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Tuesday’s Headlines Are Too Poor to Drive

Inequality is rising, and a growing number of people are stranded without cars or access to good transit.

By Blake Aued

12:00 AM EDT on March 21, 2023

Tuesday’s Headlines Are Too Poor to Drive

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With income inequality growing and the cost of owning a car rising, people without cars who must walk or use shoddy transit are increasingly cut off from jobs, schooling and services. (Salon)
Charging drivers to use increasingly precious curb space for parking and deliveries could be transit agencies’ ticket to a post-pandemic fiscal recovery. (Governing)
A coalition of 22 transportation, equity and environmental groups are criticizing the Biden administration for backing down from its fix-it-first approach to road construction. (NRDC)
“The Free Streets Manifesto” shows how to transform streets into places where people gather and enjoy themselves. (Pop Up City)
Philadelphia transit agency SEPTA is mothballing the King of Prussia rail line after getting a negative reaction from the Federal Transit Administration. (Billy Penn)
Seattle’s light rail expansion is underfunded, and what’s getting built is going to be different from what voters approved. (The Urbanist)
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that a man was “unlawfully seized” during a fare check, but upheld that fare checks are legal. (KUOW)
Victims of traffic violence in Washington, D.C. don’t need an audit to tell them the city’s Vision Zero program is failing. (Washington Post)
Two years into Vision Zero, Chapel Hill isn’t showing much improvement from education and enforcement. (WRAL)
Following the success of a nine-euro monthly transit pass last summer, Germany has approved a 49-euro version covering all regional rail, metros, trams and buses nationwide. (The Guardian)
This week Berlin voters will decide whether to push up their city’s carbon-neutral target date from 2045 to 2030. (The Mayor)

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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