The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Today’s newsletter features a dispatch from NYC, where City Hall wants the power to seize uncertified e-bike batteries, after the city has largely failed to thwart the number of structural fires caused by them — throwing into confusion the fates of delivery workers who are still using the banned batteries in the absence of broad measures to provide them with new equipment.
And the latest in the saga that began with USDOT’s un-painting of a rainbow crosswalk outside of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were massacred in 2016. Experts are split on whether vibrant road markings help reduce crashes with vulnerable road users or don’t do much at all, but Sec. Duffy wants these “political banners” gone.
The common denominator in every car crash is a car. So why don’t we talk about it?
The people of Toronto have shown up big to protect their bike lanes from removal. Will Americans stand with them?
Jalopnik points out that there are certain vehicles that average people have no business driving.
