Thursday’s Headlines
Houston and Galveston have received almost 200 requests from communities for a share of $1 billion in state and federal transportation funding for projects ranging from road upgrades to bike and pedestrian infrastructure to better transit. (Houston Public Media) Over 80 percent of crashes involving drivers and bikes in Minneapolis happened on just 3 percent … Continued
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EST on January 24, 2019
- Houston and Galveston have received almost 200 requests from communities for a share of $1 billion in state and federal transportation funding for projects ranging from road upgrades to bike and pedestrian infrastructure to better transit. (Houston Public Media)
- Over 80 percent of crashes involving drivers and bikes in Minneapolis happened on just 3 percent of streets. (Southwest Journal)
- The Denver Streets Partnership gives the city a gentleman’s C on Vision Zero implementation. (Denverite)
- City Beat has more detail on Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley’s plans to protect pedestrians.
- Uber’s lawyers are challenging Lyft’s bike-share monopoly in the Bay Area. (San Francisco Examiner)
- A new member of Washington State’s C-Tran transit agency board is pushing back against plans for light rail to Oregon. (The Reflector)
- The Verge and Gizmodo ask what you’ve probably been asking about Uber’s plans for self-driving bikes and scooters: Why?
- U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos broke her hip in what the New York Post describes, without details, as a cycling “accident.” We wish DeVos a speedy recovery.
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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