Friday’s Headlines

12:01 AM EDT on August 2, 2019

Cities built way too many roads, and now they can’t afford to maintain them. (Strong Towns)
A bipartisan transportation bill breezed through a Senate committee (Politico). Transportation for America praised aspects of the bill but said it doesn’t go far enough, while some conservatives are resisting raising the gas tax.
Children should be included in transportation planning, especially Safe Routes to School programs. (Saporta Report)
What do Democrats mean when they talk about infrastructure? (City Lab)
Nashville's mayoral race is headed to a runoff, with incumbent David Briley, who supported a failed referendum on transit last year, the underdog against city councilman John Cooper, who opposed it. (Tennessean)
Lyft is pulled its e-bikes off San Francisco streets to look at their battery packs after two caught fire. (KPIX)
Uber and Lyft drivers are sleeping in their cars in San Francisco. (The Bold Italic)
The transit focus in Miami is shifting from buses back to rail. A proposed monorail would eventually run to Fort Lauderdale, but officials are also interested in maglev trains, and smaller surrounding towns are lobbying Tri-Rail and Virgin Trains for stations. (SunSentinel)
Columnists call on the Seattle to finish the Center City streetcar. (Seattle Times)
The Boston Transportation Department is adding 50 new bike-share stations (Patch). Lime is bringing e-scooters to Rochester, N.Y. (Fox 47). Milwaukee is expanding its bike-share to include adaptive cycles for people of all abilities (Fox 6).
"Jitney buses" like those in Harrisburg, Penn., were the Uber of the early 1900s. (Penn Live)
Washington City Paper's biking advice columnist, Gear Prudence, is riding off into the sunset. It's sad.

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