Wednesday’s Headlines Are Running Out of Time
Shelve your utopian schemes and just phase out fossil fuels and put more money into transit. It's not that hard.
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EDT on September 22, 2021
- How do we cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030? Pretty simple: Phase out vehicles powered by fossil fuels and invest in transit. (Fast Company)
- TimeOut wonders if Walmart and Amazon billionaire’s plans for a new Mega-City One in the middle of some desert is greenwashing. The Guardian has a pretty definitive answer.
- Some combination of vehicle-miles-driven and congestion-based tax could both encourage electric vehicles and discourage driving overall. (Clean Technica)
- Remote work isn’t killing cities, but it is encouraging sprawl in those cities. (Business Insider)
- Add Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park to the list of Black neighborhoods decimated by freeways. (Washington Post)
- Your neighborhood can either be car-friendly or child-friendly. Pick one. (Greater Greater Washington)
- San Diego officials are now considering how many cars will be put on the road when approving new developments. (Union-Tribune)
- Detroit might be the “Motor City,” but a third of residents don’t own cars, and they’re tired of waiting on buses because of a driver shortage. (Crain’s)
- Less than a week after it started running, Charlotte’s Gold Line streetcar extension is apparently already doomed by pandemic ridership drops and a looming fare hike. (WFAE)
- Remember the fun, frivolous, early aughts internet? Uber drivers have some taxicab confessions. Size really does matter — and not just for pickup trucks. (Buzzfeed)
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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