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Friday’s Headlines Are Coming From Inside the House

We're in on the globalist plot to ... get people to drive less?

By Blake Aued

12:00 AM EST on February 10, 2023

Friday’s Headlines Are Coming From Inside the House

Remember when Agenda 21 was a secret UN plot to take away our golfs? Well, the 15-minute city isn’t a global climate lockdown conspiracy, either. (USA Today)
If you think parking adds to housing costs now, wait until developers have to start making spaces bigger to accommodate increasingly ginormous SUVs and trucks that won’t fit in a typical space. (Vice)
A bipartisan bill in the U.S. House would create a bank for investment in state and local infrastructure projects. (Smart Cities Dive)
A new U.S. DOT tool can tell you exactly how dangerous your community’s streets are. (Streetsblog)
Missouri and Montana are the last two states without a distracted driver law, but that could change this year. (Route Fifty)
A California county settled a lawsuit for $4.5 million that was filed by the family of a Black man who died after being tased by police who spotted him jaywalking. (New York Times)
Upzoning around transit stops could result in a million new housing units in Seattle. (Next City)
Dallas Area Rapid Transit is handing out $234 million worth of excess sales taxes to member communities, and Dallas plans to spend its share on greenways, sidewalks and handicapped accessibility. (D Magazine)
Upstate New York transit agencies want a dedicated source of funding outside of what’s allocated to New York City. (Spectrum News)
An investigation launched by the board of Hillsborough County, Florida, transit agency into the CEO’s fiscal practices has yielded little after two months. (Tampa Bay Times)
Philadelphia teachers are leaving over parking complaints, and the city says it can’t do anything (Inquirer). How about making it so teachers don’t have to drive to work?
Europe, India and China are electrifying rail, so why not the U.S.? (Clean Technica)
Transit project setbacks aren’t confined to the U.S., though. Spain recently spent $258 million on trains that are too big to fit through its tunnels. (MSN)
An underwater tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany will be the world’s longest that includes both road and rail. (The Mayor)
A new fleet of pink buses caters to women in Karachi, Pakistan, a country where sexual harassment on crowded transit is rampant. (The Guardian)
Dubai is building an air-conditioned bike path that apparently won’t be as bad for the climate as that sounds. (Momentum)

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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