The Hub 5/25/18: 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: City Council tweaks bill requiring developers to provide more parking in Philly neighborhoods– Councilwoman Blackwell has introduced another bill putting cars first in city planning. The proposed bill would increase parking requirements for new development. Opponents of the bill, including Clean Air Council, argue that the bill is regressive and will drive up the cost of housing as well as car dependency city wide.

 

Philadelphia Citizen: Ditch the Car – In a guest commentary for Philadelphia Citizen, architect Ryan Lohbauer presents a compelling argument for incentivising car owning Philadelphians to give up their automobile. His idea is for the city to offer a significant wage tax credit to households that switch to a car-free lifestyle.

 

StreetsBlog: Five Ground Rules to Help Cities Get the Most Out of Dockless Bike-Share – Dockless bike shares are popping up worldwide and have had some serious growing pains. Here are some tips that could help metros roll out a dockless system that is safe and equitable.

 

CityLab: An Artist’s Serious Devotion to the Subway – The subway stations of New York City are adorned with mosaics in various states of disrepair. Artists, archivist, and railfan Philip Ashforth Coppola has made it his life’s work to document the mosaics both as they are and as they were. His detailed illustrations preserve the stations as they were in their prime, when New York’s subway was a groundbreaking achievement.

 

Next City:  Milwaukee’s Workforce Shortage Is Really a Transit Shortage – Companies who relocate to the Milwaukee region  seem to have trouble filling jobs. Meanwhile, there are tens of thousands of workers clustered in the neighborhoods isolated by redlining. Because corporations are choosing sites in the suburbs, workers who live in the city and depend on transit are left out of the equation.

 

Photo Source: City Lab