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The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.

Welcome back to the working week! Today’s big story takes a look at one of America’s most walkable school districts and how it might soon lose that important distinction because of a move from local neighborhood schools to a centralized early learning center.

We’ve also published the first in a series from PeopleForBikes about how the problem with e-bikes might not be a problem with e-bikes at all.

Read all that and more below:

  • Friday’s Headlines Are in Decline
    by Blake Aued
    May 22, 2026
    The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
  • Spirit’s Shutdown Exposes America’s Fragile Affordable Travel System
    by ren1
    May 22, 2026
    “Affordable travel is not a fallback. It is what makes broad mobility possible.”
  • A train passes over the Downtown Greenway in Greensboro, North Carolina.
    Talking Headways Podcast: Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway
    by J.K. Trotter
    May 21, 2026
    Dabney Sanders explains how Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway came together.
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