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Tuesday’s Headlines from Around Our Land

Basically, the solution all boils down to good transit. That, plus all the other news in our daily digest.

By Blake Aued

12:01 AM EDT on September 15, 2020

Better bus service is an often-overlooked climate change solution. (Yale Climate Connections)
Uber’s push to go emissions-free by 2040 will require a whole new, more efficient electric grid to succeed. (Quartz)
Traffic stops in Minneapolis are down 80 percent since George Floyd’s death at the hands of a police officer, but the department is still pulling over a disproportionate number of Black drivers. (Bloomberg)
A Georgia sheriff’s deputy beat and choked a Black passenger who was riding in a Lyft that the deputy pulled over for a broken taillight. The deputy has been fired. (ABC News)
Philadelphia Magazine reimagines the City of Brotherly Love as an urbanist’s paradise, with cars banned from the center of town, a train on deadly Roosevelt Boulevard, sunken expressways, and cheaper and more frequent transit.
In the wake of ridership plummeting during the pandemic, Jacksonville is pivoting from fixed-route bus service to on-demand shuttles, while Miami is offering ride-hailing vouchers. (South Florida Reporter)
Five workers were injured when an Atlanta parking deck collapsed for the second time. (11 Alive)
With Baltimore transit once again on the chopping block, the Sun revisits how drivers killed off the streetcar system in the 1960s.
Washington, D.C.’s streetcar and circulator will return to normal service on Sunday. (DCist)
Portland’s new electric bike-share bikes have arrived, and BikePortland gives them two thumbs up.
Uber is back in court this week trying to keep London from revoking its license. (Business Insider)
Tokyo is making creative use of the space underneath its elevated railways. (City Lab)
The British city of Leeds is offering residents free e-bikes for two weeks in an effort to get them out of their cars. (CNBC)

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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