Monday’s Headlines
Remember playing in the streets and scattering when a car came by? Pittsburgh residents are exploring new ways for pedestrians to share the streets with vehicles. And they’re not alone: It’s happening in the UK and the Netherlands, too. (Public Source) A new Lyft carpooling service offers riders the app’s lowest prices if they’re willing … Continued
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EST on February 25, 2019
- Remember playing in the streets and scattering when a car came by? Pittsburgh residents are exploring new ways for pedestrians to share the streets with vehicles. And they’re not alone: It’s happening in the UK and the Netherlands, too. (Public Source)
- A new Lyft carpooling service offers riders the app’s lowest prices if they’re willing to walk a few blocks to be picked up and after they get out. (Fortune)
- A town hall meeting on the Durham-Orange, N.C. light rail line aimed to bring Duke University back into the fold (Chronicle), but new opposition is cropping up (Daily Tarheel).
- Metro Transit has rolled out the Twin Cities’ first electric bus in advance of a new bus rapid transit line that starts service in June. (Star Tribune)
- Talks between the Trump Administration and California to resolve a dispute over the EPA’s effort to relax tailpipe emissions and fuel economy standards have broken down. Next stop, the courts. (Governing)
- Get ready for Phase II of the Seattle Squeeze: Hundreds of downtown buses will be rerouted from a tunnel to surface streets. (Post-Intelligencer)
- Lime is pulling all of its bikes from eight Bay Area cities (KCBS) and Rockford, Ill. (Star) and wants to replace them with scooters. Dockless bike-shares are also pulling out of Great Britain, leading the Guardian to wonder if they can ever be sustainable?
- A Tennessean columnist who railed against reckless e-scooter drivers has changed his mind. Now he says Nashville’s problem is unsafely designed streets.
- Shockingly, Ohio drivers want better roads, but don’t want to pay for them. (Dayton Daily News)
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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