Monday’s Headlines: Memorial Day Edition

By Streetsblog
May 25, 2020

Enjoy the day off, if that’s even possible. We’ll be back with national headlines on Tuesday as normal. Until then, here are a few things we noticed over the weekend:

Drive-in movies — which are inherently inequitable — are making a comeback. (amNY)
Some of that $25 billion allocated by the federal government as COVID-19 relief for transit agencies is going to the Golden Gate Bridge Transportation District to boost ferries and bus service. (NBC Bay Area)
There’s talk of making bike share part of the public transit system in Austin, Texas. (Community Impact)
We spend a lot of time talking about how people get around horizontally, but City Lab did a deep dive on elevators.

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

Peter Norton: We Can Learn From the Movement to Enshrine Car Dependence

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 17, 2014

Yesterday, we published part one of my interview with Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. We talked about whether the push for infrastructure investment is always code for increasing car capacity, and how the Vision Zero campaign […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Thinking Regionally About New York

By Jeff Wood | Jun 2, 2022

How the Interborough Express got traction, and other tales of transit in the Big City.

Today's autonomous buses are mostly pretty small — but as they grow in size, so will the complexity of the conversation about how to regulate them and protect their human drivers. Photo: North Dakota DOT

Will ‘Autonomous’ Buses Force Drivers Out of a Job — Or Make Them More Important Than Ever?

By Kea Wilson | May 31, 2022

Automated vehicle technology could improve labor conditions for bus drivers while improving safety and service for transit passengers and city-dwellers alike — but only if regulators act now, a new analysis argues.

A used car dealership in Austin, TX. Photo Credit: Flickr user Lars Plougmann, CC BY-SA 2.0

The Bus Not Taken: How Easy Auto Loans Reinforced Car Dependence and Killed Transit Ridership

By Rachel Cross | Feb 15, 2018

Easy credit added 5 million cars to American roads in 2015 -- a blow to transit agencies and a precarious situation for borrowers.

House Transport Chair: 'We Must Move Beyond Fossil Fuel'

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 29, 2019

Peter Defazio, the new chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, talks bikes, pedestrians and transit — and getting us off fossil fuel.

How Do We Make Clean Transportation Part of the National Discussion?

By Brad Aaron | Aug 29, 2008

Like Joe Biden, Barack Obama also mentioned Amtrak in his acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention, but only in reference to his running mate’s preferred mode of transportation. There were many, many things to be excited about yesterday, but any livable streets advocate anticipating a call to rebuild and expand our nation’s transit infrastructure, […]