Friday’s Headlines
Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg support improving intercity passenger rail, and Elizabeth Warren wants carbon-free cars and trucks, but overall the candidates said little about transportation at a marathon town hall on climate change. (CNN) Congestion is increasing, but commute times stay the same. Because sprawl begets sprawl, and jobs follow workers out to the … Continued
By
Blake Aued
8:00 AM EDT on September 6, 2019
- Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg support improving intercity passenger rail, and Elizabeth Warren wants carbon-free cars and trucks, but overall the candidates said little about transportation at a marathon town hall on climate change. (CNN)
- Congestion is increasing, but commute times stay the same. Because sprawl begets sprawl, and jobs follow workers out to the suburbs — which leads to shorter commutes, but more time spent sitting in traffic. (City Lab)
- Fourteen women have sued Lyft alleging that drivers sexually assaulted them. (BuzzFeed)
- Uber has spent half a billion dollars trying to repair its image. Will it work? (Vox)
- E-bike sales are up 60 percent this year, and they’re especially popular among seniors. (Considerable)
- Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ plan to boost Memphis transit funding by $10 million annually centers around a proposal to charge households that have more than two vehicles $145 a year for each additional vehicle. (Commercial Appeal)
- Even constituents in Phoenix’s most staunchly anti-transit city councilman’s district voted in favor of light rail last week. (New Times)
- London is changing its regs for skyscraper design to reduce headwinds for cyclists and pedestrians. (Wired)
- Tucson’s bike-share program (Arizona Public Media) and the University of Houston’s (Houston Public Media) are adding docking stations, and New Orleans’ will soon offer e-bikes (Advocate)
- Seattle’s bike-share program is on fire in more ways than one. (KOMO)
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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