Thursday’s Headlines
Treehugger wants to replace bike lanes with “mobility lanes” for everyone who’s on wheels but not in a car — maybe even joggers, too. The Supreme Court is expected to rule today on whether the Trump Administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The answer could affect how much federal funding communities … Continued
By
Blake Aued
7:47 AM EDT on June 27, 2019
- Treehugger wants to replace bike lanes with “mobility lanes” for everyone who’s on wheels but not in a car — maybe even joggers, too.
- The Supreme Court is expected to rule today on whether the Trump Administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The answer could affect how much federal funding communities get for transportation and other needs. (Dallas Morning News)
- Forget luxury amenities like climbing walls and lazy rivers — all college students want today is parking for Uber and GrubHub. (NY Times)
- Waze has a new app that helps commuters find carpool partners. (City Lab)
- A Florida bill that requires voting sites to have sufficient parking could keep college students away from the polls in 2020. (HuffPost)
- Supporters overcame a lot of uninformed arguments to get a bill passed allowing cyclists in Oregon to treat stop signs as yield signs. (Bike Portland)
- Protected bike lanes make streets safer for everyone, and Milwaukee needs more of them. (On Milwaukee)
- Dallas got as little warning when Uber pulled 2,000 JUMP bikes out of the city as it did when Uber dropped them in. (Morning News)
- Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley prefers off-street bike trails to bike lanes. Which is the better path? (City Beat)
- Opponents of Minneapolis’s Southwest light rail line have seized on bee habitats as their latest tactic to stall the project. (WCCO)
- Bikelash can even hit the lefty utopia of Burlington, Vt. (VT Digger)
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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