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The Trump Administration is still holding back billions of dollars in funding for public transit. (Curbed, Streetsblog) Cities need new infrastructure to handle the rise of e-commerce as deliveries add to congestion. (Bloomberg) Google Maps is now displaying bike-share docks in 24 cities. (Engadget) A Blue Line power shutdown on Wednesday and last month’s Red … Continued

By Blake Aued

12:01 AM EDT on July 19, 2019

The Trump Administration is still holding back billions of dollars in funding for public transit. (Curbed, Streetsblog)
Cities need new infrastructure to handle the rise of e-commerce as deliveries add to congestion. (Bloomberg)
Google Maps is now displaying bike-share docks in 24 cities. (Engadget)
A Blue Line power shutdown on Wednesday and last month’s Red Line derailment show that Boston’s T is in crisis, say transit advocates, who are asking Mayor Martin Walsh for more funding. (Herald)
Minneapolis has received a grant from the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge to build two bus-only lanes. (Southwest Journal)
Washington state is considering shifting from a gas tax to taxing drivers by the mile. (Tacoma News Tribune)
The Washington, D.C. suburb of Arlington County, Va. has passed a Vision Zero resolution, but offered few details on how it intends to meet that goal. (ARL Now)
Last week, we linked to a story on how the homeless are affected by cities reducing parking spaces. San Francisco recently set aside a parking lot for people who live in vans or RVs. (Chronicle)
A Detroit man spent three nights in jail after police threw him to the ground and arrested him while he was crossing the street. (WXYZ)
A Cleveland driver had a completely rational response to a cyclist who reminded him of the rules of the road. Just kidding, he flipped out. (Scene)

Blake Aued

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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