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Kochs must move their massive piles of tar-sands waste, Detroit mayor says
Petcoke has been piling up on Detroit's riverfront near a refinery processing tar-sands oil from Canada, but the city has finally had enough.
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Greatest Craiglist Missed Connections ad in history makes the train seem so much more romantic
It may be one of the loveliest pieces of public transit-related short fiction ever written.
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A tiny dead shark rides the New York subway
Not a Shark Week promotion. Not a subway publicity stunt. Just a small deceased fish drinking a Red Bull and riding the train.
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Bikes in Boston’s subway are guarded by a cardboard cop
And he's cut bike theft by 67 percent.
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Maps of never-realized urban planning projects show the cities that could have been
L.A. thought about rapid transit. New York could have had an expressway through the city. These maps show alternate-universe versions of infrastructure that never happened.
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Richard M. Daley wants to make your city more sustainable
The former Chicago mayor is launching a company to help cities pursue money-saving infrastructure investments.
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These are the weirdest bikeshare shenanigans we’ve ever seen
Recent fans of New York's bikeshare program include superheroes, overly ambitious mattress-movers, and a guy calling himself the Fat Jew.
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The dark side of Startup City
The tech economy is turning San Francisco upside down, but not every shiny new innovation is in the public interest.
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How to tell if your favorite park is infested with Satanists
We're all in favor of urban green space -- except when it's full of totally real, not made up Satanic cults.
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Climate-related power outages aren’t just a coastal problem
No American region has been exempt from the possibility of mass power outages.
