The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Today’s newsletter brings you two different kinds of bullshitting in the name of safety from the federal government.
The first: Why USDOT Sec. Sean Duffy thinks that the correct response to a murder that happened earlier in the week on Charlotte, NC’s light rail is… cutting transit funding.
The second: The way to make D.C. ‘safer,’ according to car-driving feds, is to eliminate speed cameras and make it legal to turn right on red.
Check it out — plus the news from today’s headlines — in the links below.
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.”
