Friday’s Headlines Boldly Go Where Many Have Gone Before

A new Uber service will allow large groups of people traveling to the same destination to share a vehicle that carries up to 55 occupants. Sound familiar?

By Blake Aued

12:12 AM EDT on May 17, 2024

Peter Fazekas

After disrupting the taxi business, Uber has now reinvented the bus. (Engadget)
Congress is holding hearings on the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. (Washington Post)
The Federal Railroad Administration is looking for proposals to upgrade the Northeast Corridor, with $2 billion to spend. (Route Fifty)
The EPA is offering $1 billion in grants to purchase zero-emissions heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses. (Mass Transit)
Small projects can have a big impact on neighborhoods when it comes to traffic safety, walking and biking. (Mayors Innovation Project)
It was commissioned by a company that manufactures trains, so take it with a grain of salt, but a new survey found that a majority of Americans favor replacing short-haul flights with high-speed rail (Metro). Another possibly self-serving one from outdoor retailer REI found that two-thirds of people would bike more if they had better infrastructure (Planetizen).
As in many cities, there's more demand for street space in New York City than ever before. Congestion pricing can help fix that. (NY Times)
Portland's TriMet has rebuilt bus ridership post-COVID by aligning with other regional transit agencies. (Tribune)
The Rampart streetcar line is running again in New Orleans, more than five years after a hotel collapsed and forced its closure. (NOLA.com)
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has developed a new tool for reporting parking infractions and near-misses with cars. (Greater Greater Washington)
Two new ride-hailing services are operating in Minneapolis after Uber and Lyft announced they'd pull out due to minimum wage legislation the city council passed. (CBS News)
Four years after a Fort Worth study identified its deadliest roads, the city has done little to fix them. (NBC DFW)
The Vision Zero effort in Phoenix is getting mixed results. (ABC 15)
A project in Colombia's third-largest city turned an open-air sewer through an underserved neighborhood into a linear park and transportation corridor. (CNU Public Square)
One Montreal borough mayor is fighting back against oversized SUVs. (CityLab)
Not only is China beating the U.S. on passenger rail construction, they've incorporated the most American thing possible onto trains — fast food delivery. (Jalopnik)