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8 hours ago
[Article] (Ottawa) City council votes to remove truck route, add bike lanes on Gladstone Avenue
What makes this notable is this part:
Troster said the new bike lanes weren’t halted by recent provincial rules limiting such projects since they won’t remove any traffic lanes.
I guess the secret is to have dedicated parking spots instead of traffic lanes with parking on them!
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12 hours ago
The idea of a 'low-traffic neighborhood' has finally arrived in New York City
Linked to https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/09/dot-lays-groundwork-for-low-traffic-neighborhood-around-greenpoint-schooly
12 hours ago
Forget subscriptions for seat warmers, Tesla charges extra not to explode.
Linked to https://fuelarc.com/evs/3-cybertrucks-caught-fire-after-underbody-strikes-tesla-sells-a-3500-option-to-prevent-it/l
14 hours ago
Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces
Linked to https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/sep/09/european-prize-urban-public-space-climate-crisis-architects
About Round About Baths in Logroño:
“We have given up so much public space to cars, and if you live in a city with kids you live in constant fear that they will be hit by a passing vehicle”, Banchini said. “It restricts our movement so much that we almost can’t see it anymore.”
“The rules around car traffic are hard to modify, and any requests usually go all the way up to municipal authorities”, he added. “And politicians are really scared to touch anything with cars, because they fear it will cost them in votes.”
About Antwerp’s Zuidpark:
Still, the cars haven’t vanished altogether: a new car park, no longer free, is now positioned across four storeys underneath Zuidpark […]
“You could be critical because it’s still a car park with 2,000 spaces that is very close to the city,” said Van Gassen. “If you’re thinking sustainably, maybe it should have been built more outside of the city. But then, maybe if there was no parking we wouldn’t have been able to build a park at all.”
2026 finalists for European Prize for Urban Public Space can be found here
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16 hours ago
ICE's Demolition Derby
Linked to https://lataco.com/icewatch-newsletter-ices-demolition-derbyICE’s recklessness, aggression, and use of vehicles as assault weapons is nothing new. We’ve seen them ram into vehicles intentionally, sending people to the hospital, and using their vehicles as battering rams over and over.
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19 hours ago
New renderings of the MTA's IBX project serving Brooklyn, Queens are out
Linked to https://gothamist.com/news/new-renderings-of-the-mtas-ibx-project-serving-brooklyn-queens-are-outcross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/52501002
The $5.5 billion project, still pending environmental reviews and other approvals, includes building 18 new stations along a former freight line between the two boroughs and converting the tracks into a mostly above-ground light-rail system.
Weird how we can build data centers quickly and without approval.
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19 hours ago
More New Jersey school districts eliminating courtesy busing to fill budget gaps
Linked to https://westchester.news12.com/more-new-jersey-school-districts-eliminating-courtesy-busing-to-fill-budget-gapscross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/52500858
Monmouth County Commissioner Director Tom Arnone saw those cuts coming and introduced a plan to help towns improve safety features along walking and biking routes to school by applying for grants.
“The right striping, the right signage, the right ability for municipalities and school boards to get the grants they can get,” said Arnone.
Arnone says it won’t solve the funding issues but will make routes to and from school safer. The grants will cover simple safety features like enhanced crosswalks and added flashing lights.
I feel like having a safe path for children to walk to school may be a prerequisite for having them walk. They’re likely intending for parents to deliver their children to school.
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21 hours ago
The Trick To Stop Speeding Drivers Is Actually More Green Lights, Apparently
Linked to https://www.thedrive.com/news/traffic-experts-are-tricking-drivers-into-slowing-down-with-more-green-lightsBecause who needs traffic calming measures and bollards and roundabouts, right?
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21 hours ago
The city of Richmond wants the state of Virginia to drop the legal limit from a 0.08 blood alcohol level to 0.05.Drinking was a factor in 37 percent of the city’s crashes
Linked to https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/09/02/richmond-lower-virginia-blood-alcohol-dui-limitO
21 hours ago
Richmond, Virginia wants lawmakers to drop the legal limit from a 0.08 blood alcohol level to 0.05. Drinking was a factor in 37 percent of the city’s crashes
Linked to https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/09/02/richmond-lower-virginia-blood-alcohol-dui-limitO
21 hours ago
A Montreal study says that investing in transit brings greater economic development benefits than investing in car infrastructure.
Linked to https://globalnews.ca/news/12047870/montreal-transit-economic-advantages/f
a day ago
Richard Branson’s next stop: Paris and beyond as he takes on Eurostar
Linked to https://www.standard.co.uk/business/richard-branson-virgin-trains-eurostar-b1295670.html
2 days ago
Bike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued New York City five times
Linked to https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/08/anti-bike-lane-lawyer-astoria-uws-court-street
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2 days ago
[NYC] Missing Chunk of Fort Greene Bike Lane Has Been Restored
Linked to https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/fort-greene-ashland-place-protected-bike-lane-dot-opens/The block was removed from the 2023 redesign by former Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, reportedly at the behest of a local real estate developer. The firm got the ear of Adams’ former chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who had been indicted for allegedly being involved in a pay-to-play scheme to kill a similar bike lane project along Greenpoint’s McGuinness Boulevard.
“pay-to-play scheme to kill a similar bike lane project” – stay frosty everyone
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2 days ago
Toll of Commuting: A hands-on look at where the Hudson Tunnel Project stands
Linked to https://newjersey.news12.com/2026/09/07/toll-of-commuting-a-hands-on-look-at-where-the-hudson-tunnel-project-stands/6TEYkBlm5vRHjQnmVcJJrvSeven of the 10 construction contracts for the Gateway Program are complete or in progress. That includes the completed Tonnelle Avenue Bridge Project in North Bergen and early stages of new track layout and tunnel boring across North Jersey. The new tunnel is set to open in 2035 and the current one is set to be redone by 2038.
