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Even cutting back driving by 10 percent would have a big impact on climate change — the equivalent of taking 28 coal-fired power plants offline if every American did it. (New York Times) Fresh off the defeat of Prop 105, which would have canceled plans for future light-rail expansion, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego is floating … Continued

By Blake Aued

8:00 AM EDT on September 3, 2019

Even cutting back driving by 10 percent would have a big impact on climate change — the equivalent of taking 28 coal-fired power plants offline if every American did it. (New York Times)
Fresh off the defeat of Prop 105, which would have canceled plans for future light-rail expansion, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego is floating an extension of a half-penny sales tax for rail and other transportation projects. (AZ Family)
Could Milwaukee be the next target of a Koch-funded attack on transit? (Independent)
Warning of a “scooternado,” Miami ordered thousands of dockless e-scooters secured as Hurricane Dorian approached to prevent them from becoming dangerous projectiles flung around by 130 miles-per-hour winds. (Reuters)
Denver residents want transit to be cheaper, faster and go more places. (Colorado Public Radio)
Austin’s Capitol Metro is reminding drivers to stay out of bus lanes and bike boxes. (Spectrum News)
The city taking over Cincinnati’s troubled streetcar would cost over $550,000. (WCPO)
Cedar Rapids’ bike-share program is adding scooters (KCRG). Concerns about Gotcha’s plans to bring 250 e-bikes to Flagstaff prompted the city council to immediately reverse its decision to award the company a contract (Arizona Daily Sun). Trump’s tariffs and tech problems have delayed the deployment of e-bikes in Sacramento suburbs (Bee).
Bethesda residents are worried about a “crosswalk to nowhere” that dead-ends at a construction site. (WJLA)
The El Paso streetcar is free in September. (CBS 4)
Boulder activists took the plunge and created a new protected bike lane themselves. (KDVR)

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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