As Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants Gain Traction, Policy Makers Look To States Like Maryland

http://wamu.org/story/15/11/25/as_more_states_issue_licenses_for_undocumented_immigrants_they_look_to_states_like_maryland

Armando Trull

American University Radio (WAMU)

25 November 2015

Radio / Under 3 Minutes

Currently, the District of Columbia and 10 states, including Maryland, issue limited driving licenses to undocumented workers, with two more set to issue such licenses in the coming months.

Unmasked! The Mexico City superhero wrestling for pedestrians' rights

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/09/unmasked-mexico-city-superhero-wrestling-pedestrian-rights

Dulce Ramos

Sophie Hughes

The Guardian

9 November 2015

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Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure – the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streets.

How Did the Meadow Vole Cross the Road? Designing travel routes for wildlife

https://medium.com/re-form/how-did-the-meadow-vole-cross-the-road-21a0f0931418

Benjamin Goldfarb

re:form

9 October 2014

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As a state with robust populations of wildlife, Montana has had its share of roadkill. Its Department of Transportation developed animal shelving, a type of wildlife crossing, to enable safe passage for small animals who need to cross the road. The measure, combined with other types of crossings, has reduced animal-vehicle collisions by half.

Seniors Take Manhattan

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/senior-living-initiatives-ill-take-manhattan-114227#.VYmluvlViko

Debra Bruno

Politico

13 January 2015

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Cities tend to be dangerous and difficult places to live for older residents. A private public partnership in New York is catering to seniors through small changes in the city such as para-transit options and seniors-only hours at public establishments.

The Roads Scholar

https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.13/the-roads-scholar

Benjamin Goldfarb

High Country News

13 August 2014

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Many wildlife are killed each year as they are hit by cars when crossing highways. Montana built crossing structures over high risk sections of highways, such as grass covered tunnels, for animals to cross safely and reduce car accidents.

Why Sweden has so few road deaths

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-16

The Economist

The Economist

26 February 2014

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Sweden's "Vision Zero" program has used a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and regulation to drastically reduce traffic-related deaths, making Swedish roads the safest in the world.

There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find

http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/there-bicycle-economy-two-cities-find.html

A.K. Streeter

TreeHugger

2 October 2012

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Conventional merchants are afraid to lose parking spaces to bike parking or bike lanes. New York and Portland are finding cyclists increase local economies, and spend more money too.

The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later

http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/the-bicycle-revolution-in-paris-five-years-later

Julio Godoy

Inter Press Service News Agency

18 July 2012

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Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.

Birth Control for Bambi

http://undark.org/article/birth-control-for-bambi

Benjamin Goldfarb

Undark

15 April 2016

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The overpopulation of white-tailed deer is a conservation realization and an environmental disaster for the communities that harbor them. Hastings-on-Hudson, a progressive community, has opted for a humane birth control method PZP that is injected by darts into does. The method is successful for its non-lethal approach and the population growth has slowed, but as of yet has not significantly decreased.

Can Funny Traffic Signs Save Drivers' Lives?

http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-can-roadside-witticisms-save-lives.html

Daniel C. Vock

Governing

13 July 2015

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Traffic fatality rates are slowly climbing in today's world of texting-while-driving. But highway agencies are increasingly using humor and wit to try to get people to drive safer.