The Hub 4/27/18: 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: Councilman Domb’s modest proposal: ban on-street parking in Center City– Congestion in Center City is getting worse, and Councilman Alan Domb is advocating for the removal of street parking on selected Center City streets to make room for ride hailing and delivery vehicles. More people and things are being delivered to downtown residences and businesses than ever before, and we are going to need to get creative to manage it.

 

Mobility Lab: Is microtransit actually focused on providing “first mile” to transit? – Advocates of on demand microtransit tout its ability to connect people to efficient mass transit through first and last mile connection services. Some companies are succeeding in capturing more choice riders for transit, while others seem to tout these services as a greenwashing technique.

 

StreetsBlog: How to Not Be a Bully Behind the Wheel – Some quick tips on how to be a better multimodal citizen while driving if you must. Or at least how not to be terrible.

 

CityLab: Where Commuting Is Out of Control – In metros across the US, housing prices are pushing workers into far flung suburbs, creating throngs of “super commuters” who commute 90 minutes or more each day. This is a sign of economic growth and a case for increasing funding for transit infrastructure.

 

Next City: Bicycle Urbanism by Design – In an excerpt from his book “Copenhagenize” Mikael Colville-Andersen analyzes the divergent evolution of streets in the auto-centric USA and the cycle-centric Denmark. Harkening back to a time when streets were gathering places, before automakers claimed them as space for cars only.

 

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