Weekly Transportation News

Transit:

1. PolicyLink: Healthy Corridor for All: A Community Health Impact Asessment of Transit-Oriented Development Policy in Saint Paul, Minnesota
2. Finance & Commerce: Met Council Close to Deal on LRT Office Space (subscription required)
3. Pioneer Press: Minnesota: High-Speed Rail to Chicago to Likely Go Through Milwuakee
4. Atlantic Cities: Transit Stations May Actually Cut Down on Crime

Bike/Walk:

1. Atlantic Cities: A Plan to Make Drivers Hate Downtown Dublin 
2. SF Streets Blog: New Bill Could Free CA Planners to Use More Innovative Bikeway Designs 
3. Streets.MN: Is it Time to Remove Those Pesky Skyways?
4. Autopia: New System Uses Radar to Detect Bicylclists at Intersections 
5. TC Daily Planet/MN 2020: Bank Cards and Bike-sharing 
6. Chicks on Bikes Radio: Bikeable Cities
7. Atlantic Cities: What Neighborhoods Need to Succeed at Walkability

Roads/Bridges:

1. New York Times: In Madrid's Heart, Park Blooms Where a Freeway Once Blighted
2. MPR: Stillwater Bridge Still High on Bachmann's Agenda
3. Winona Daily News: Winona Bridge Still Headed Toward Rehabilitation 
4. Mankato Free Press: Many Still Not Convinced About Roundabout Benefits 
5. Streetsblog Los Angeles: The Freeways Are Not So Nice
6. Atlantic Cities: The Tricky Second Wave of Urban Highway Removals

Other:

1. New York Times: Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces
2. Salon: The $88 Million View
3. Finance & Commerce: Haigh Hits on 2011 Highs (subscription required)
4. Atlantic Cities: The Best Smart Growth Projects in America
5. Transportation Experts: The Health Impacts of Transportation