Wednesday’s Headlines Vote With Our Feet
What will it take to get pro-transit voters to actually ride transit?
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EST on November 11, 2026
- The public overwhelmingly supports transit measures when they’re on the ballot, perhaps because voters know they probably aren’t going to ride it until service is faster and more frequent. (Governing)
- All the e-scooter clutter in cities a few years was an intentional strategy by shared scooter companies chasing market share, according to a University of Texas study.
- The Department of Justice accused Lyft in federal court of discriminating against disabled would-be passengers. (ABC News)
- Uber, which once promised you’d never have to worry about parking again, now offers help finding a place to park through its app. (Gizmodo)
- Amtrak says seats are filling up fast for holiday travel. (10 Boston)
- Of course the right-leaning New York Post framed this as a bad thing, but Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman has a $3 billion plan to fix streets and build more bike lanes.
- Bills advancing and obstructing high-speed rail have been filed in the Texas legislature. (KENS)
- The Austin Transit Partnership has started discussing future light rail to the airport. (KXAN)
- More shade trees, crosswalks, bike racks and streetlights are few cheap, easy things Miami can do to make walking easier. (Car-Free America)
- Milwaukee held a memorial for 43 people killed in car crashes so far this year. (CBS 58)
- Sound Transit is discussing later weekend hours on Seattle light rail. (KING)
- Ohio has received 200 complaints about gas stations not passing gas tax holiday savings onto drivers. (Signal Cleveland)
- A push for more Amtrak service to Cleveland is not making progress at the federal level. (Plain Dealer)
- A Danish university released free, open-source software called BikeNetKit to help design networks of bike infrastructure. (Fast Company)
- With the Ontario government removing bike lanes from Toronto streets, a tongue-in-cheek petition calls for removing car lanes instead. (Momentum)
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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