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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.
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.
As Omaha builds a downtown streetcar line, how have similar projects in other cities panned out?
