- How downtown businesses stopped worrying and learned to love the bike lane. (City Lab)
- Outside of a handful of cities with good transit, the average American needs a car to get around. But the average American also can't afford to buy a car anymore, which makes developing alternatives to driving even more urgent. (Vox)
- The high cost of electric vehicle batteries makes EVs more expensive to insure than internal combustion cars, threatening the transition from fossil fuels to EVs. (Forbes)
- The Gateway project — a rail tunnel underneath the Hudson River that will improve train performance up and down the Eastern Seaboard — received a $6.9 billion federal grant, the largest ever for a transit project. (New York Times)
- The D.C. Metro's recovery is leading all transit agencies in the country after the pandemic ridership dip. (Greater Greater Washington)
- Salt Lake City's notoriously wide streets should be redesigned to make them safer by slowing down drivers. (eRoads and Bridges)
- A recent survey found that St. Louis is littered with damaged sidewalks that need replacing. (Next STL)
- At $27 million, it may not be much, but for the first time the state of Georgia has a dedicated funding source for transit. (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
- Michigan advocates are fighting for more sustainable sources of infrastructure funding. (CBS News)
- Indianapolis is ticketing and towing drivers who park in bike lanes. (Star)
- Changes are coming to a dangerous Buffalo intersection. (WGRZ)
- Boulder's BCycle bikeshare is considering expanding into surrounding communities. (Daily Camera)
- Sound Transit will be fare-free and offer expanded service today and tomorrow for the MLB All-Star Game in Seattle.
- Is Taylor Swift properly maintaining the sidewalk outside her Tribeca townhouse? (Curbed)
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Monday’s Headlines Are in Business
Businesses used to fight for parking, but in struggling post-pandemic downtowns they're now embracing the foot traffic that comes from bikes and pedestrians
By Blake Aued
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