Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Today’s Headlines

Startups are abandoning suburban office parks in favor of urban areas with good transit. (City Lab) Vice gets to the heart of Uber and Lyft’s desperate battle against a California bill reclassifying drivers as employees rather than contractors: It could destroy their unsustainable business model by increasing the already unprofitable companies’ labor costs. Likewise, a […]

The Trump Administration is still holding back billions of dollars in funding for public transit. (Curbed, Streetsblog) Cities need new infrastructure to handle the rise of e-commerce as deliveries add to congestion. (Bloomberg) Google Maps is now displaying bike-share docks in 24 cities. (Engadget) A Blue Line power shutdown on Wednesday and last month’s Red […]

Unless people drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures all over the country will rise to dangerous levels in the coming decade (Mic). The Union of Concerned Scientists has created an alarming interactive map that tells you how hot your community could get. (Spoiler alert: some hobbits might show up and throw a ring at you.) […]

A New York Times story about self-driving cars focuses on whether the technology is feasible and doesn’t stop to question if or how it will get vehicles off the roads. Scooter rental companies Lime and Bird are starting to get serious about safety. (City Lab) The mobility tool Populus now has the ability to show […]

Lyft’s courtroom victory making it the sole bike-share provider in San Francisco is also a big win for the company in its war with Uber. (Business Insider) A scooter skeptic has seen the light. (Washington Post) The ride-hailing bubble is about to burst, part infinity. (National Review) Parking in Los Angeles is a blood sport, […]

The National Complete Streets Coalition ranked the 100 most dangerous congressional districts for pedestrians in an addendum to its most recent Dangerous by Design report (Forbes). Topped by Arizona’s Seventh District, the vast majority are in the South and West. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) says he wants a committee […]