The Hub 12/16/16: 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.

Phily.com: How a Philly guy, fed up with crashes, built his own bike lane – Tired of redtape and the snail pace of government, many citizens use tactical urbanism to guerrilla engineer infrastcture projects themselves.

Slate.com: “They can just take Uber”: Cities across the country are cutting public transportation because they think ride-hailing services will fill the gap. They’ll regret it.– Many elected officials look to Uber and Lyft to alleviate their transit problems, however,  the current cheap price of rideshare is not a sustainable business model.

PlanPhilly: Slow rollout of SEPTA Key leaves riders confused –  While many advertisements stated that SEPTA Key would be available in June 2016, a full roll-out is still many months away.

Philly Voice: Lyft: We pumped millions into Philly’s economy in 2016 – Lyft’s 2017 economic report, conducted by real estate developer Land Econ Group, also found that Lyft saved riders a million hours in traveling.

NextCity: Barcelona superblock expansion plan takes first steps – Barcelona aims to reduce space for cars by 60 percent and and reduce air pollution to levels within the new European Union regulations. The centerpiece of their Urban Mobility Plan, is the creation of areas called “superblocks” – groups of contiguous blocks where motor vehicles are discouraged by reducing streets to a single lane, limiting speed and removing parking areas. Bicycles are allowed to move freely within superblocks.

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