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Thursday’s Headlines Are On the Road Again

Taking transit is safer than driving. Plus, the manufacturers of the new USPS trucks literally put their thumbs on the scale to skirt fuel efficiency rules.

By Blake Aued

12:00 AM EST on February 10, 2022

Thursday’s Headlines Are On the Road Again

Image: Trevor Littlewood via Creative Commons

One weird trick to reduce pedestrian deaths: Don’t assume most people drive. Instead, convince them to take transit, which is much safer. (Slate)
Manufacturer Oshkosh Defense skewed the payload capacity of gas-guzzling new U.S. Postal Service trucks in order to skirt federal fuel efficiency rules, according to the EPA. (Motherboard)
More data is needed to prevent pedestrian deaths. (Urban Institute)
Transit is essential to the fight against climate change, but needs sustainable funding and better governance to provide more access to opportunities. (The City Fix)
Atlanta residents who face hours-long bus rides, if they’re served by transit at all, are calling for a more equitable system. (WABE)
Calling the Columbia River Crossing a “bridge replacement project” is misleading because only 30 percent of the cost is replacing the bridge. The rest will pay to widen I-5 between Portland and Vancouver, Washington. (City Observatory)
A California bill would integrate the Bay Area’s tangled web of transit agencies. (Streetsblog SF)
Apartments are coming to a parking lot near a Dallas transit station (D Magazine) and a San Jose developer is proposing an affordable transit-oriented development (Mercury News).
Seattle’s Sound Transit is testing East Link light rail trains this week. (MyNorthwest)
Two California groups are launching an app that tracks crashes in San Diego in real time. (Times of San Diego)
Paris is planning a new system of aerial cable cars that will be cheaper than ground-bound options because it can skip over obstacles. (Euro News)
Lonely Planet has a guide for how to get around Detroit without a car.

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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