Friday’s Headlines Are E-Done With This Week

12:00 AM EDT on April 29, 2022

Sales of e-bikes nearly doubled between 2020 and 2021 and outpaced sales of electric cars last year by almost 44 percent. (Bicycling)
U.S. regulations allow U.S.-made cars sold in the U.S. to emit far more harmful ultrafine particles than their counterparts sold in Europe. (Reuters)
Want to make intersections safer but don't have millions of dollars? Just grab some paint and make art. (Fast Company)
San Francisco supervisors voted to permanently ban cars from John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park. (Examiner)
Honolulu transit officials are working frantically to find a way by a June 30 deadline to keep a federal grant for a light-rail project that keeps drifting over budget. (Civil Beat)
Oregon will hand over 82nd Avenue, aka State Route 213, to Portland so the city can make it safer for pedestrians. (Bike Portland)
Pittsburgh has plans for a more pedestrian-friendly Smithfield Street. (Post-Gazette)
An audit found that thousands of Atlanta streetlights aren't working, and the city doesn't even know where all of them are. (AJC)
A second Kansas City streetcar extension could be in the works. (KCTV)
A Virginia Senate committee has spiked Gov. Glenn Youngkin's proposed gas-tax suspension. (WRIC)
Dallas transit will be free on Texas' state election day May 7. (Irving Weekly)
A Texas tune-up shop owner is in hot water with the internet after rolling coal on a cyclist. (Jalopnik)

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