LOCAL
• Traffic map uses mobile phone data to track busy routes in Metro Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
• Compass system will be cheaper for bus-to-SkyTrain transfers, TransLink says [Globe and Mail]
CASCADIA
• Seattle’s bike-lane bigotry: Master planned? [Crosscut]
• San Francisco Bay Area Gears Up for Bike Sharing [Environment News Service]
• California Ushers in New Rail Age [Future Cities]
• San Francisco Has a ‘Transparent’ Mural: Now You See It, Now You Don’t [The Atlantic Cities]
INTERNATIONAL
• Crawlable Urbanism: Cities Are for Kids, Too [DC.Streetsblog]
• Arid Southwest Cities’ Plea: Lose the Lawn [The Seattle Times]
• A Strangely Beautiful Map of Race in America [The Atlantic Cities]
• Earth’s central heating is thinning Greenland [New Scientist]
• Electric cars not cleanest option for some states, report says [The Seattle Times]
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