Walking

• In Defense of Jaywalking - Tom Vanderbilt - Slate
• Mobility and Safety arguments for jaywalking - CART
• 'creative jaywalking is an environmental positive' - CarFreeInBigD
• Quote of the Day - Pedestrianist
• Sprucing up main sidewalks seems to pay off for cities - Columbus Dispatch

Bicycling

• Louisville's Lonely Bike Racks - She Rides a Bike
• The League of American Bicyclists' blog dismantles the recent USA Today anti-cycling rant - bikeleague.org

Motoring

• car enthusiasm may no longer be a part of Americans’ DNA - NYTimes.com

Rail

• Cinci's Streetcar Weathers Ballot Test - cincinnati.com
• Warren Buffet buys one of the big four railways. Is this an investment in clean freight, or an admission that the country's tied to coal forever? Streetsblog

Land Use

• Has the Government been bailing out Sprawl? Streetsblog

Deadly Transportation

Reader SushiK sends along this table, from the National Safety Council. It shows the lifetime odds of dying from:

• Motor-vehicle accident….1 in 84
• Pedestrian….1 in 627
• Pedalcyclist…1 in 4,111