Monday’s Headlines
Miami-Dade is spending a tax meant for expanding transit on existing services, and one city transit board is trying to redirect $95 million toward its intended purpose of new projects. (Herald) Unsurprisingly, DC drivers are ignoring “pop up” bus lanes and using them as regular car lanes instead. (WaPo) Cobb County is the lone holdout … Continued
By
Blake Aued
10:04 AM EDT on August 27, 2018
- Miami-Dade is spending a tax meant for expanding transit on existing services, and one city transit board is trying to redirect $95 million toward its intended purpose of new projects. (Herald)
- Unsurprisingly, DC drivers are ignoring “pop up” bus lanes and using them as regular car lanes instead. (WaPo)
- Cobb County is the lone holdout among Atlanta suburbs in seeking to improve transit. That’s probably because no political leader has stepped up to champion it. (AJC)
- A Seattle city council member doesn’t believe riders would take advantage of the connectivity the Central City streetcar and thinks it would cannibalize bus ridership. (Seattle Times)
- Meanwhile, Sound Transit ridership is up 6 percent in the second quarter of 2018. (Suburban Times)
- A nonprofit in downtown Tampa has thrown its support behind a 1 percent sales tax for transportation on the November ballot. (Florida Politics)
- A new light rail line is a convenient way for University of North Carolina-Charlotte students to get to class, but instead many are still circling for an hour looking for parking. (WSOC)
- St. Louis’ Loop Trolley, delayed four years already, could finally open this fall. (Post-Dispatch)
- City Lab gets existential, asking, “What’s a bike lane?” (as Streetsblog did last week.) Some transit experts think roads need three types of lanes based on speed, not necessarily mode.
- Conservatives keep comparing campaign finance violations to jaywalking, but we’re pretty sure what Michael Cohen did was much worse. (PolitiFact)
Blake Aued has been doing Streetsblog's daily national news digest for years. He's also an Atlanta Braves fan, which enrages his editor in New York.
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