Today’s Headlines
- U.S. DOT Makes $266 Million in Bus Funding Available (Mass Transit Magazine)
- Senators: D.C. Metro Needs $150 Million to Deal With Safety Issues (Roll Call)
- U.S. Conference of Mayors Commends Anthony Foxx’s New Focus on Opportunity (eurweb)
- Orange County Streetcar Moving Closer to Design and Construction (Mass Transit Magazine)
- Suburban Detroiters Resist BRT Plans (The Oakland Press)
- Smart Growth Advocate to Run Against Detroit Suburbs’ “Sprawl King” (The Oakland Press)
- SFGate: Sometimes Bikes Slow Down Cars and That’s Okay
- A Pregnant Woman Explains Why She’s Still Pedaling (Momentum)
- Miami-Dade’s $115M Plan to Modernize Transit Has Turned Into a Bus-vs-Rail Fight (Miami Herald)
“This generation is not interested in building more freeways so they can commute from jobs in the city to the far reaches of the county,” [Vicki Barnett] said in a press release announcing her candidacy. “They want an effective and reliable transit system, abundant parks and greenspaces, and vibrant, walkable communities that they can call home.”
That’s shocking to hear from a Michigan politician.
Genius line from the SF Gate column:
Slightly delaying other people isn’t specific to bikes, after all; it’s just a fact of life in a world with other people in general and life in a dense city in particular. When I’m in line at the grocery store, for example, the person behind me would get to buy her groceries more quickly if I weren’t there. Out on the road, 21% of all cars are white and 8% are blue, so it wouldn’t be wrong to say that blue cars are slowed down by white cars; if all those white cars suddenly vanished, the blue cars could go faster. But the shopper in back of me doesn’t demand that I step aside so that she can get her groceries faster, and blue car drivers don’t argue that white cars clog up the road and should get out of the way. To think otherwise, to believe that other people should get out of the way, or off the road, simply because they’re other people, requires a kind of mildly deranged solipsism.