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.
It’s Woodstock for NUMTOTs — minus the mud and free love.
Sidewalks are too often neglected, but there are ways for cities to step up and fix these essential public spaces.
Law Professor Michael Pollack on who manages, owns and feels ownership of sidewalks — “America’s most overlooked resource.”
