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Tuesday’s Headlines Are the Reason for the Season

An MTA worker's delightful after-work hobby, a viral sidewalk meme revisited and a few wonkier deep dives to get you through the holidays.

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A Philadelphia trolley decorated for Christmas.

The national headlines are taking a short break and will return on Friday.

  • This Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker brings New Yorkers joy by dancing and shadow-boxing in Prospect Park for hours to blow off steam after long shifts on the subway. (NY Times)
  • Not your (great-grand) father's Hindenburg: Slow but comfortable fuel-cell powered airships could be future of sustainable air travel. (Jalopnik)
  • Got time to kill? This Eno Center series on each president's influence on transportation will suck you down a wormhole for hours.
  • Here are a couple of podcasts to keep you company: A War on Cars interview with urban planning professor Tara Goddard, and another from Streetsblog about how Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego keeps her constituents cool outside of cars.
  • If you're in the mood for something wonkier, check out Transportation for America's primer on the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization bill.
  • Paris, Jakarta, Bogota and Bengaluru, India are among the cities where transit emerged from the pandemic relatively unscathed, thanks to creative funding. (World Resources Institute)
  • Speaking of Bogota, it has the oldest and most successful open streets program in the world. (Slate)
  • Graphic artist Cameron Booth is tracing the history of streetcar systems in Portland and beyond. (BikePortland)
  • Workers on Atlanta's Summerhill bus rapid transit line uncovered old streetcar tracks and a forgotten underground parking garage. (Axios)
  • How one Los Angeles Times editor learned to love L.A. bike lanes.
  • The CEO of Heartland Bike Share rode a stationary bike for 12 hours to raise money for replacing stolen bikes around Omaha. (WOWT)
  • Ten years later, the originator of a viral sidewalk meme explains why he had to do it to 'em. (Tampa Bay Times)

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