Skip to Content
Streetsblog USA home
Streetsblog USA home
Log In
Today's Headlines

Thursday’s Headlines From Around the Nation

12:01 AM EDT on April 2, 2020

    • Is Infrastructure Week finally here? President Trump is pushing a $2-trillion infrastructure deal to jump-start the economy. (The Hill)
    • Dallas Mavericks owner and "Shark Tank" host Mark Cuban has a point, for once: If we’re going to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure, it can’t just be the usual roads and bridges. But how about investing in transit and Complete Streets instead of lanes for self-driving cars and pedestrian bridges? (Yahoo)
    • The coronavirus crisis is illustrating the profound effect reducing traffic congestion can have on road safety and air quality. Cities should pursue congestion pricing now and reap the benefits when the crisis abates. (Eno Center for Transportation)
    • Uber drivers — whose incomes are plummeting during the pandemic — are accusing the company of hindering their access to unemployment benefits. (Forbes)
    • The U.S. needs passenger rail to connect its emerging mega-regions — and it doesn’t have to be high speed, just fast enough to compete with short flights. (City Metric)
    • Coronavirus finally convinced New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to drop the city’s stupid and unnecessary crackdown on throttle e-bikes, which targets mainly immigrant delivery workers (Fast Company). State legislators finally legalized the bikes on Thursday (Streetsblog).
    • Ann Arbor unveiled a $1-billion plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. Most of the money would go toward transit — including expanding service and electric buses — with the goal of cutting miles driven in half. (MLive)
    • Atlanta suburbs on the north side of I-285 want space set aside for trails when the Georgia DOT starts adding lanes. (Curbed)
    • Not everyone is happy about it, but Las Vegas has found a use for an empty parking lot: as an open-air shelter for the homeless, with markings to help them with social distancing. Coronavirus recently forced a 500-bed shelter to close. (The Guardian)
    • A small Washington state transit agency is using its fleet of vans to deliver groceries — a creative way to keep trip numbers up and help the community. (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
    • A Cincinnati urban planner unearthed plans to build a subway in 1927. At the time, the city had 16 bus routes and 39 streetcars carrying a total of 160 million riders a year. (City Beat)

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog USA

Want a Better 15-Minute City? Ask Residents What They Really Want

A new study from Bogotá models how other cities can ask a deeper set of questions about how to put essential needs within walking, biking or transit distance.

March 19, 2024

Tuesday’s Headlines Win the Gold

Two articles detail efforts in Paris and Los Angeles to put on (relatively) climate-friendly Olympic games in 2024 and 2028.

March 19, 2024

Monday’s Headlines Drink Your Milkshake

How does a president end wasteful subsidies for the highly profitable fossil fuel industry? Many have tried, but none have succeeded, including Joe Biden.

March 18, 2024

How — and Why — To Start a Neighborhood E-Bike Library

American advocates are loaning out e-bikes to their neighbors — and creating flocks of new riders.

March 18, 2024

What Urbanists’ Doug Burgum Lovefest Reveals About the ‘Why’ Behind Our Advocacy

I am far less interested in talking about Gov. Doug Burgum's politics than talking about his values, and how those values shape his urbanism, and thus the actual lives of the people he governs.

March 15, 2024
See all posts