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Arizona Orders Self-Driving Ubers Off Roads (NYT) World Resources Institute: Politics, Victim-Blaming Stand in the Way of Safer Streets (Curbed) Judge Orders Release of Videos of Asheville Officer Beating Black Man for Jaywalking (Citizen-Times) Pittsburgh Officials Relieved Federal Budget Includes BRT Funding (TribLive) Austin Officially Unveils Draft Transit Plan (Community Impact) Las Vegas Mall Starts […]

Waymo CEO Claims Its Cars Would’ve Avoided Fatal Uber Crash (WaPo) If Nashville Approves Transit Referendum, Buses Will Roll Out Before Rail (NPR) Sound Transit Proposes Two New Light Rail Stations in Seattle (KING) Ann Arbor Moves to Lower Speeds and Calm Traffic (MLive) Maryland Won’t Make Street Safety Changes It They Delay Drivers Even […]

How Two States and DC Came Together to Fund WMATA (WaPo) Uber Had Problems With Autonomous Cars Well Before Tempe Crash (Fortune) Another Farcical Infrastructure Week Comes and Goes (Esquire) Measuring Bus and Bike Lane Blockage With Machine Learning (Fast Company) Vision Zero Can’t Come Fast Enough as Portland Traffic Deaths Outpace 2017 (KATU) Philadelphia […]

D.C. Mayor Proposes Ride-Hailing Tax to Fund Metro (WaPo) More Coverage of the Questions Raised By Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash (The Verge, Bloomberg) Maybe Charlotte Should Have Built Less Parking Around Its Blue Line (Observer) Miami Transit Tracker Won’t Link With Ride- or Bike-Sharing Apps (Miami Today) Vandals Cut Brakes on Seattle Bike-Share Bikes […]

Transit Agencies Blast “Debilitating” Trump Budget Cuts (Curbed) Who’s Liable When an Autonomous Car Kills Someone? (Atlantic) Lawsuit Showed Uber’s Ambivalence About Self-Driving Car Safety (The Verge) Traffic Dangers Disproportionately Affect People of Color in Milwaukee (Urban Milwaukee) Seattle Considers More Transit-Only Lanes to Keep Streetcars Moving (My Northwest) “It’s Nothing, But We’ll Take It”: […]

Transit Officials Don’t Understand Why Trump Favors Rural Roads (WaPo) Tempe Police Chief Blames Pedestrian for Driverless Uber Killing Her (SF Chronicle) Pittsburgh Wants to Upgrade Transit (Post-Gazette) But Federal BRT Funding Could Vanish (WESA) Arkansas Study Will Focus on Reducing Pedestrian Deaths (Democrat-Gazette) NC Triangle Will Hear Soon on Federal Funding for Light Rail […]