Tuesday’s Headlines Say C’est la Vie to Equity
Racist transportation planning is perfectly OK with the Trump administration.
By
Blake Aued
12:42 AM EDT on June 16, 2026
- The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it will no longer enforce a provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in federal funding. (KQED)
- President Trump loves to tear up bike lanes in Washington, D.C. because they supposedly inconvenience drivers, but he’s perfectly fine with snarling traffic for months to build a monument to himself. (Politico)
- Transit projects should be treated like any other type of infrastructure. (Next Metro)
- The cost for the Minneapolis Blue Line rose again to $3.6 billion as it nears completion. (KSTP)
- Denver could be facing a 20 percent transit budget cut. (Denver Post; paywall)
- It’s bad enough that Houston forces cyclists and pedestrians to use tunnels, but lately those tunnels have gotten flooded. (ABC 13)
- The St. Louis Metro is deploying a new integrated fare and gate system to improve fare recovery and make riders feel safer. (Metro Magazine)
- Washington state passed a law distinguishing between e-bikes and motorcycles (Government Technology) as many other cities and states struggle to do the same.
- The Urbanist says Seattle should be spending its bike-lane money faster.
- Milwaukee held its first Vision Zero summit. (On Milwaukee)
- San Francisco cyclists are fed up with Waymos blocking bike lanes. (Chronicle; paywall)
- The Trump administration might be cracking down on immigration and talking about annexing Canada, but train travel across the border from Seattle has never been easier. (KOMO)
- Barcelona may make a controversial decision to get rid of its private bikeshares in favor of expanding the public option. (Road.cc)
- Seoooooul Train: The Korean capitol is building six new urban rail lines. (Chosun Biz)
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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