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The National Association of City Transportation Officials has issued new guidelines on how cities should handle e-scooters. (Smart Cities Dive) A bipartisan team of two congressmen wants to phase out the gas tax and refill the federal highway trust fund with money from a tax on oil and gas producers. (The Hill) States are overtaxing … Continued

By Blake Aued

12:58 AM EDT on September 18, 2019

The National Association of City Transportation Officials has issued new guidelines on how cities should handle e-scooters. (Smart Cities Dive)
A bipartisan team of two congressmen wants to phase out the gas tax and refill the federal highway trust fund with money from a tax on oil and gas producers. (The Hill)
States are overtaxing electric vehicles to make up for lost gas tax revenue. (Green Car Reports)
Austin’s failed attempt to regulate ride-hailing in 2016 foreshadowed Uber and Lyft’s defiant attitude toward California’s new labor law (Vox). Meanwhile, the law prompted drivers in California and Massachusetts to file a new round of class-action lawsuits. (Boston Globe)
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a $51 billion plan to fix the New York City subway, but Streetsblog NYC is a bit skeptical they’ll ever find the money. See the NYC headlines for more from all the local outlets.
Boulder, one of the bike-friendliest cities in the U.S., remains wary of e-scooters. (City Lab)
With the arrival of e-scooters in Seattle, bike shares are likely to fade away. (KIRO)
The before and after data on one Washington, D.C. street shows that protected bike lanes really do work: Parked cars blocked the First Street bike lane 147 times in the four months before bollards were installed. Since then, it hasn’t been blocked once. (Greater Greater Washington)
In last month’s Prop 105 vote, the strongest support for light rail came from Phoenix neighborhoods that already have light rail or where it’s planned to expand. (Arizona Mirror)
The first leg of Ottawa’s new light rail system is now open. (Citizen)
We bet this gets awkward at Thanksgiving: Democratic president candidate Kamala Harris is in favor of labor rights for ride-hailing drivers, while her brother-in-law is the public face of Uber’s resistance to the new California law. (Los Angeles Times)

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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