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.
Low-emissions zones work, but public backlash makes some politicians reluctant to embrace them.
Philadelphia’s automated enforcement pilot has reduced double parking and cleared loading zones for commercial vehicles in the year since it launched.
When it comes to federal transit funding, small cities get more bang for the buck than big ones.
