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
12:01 AM EDT on July 10, 2023
- 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)
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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