Thursday’s Headlines
Cities can reduce transportation costs for schools by offering students free bus passes. (Education Dive) Uber wants to be a one-stop shop for car, bike, scooter, bus and train trips, and Denver is the guinea pig. (New York Times) Phoenix is the latest city where the Koch brothers are bankrolling a dark-money campaign to halt … Continued
By
Blake Aued
6:53 AM EDT on August 8, 2019
- Cities can reduce transportation costs for schools by offering students free bus passes. (Education Dive)
- Uber wants to be a one-stop shop for car, bike, scooter, bus and train trips, and Denver is the guinea pig. (New York Times)
- Phoenix is the latest city where the Koch brothers are bankrolling a dark-money campaign to halt public transportation projects. (New Times)
- Portland has seen a surge in older residents being killed by drivers while crossing the street. (Willamette Week)
- Honolulu is trying to take over a troubled light-rail project from the Hawaii state government. (Civil Beat)
- A Nashville union has endorsed challenger John Cooper in the Nashville mayor’s race, citing his support for complete streets, infrastructure and transit upgrades. (Tennessean)
- Cincinnati city councilmembers are laying the groundwork on a referendum for a new sales tax to fund transit. (WCPO)
- Birmingham voters smartly rejected a $57-million plan for a city-funded parking deck. (Hometown Life)
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s woefully inadequate Vision Zero plan — as covered regularly by Streetsblog NYC — gets some national attention from Outside magazine.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Indianapolis’s bus rapid transit Red Line, but were afraid to ask. (Star)
- Artist Quiang Huang makes furniture out of discarded bike-share bikes that would otherwise wind up in the landfill. (Curbed)
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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