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Friday’s Headlines Drink From the Firehose

A key DOT nominee's role in Project 2025, more dubious executive orders, climate change accelerates and more headlines.

  • Recent plane crashes and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's executive orders show the Trump administration is not serious about transportation safety. (The New Republic)
  • More from Trumpworld: The administration's anti-DEI stance also extends to environmental justice (Slate). It's freezing grants for electric vehicle chargers, potentially illegally (Politico). And it is disregarding the damage caused by carbon emissions when making policy (Washington Post).
  • Steven G. Bradbury, Trump's nominee for deputy secretary at the DOT, is hostile toward transit, thinks drivers' ability to speed is more important than safety and cowrote Project 2025's chapter on transportation, according to Transportation for America.
  • A leading climate scientist testified to the UN that temperatures are rising faster than expected, and the target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius is "dead." (The Guardian)
  • As the world gets hotter, cities should be investing in walking and biking infrastructure instead of replacing cooling greenspaces with roads. (Sustainable Transport)
  • People with certain vision problems that prevent them from driving can still ride e-bikes. (streets.mn)
  • A new poll found that 60 percent of New Yorkers support congestion pricing and don't want President Trump to block it. (CBS News)
  • Washington state legislators are working to double Amtrak service on the Cascades route. (The Urbanist)
  • Oklahoma City is pushing back a vote on regional transit by a year after receiving a federal grant to study rail crossing improvements. (Oklahoman)
  • Connecticut Democrats are dealing with a lot of misinformation about transit-oriented housing. (CT Mirror)
  • A Denver experiment that paid people to bike found that not only did they bike more while receiving incentives, but kept biking when the money stopped. (Denverite)
  • A new stage of express buses connecting London's outer boroughs is expected to be up and running this year. (BBC)

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