complete Streets planners Riley O’Neil and Louisa Gag.

But there’s reason to be hopeful that these tragedies will spur new political support for Vision Zero efforts in these cities, and possibly have a ripple effect across the country.

Read all about it — and check out the rest of today’s headlines — at the links below.

Tuesday’s Headlines Are a High Facts Zone
Tuesday’s Headlines Are a High Facts Zone
By Blake Aued
August 25, 2026
Low-emissions zones work, but public backlash makes some politicians reluctant to embrace them.
Philadelphia Figured Out to Stop Double Parking — Will Other Cities Follow Suit?
Philadelphia Figured Out to Stop Double Parking — Will Other Cities Follow Suit?
By Ren Zaro Fitzgerald
August 24, 2026
Philadelphia’s automated enforcement pilot has reduced double parking and cleared loading zones for commercial vehicles in the year since it launched.
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