Les Titres de Mardi a Paris

Transportation writer Henry Grabar sends dispatches from the Olympics, plus the latest on the train arson in France.

By Blake Aued

12:54 AM EDT on July 30, 2024

A light rail train in Paris.

|Hugo Douchet, CC

Repairs were completed Monday on France's national high-speed rail network after several coordinated attacks as the Olympics opened on Friday (BBC). Police also arrested a far-left activist in connection with the sabotage (CBS News).
Google isn't nearly as good at directing people around the Paris Metro as old-fashioned human advice, Henry Grabar reports from the Olympics for Slate.
Half of Tesla's profits come from federal tax credits for electric vehicle manufacturers that CEO Elon Musk opposes. (Jalopnik)
The Nashville DOT started a tactical urbanism unit allowing communities to quickly build pop-up street safety infrastructure. (Mass Transit)
Forget the pandemic — public transportation in New Orleans never fully recovered from Hurricane Katrina almost 20 years ago. (Times-Picayune)
Memphis transit riders are anxious about potential service cuts stemming from a $60 million budget deficit. (ABC 24)
Chicago's Red Line extension received a $396 million Federal Transit Administration grant, bringing the total to $746 million. (WGN)
Dozens of Ann Arbor residents participated in a die-in to call attention to the Michigan city's lack of progress on Vision Zero. (MLive)
A San Diego project turning four-lane Pershing Drive into a two-lane road with a two-way bike track is officially open. (Axios)
Officials in the Northern California town of Eureka thought they had a no-brainer plan to build affordable housing on city-owned parking lots. Four lawsuits and a ballot initiative later, it turned out to be not so simple. (Cal Matters)
Current and former members of the military can ride Seattle's Sound Transit for free this week. (KOMO)
Amazon fired a delivery driver who was caught on video driving down a metro Atlanta sidewalk. (11 Alive)

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