The Hub 7/30/2021: Clean Air Council’s Weekly Round-up of Transportation News
“The Hub” is a weekly round-up of transportation related news in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Check back weekly to keep up-to-date on the issues Clean Air Council’s transportation staff finds important.
Transit Forward Philadelphia: Transit Forward Philadelphia is seeking feedback from transit users and residents on how SEPTA can make a better bus network. Take the 5-minute survey to make the bus network fast, frequent, and reliable.
Streetsblog USA: Americans want Green School Buses– Electrifying school buses is important for public health, reducing transportation pollution, and reducing climate change. But Congress has reduced the initial proposed funding in the President’s infrastructure package from $20 billion for electric school buses and $25 billion for electrifying city buses to only $7.5 billion for total bus electrification. This reduction is unacceptable and will not stretch very far in electrifying the nation’s bus fleets.
WHYY: SEPTA’s Riders with Disabilities need more to Improve Accessibility– Philadelphia’s lawmakers highlighted that the U.S House passed funding that would provide improvements at SEPTA’s Erie station in North Philadelphia. Representatives Evans and Boyle secured approximately $40 million combined for transportation projects for the City of Philadelphia from the house version of the infrastructure bill. But riders with disabilities say that one elevator at the Erie station is not enough to improve accessibility.
PlanPhilly: Mapping Philly’s Latino communities along SEPTA’s 47 bus line– Learn about the places and people to know along SEPTA’s 47 bus line, which connects most Latino communities from South to North Philadelphia. Along the 10 mile route, these communities have various stories and connections to different people and places.
PlanPhilly: Transportation funding Report in PA has potentially years of debate– The Transportation Revenue Option Commission Report was ordered by Governor Tom Wolf to identify ways to replace Pennsylvania’s gas tax. This report is expected to start a debate that could last years, but the state faces a deadline as large companies are making major investments in electric vehicles.
Streetsblog USA: City Sidewalks are not Accessible – A coalition of Charm City residents in Baltimore filed a lawsuit against the city for failing to make sidewalks accessible. It is a federal law that sidewalks be accessible and “under the ADA, city transportation departments must evaluate sidewalks and make them accessible every time roads are repaved.”
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