- Democratic Gains in Virginia Provide Hope for Dedicated DC Metro Funding (Post)
- Tacoma Light Rail Construction Will Start Next Year (KING)
- Feds Tell Minneapolis to Tweak Light-Rail Wall (Star-Tribune)
- Buffalo Neighborhood Tells Drivers to Stay Out of Bike Lanes (WKBW)
- Portland Streetcar Will Have Dedicated Lane (Willamette Week)
- New Cincinnati Council Members Support Adding Bus Service (WCPO)
- Milwaukee Residents Worry Streetcar Will Gentrify Neighborhoods (Urban Milwaukee)
- For Folks in Wheelchairs, Broken Sidewalks Can Be Deadly (Bitter Southerner)
- Self-Driving Buses Not Quite Ready for Prime Time (Fortune)
- Uber’s Supposedly Working on a Flying Taxi Because of Course It Is (The Verge)
The Uber flying car article includes a screenshot showing how flying compares favorable against their own UberX which takes 1 hour, 20 minutes to travel from LAX to the Staples Center in downtown. The irony is that bicycling is also faster than UberX. UberBike anyone?
The conversion (finally!) of one of Toronto’s busiest streetcar routes to a transit-priority corridor is a very relevant experiment for several US cities that have surface rail operating in mixed traffic.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/12/streetcars-now-rule-the-road-along-king-st-in-downtown-core.html