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Lyft is selling off its bikeshares, but who is going to want to get involved in such a difficult business?
By
Blake Aued
12:16 AM EDT on August 11, 2023
- Turns out that Lyft buying bikeshares was just a scheme to get more people to use its ridehailing app. Now Lyft wants out of the business, and it could be a death knell for bikeshares in numerous cities. (Slate)
- An Amtrak survey found that the vast majority of Americans support strong passenger rail service. (Trains)
- From big cities like Los Angeles to smaller systems in the Midwest, transit agencies are adopting fare-capping as a way to make transit easier and cheaper to use. (Government Technology)
- Will cities throw up their hands and surrender to driverless vehicles? (The Atlantic; paywall)
- The U.S. DOT is offering $13 million in grants for transit-oriented development planning. (CleanTechnica)
- A California nonprofit is turning parking lots into tiny houses for the homeless. (Fast Company)
- The quick repair of I-95 in Philadelphia proves that government can be nimble when it wants to. (Governing)
- The D.C. Metro’s complicated structure and many partner jurisdictions make it too subsceptible to the whims of politics. (Railway Age)
- A high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas was thought dead, but looks like Amtrak is bringing it back to life.
- Portland and surrounding communities are trying to encourage more housing without considering how people will get from here to there — by car, in most cases, because there are no other options. (Bike Portland)
- Cincinnati has some of the worst bike infrastructure in the U.S., but new projects are on the way. (Enquirer)
- Everyone in Cleveland wants Market Street closed to cars for good after a successful 2019 pilot project. So why hasn’t it happened yet? (Scene)
- Michigan is the latest state to consider switching from gas taxes to a miles-driven charge to fund transportation. (Bridge Michigan)
- Atlanta transit workers will get a raise under a new three-year union contract. (AJC)
- Charleston cyclists want the city to stick to a plan for protected bike lanes on Lower King Street. (Post and Courier)
- When Salt Lake City workers uncovered a buried streetcar line, it illustrated what the city had lost and what it could become. (City Weekly)
- A hole in a New York City sidewalk has gotten so bad that people can see the subway underneath. (NY Post)
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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