The Hub 3/1/19: 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.

 

PlanPhilly: Slow your roll: Safety worries could delay electric scooters’ ride into Philly  – City Council held an informational hearing on the topic of electric scooters in Philadelphia. Electric scooter share could increase car-free mobility for many areas of the city. City transportation officials want to implement dockless bikes safely, and then tackle the issue of scooters.

 

Philly.com:  SEPTA gives its bus network map an upgrade – SEPTA has released a long overdue network-wide bus map. The transit agency has the maps posted on its website for public comment. The map is designed to show bus route frequency as well as location. While not exactly to scale, the map shows a big picture view of SEPTA’s extensive bus coverage and can help people get around sustainably.

 

Smart Cities Dive: Tampa Bay, FL businesses form transportation nonprofit  – Local businesses are taking transportation into their own hands in Tampa Bay, FL. The Tampa Bay Mobility Alliance plans to work with the three counties they represent, along with state and federal agencies to create mobility solutions for the region. The hope is that having a business association behind these public projects will prompt an influx of private funding for things like new bus routes.

 

Strong Towns: Using Data to Improve Your Town’s Parking Planning – Parking debates can become heated and emotional, but there are real facts and data that can drive parking policy. Studying where parking is used most and communicating the benefits of paid parking are essential to effectively framing the trade-off of free parking for parking that is available and convenient.

 

City Lab: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Public Transit Seat Covers of the World – City Lab has cataloged transit seat covers from all across the globe. Moquette has long been the fabric of choice for metro upholstery. Its close pile still looks fresh after months of use. Busy patterns are used to avoid large solid patches of color that easily show stains. For decades the line has been towed between effective stain hiding and migraine-inducing busyness.

 

Image Source: City Lab