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.
More on transit and passenger rail’s slow recovery from the pandemic.
How did parking lots swallow one of America’s hottest cities — and make it even hotter?
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
