The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
This morning’s newsletter brings you an article from the Urban Institute’s Yonah Freemark, who dives into the funding problems (and proposed solutions) for the Highway Trust Fund. Specifically, the Trump administration is proposing to reduce spending on public transportation projects and prevent states from “flexing” federal highway funds to assist their transit agencies.
Plus: An op-ed from Jack Keith on his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, where he questions what kind of place makes us more free: the car-dominated city or the transit-rich metropolis?
Is the next Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny or (insert popular artist here) album drop going to kill you?
There’s no reason one of the most valuable companies in the world should get free access to a public right-of-way.
People need to stop crashing out about the menace posed by electric motorcycles, The Guardian reports.
‘Eyes on Board’ is a new project from the San Francisco Transit Riders to track incidents of harassment.
