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Monday’s Headlines Are For the Children

For the 1 billion children who live in cities worldwide, the streets are too dangerous for them to play outside.

By Blake Aued

12:04 AM EST on December 4, 2023

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Kids no longer play outside because the streets are too dangerous, which hurts their health and development. (El Pais)
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wants to repeal the federal gas tax, which pays for highways and transit. (Post and Courier)
Car dealers are complaining that they can’t move electric vehicles off their lots fast enough to meet White House targets. (Ars Technica)
The Biden administration is prioritizing disadvantaged communities for Inflation Reduction Act funds. (The Verge)
Here’s how bus systems around the world are converting their fleets to electric. (Transport Matters)
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s administration is cutting upcoming highway projects as well as the revived Red Line to close a $2 billion gap in the state’s transportation budget. (Washington Post)
At 45 so far this year, traffic deaths in Washington, D.C. hit a 16-year high last week. (Axios)
New York City is setting the congestion fee to enter lower Manhattan by car at $15 for most drivers. (New York Times)
A New York state court ruled that cyclists have the same rights as drivers against illegal searches and seizures. (Spectrum News)
Seattle’s climate plan calls for doubling the number of biking trips by 2030, but it doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle that many cyclists. (The Urbanist)
Young leaders in San Antonio are seeking to revive a 2011 bike plan that remains less than half finished. (Report)
A new group called Calm Decatur has formed to fight for safer streets in the city near Atlanta. (Urbanize Atlanta)
Almost 4,000 Providence residents, or about one in 50, were hit by a driver between 2010 and 2022. (Brown Daily Herald)
A shuttered San Francisco nightclub suffered a flood over the summer that required it to cancel numerous events and make costly repairs, but the owner opted to blame a new bike lane for its closure instead. (SFist)

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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