Monday’s Headlines Are For the Children
Electric buses and e-bikes are leading to a healthier lifestyle for kids and teenagers.
By
Blake Aued
12:21 AM EDT on October 5, 2026
- Electric school buses reduce the amount of air pollution children breathe in, which is particularly helpful in low-income communities and communities of color where kids are far more likely to suffer from asthma. (The City Fix)
- With the death of gathering places like malls and arcades, E-bikes let teenagers hang out with each other instead of sitting alone on their phones at home. (Electrek)
- Complete Streets and transit-oriented development can work hand-in-hand to create people-centered communities. (Smart Growth America)
- How to manage noise pollution from urban rail. (Railway Pro)
- Tariffs are costing New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority $1 billion a year. (Railway Supply)
- Sound Transit opened Seattle’s first “infill station” located on an existing light rail line. (The Urbanist)
- Highway construction costs in Indiana have risen a dizzying 450 percent since 2015. (Capital Chronicle)
- Ohio’s fuel tax holiday doesn’t benefit EV or hybrid owners who pay extra fees. (Statehouse News Bureau)
- Portland, Maine is daylighting crosswalks as part of its Vision Zero program. (Fox Bangor)
- Lexington, Kentucky’s Vision Zero program is four years old. (Kentucky Kernel)
- Traverse City sets aside 1 percent of its budget for Complete Streets projects. (Rapid Growth)
- An Axios Detroit reporter biked the unfinished Joe Louis Greenway.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in Mobile Friday to break ground on a $4 billion I-10 bridge project. (AL.com)
- Mobile’s trolley-loving mayor has set about converting the city bus fleet. (AL.com)
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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