The Hub 8/10/18: 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.

 

Plan Philly: What a walk along Germantown Avenue reveals: Tough going for pedestrians – Clean Air Council’s pedestrian advocacy group, Feet First Philly, found many issues for pedestrians on Germantown Avenue after a walk audit last Friday. Recommendations from the audit will be brought to Germantown United CDC.

 

NPR: Hundreds Of Bikes Dumped At Dallas Recycling Center As Ofo Leaves Market – 5,000 yellow bikes were decommissioned as dockless bike share company Ofo retreated from Dallas last week. Though the company has vowed to donate bikes that are still in working order, only around 400 were donated. The rest were sold to recycling centers as scrap metal.

 

City Lab: Inside a Pedestrian-First ‘Superblock’ – Barcelona has been working to emphasize pedestrian infrastructure with the goal of reducing private car and moped use. “Superblocks” are 40 acre neighborhoods with limited car access. The space of intersections, on street parking and additional travel lanes has been given over to green space, biking and running routes, and play areas.

 

Next City: Transit Union Says It Will Refuse Special Accommodations for White Nationalists – ATU Local 689, the DC’s largest transit union, has stated that they will refuse to give special treatment to a hate group after DC’s Metro announced that they were considering providing separate cars for white supremacists for their rally this weekend to protect them from counter protesters.

 

Philly.com: Where are you most likely to be killed by a car in Philadelphia? (Hint: Not Center City) –  Much of the visible cycling advocacy occurs in center city and the adjacent neighborhoods, yet cyclists risk their lives all across the city every day. The communities in North Philadelphia and the Lower Northeast have well above the city average of deaths per year.

 

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