Thursday’s Headlines, and a Lot of Them
Infrastructure, vaccine tourism, reflections from Donald Shoup and a whole lot more just a click away.
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EDT on April 22, 2021
- President Biden’s infrastructure plan is filled with compromises the White House made to ensure it had broad support. (Washington Post)
- Republican senators are prepping a counteroffer to Biden’s plan that will be just a fraction of a size and funded partly by electric vehicle fees. (Politico)
- While some “vaccine tourists” are flying thousands of miles for a COVID shot, others have no way to get to their appointments close to home. (Kaiser Health News)
- An MIT professor has figured out a way to model pedestrian movement the way that traffic engineers do for cars. (World Economic Forum)
- With much of the white-collar workforce expected to stay home post-pandemic, some urbanists are dreaming of converting offices into housing. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. (Slate)
- Parking guru Donald Shoup reflects on how things have changed in the past 25 years. (Parking Today)
- New Jersey transit officials say it could take four years for ridership to recover. (NJ Biz)
- Despite the influx of federal funding, the financial situation at Denver’s Regional Transportation District is still uncertain. (Mass Transit Mag)
- Milwaukee will use part of its $400 million in stimulus money to expand the city’s streetcar. (TMJ 4)
- Dallas-Fort Worth will spend $54 million from the stimulus package on bike and pedestrian projects. (Star-Telegram)
- Sacramento is turning its historic train station into a multimodal and environmentally friendly “mobility hub.” (Smart Cities Dive)
- Billy Penn has an update on Philadelphia bike projects.
- Athens, Georgia, is starting to build out a 20-year plan to put bike paths on every major street. (Flagpole)
- Washington, D.C. will start enforcing parking laws again June 1. (Washingtonian)
- Austin’s Cap Metro is starting to prepare land-use plans for affordable transit-oriented housing near new Project Connect transit stops. (Monitor)
- Houston has a new, contactless fare system. (Railway Age)
- Orlando Weekly tries to talk some sense into Florida politicians who are enamored with Elon Musk’s Boring tunnels.
- A retired L.A. Metro rail car could be turned into a cafe or museum. (Long Beach Post)
- Just shoe it: Portland’s new bike-share docks are made out of recycled Nike sneakers. (Bike Portland)
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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