The Hub 11/11/16: 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.

Next City:  How transit fared in the 2016 election – $200 billion in transit funding was on the ballot in cities and counties across the U.S., the most in any single election in our country’s history. Of the 48 local and statewide public transit measures, 33 were approved. Many of the approved transit projects rely heavily on matching funds from the federal government. However, the GOP’s 2016 platform states that they seek to phase out the federal transit program.

The Village Voice: Meet Philly’s ‘super commuters’ who take the bus to NYC every day –  Philadelphia has around 42,000 “super commuters” who travel to a different city once or twice a week for work, placing it in the top five cities for super-commuting. Read what it’s like to be taking your 1330th Megabus commute to NYC.

MIT Technology Review: Uber’s new goal: flying cars in less than a decade – Sometime in the post-autonomous car future, but before teleport technology, Uber dreams of an on-demand urban aviation system.

Bloomburg Businessweek: This bike lane can save your life – While many motorists argue against bike lanes, well-connected and safe bike infrastructure actually makes cities healthier for all road-users. Once the bike lane network connects enough for a meaningful mode shift to occur, air quality improvements from fewer cars benefit everyone.

City Lab: Berlin’s most famous street will go car-free – Berlin’s grand Unter den Linden avenue – which contains museums, libraries, monuments, a university, and two opera houses – will be banned to private cars starting in 2019.

Image Source: MIT Technology Review