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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.

  • Friday’s Headlines Go North, Young Man
    by Blake Aued
    August 7, 2026
    If you want to walk and bike safely, stay out of the South.
  • Talking Headways Podcast: What Does It Cost to Build a Bus?
    by ren1
    August 6, 2026
    Lisa Jerram of APTA and Philip Plotch of the Eno Center for Transportation explain the state of bus manufacturing and why buses cost so much.
  • Report: Building More Homes Reduces Overall Driving
    by ren1
    August 6, 2026
    Building more homes will get cars off the road, but where they’re built matters.
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