Monday’s Headlines Come Heavy or Not at All
The Transport Workers Union takes aim at Amtrak's new policy allowing guns onboard trains.
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EST on November 9, 2026
- Next year Amtrak will start allowing passengers to bring guns aboard trains, a policy a union official described as “sheer lunacy.” (USA Today)
- Voters passed 22 of 26 transit measures on municipal ballots last Tuesday with a total value of $31 billion. (Engineering News & Record)
- Transit agencies will need that extra funding with the Biden-era Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expiring. (Pew)
- Yonah Freemark proposes an infrastructure tax credit to reverse the decline in federal funding for transit projects. (Tax Policy Center)
- Next Sunday the World Day of Remembrance will memorialize the 1 million people killed by drivers worldwide each year. (Vision Zero Network)
- Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate previously blocked transit funding, but now that Democrats hold a trifecta, Gov. Josh Shapiro said the money will flow. (River Reporter)
- A Philadelphia city council member wants to reduce fines for getting caught by a speed camera. (Inquirer; paywall)
- Drivers killed 61 people in Indianapolis this year through the end of September. (WTHR)
- Grow Omaha compares that city’s under-construction streetcar with The Hop in Milwaukee.
- Shreveport received a $2.2 million federal grant for street safety improvements. (KSLA)
- St. Augustine started a bikeshare network. (Jacksonville Daily Record)
- Spain’s transport minister has resigned after a high-speed rail crash killed 69 people. (The Guardian)
- Prague unveiled new design guidelines for trams that include planting grass between the tracks. (Prague Daily)
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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