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Will Transit Agencies Fight Or Yield To The Self-Driving Revolution?
Brad Templeton • Forbes
Transit operators and transit fans have, since almost the beginning, cast a wary eye on the arrival of the self-driving car, and in particular the robotaxi…
Electric Vehicles Don’t Break The Grid, And They Can Help Boost It
David Waterworth • Clean Technica
“If everyone came home at the end of the day and plugged in their electric car to charge, the grid would fail. We will all end up having to live like the Amish. Electric car drivers are just virtue signaling hypocrites as long as there is [insert any number here] fossil fuels powering the grid. The sky is falling,” exclaims Chicken Little. “So it is,” agrees Turkey Lurkey…
Compromises in Democrats’ climate bill will hit communities facing most pollution hardest, critics say
Bill Keveney • USA Today
Critics question whether the Inflation Reduction Act will help people of color and low-income communities as intended…
Feds give Pittsburgh $11.3 million to rebuild Hill District’s city steps, sidewalks
Kiley Koscinski • 90.5 WESA
Biden administration transportation officials joined Pittsburgh regional leaders Thursday to celebrate a monumental investment in the city’s Hill District neighborhood…
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars
Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman, and Brad Plumer • The New York Times
California regulators on Thursday will vote to put in place a sweeping plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars, state officials said, a move that the state’s governor described as the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine…
Pennsylvania updates 12-Year Program to identify, prioritize transportation projects
Melina Druga • Transportation Today
The Pennsylvania State Transportation Commission (STC) recently updated the 12-Year Program, a multimodal, fiscally constrained planning tool used to identify and prioritize transportation projects and the funding needed to complete them…
A Pa. House committee killed oil and gas regulations. Now half a billion dollars of federal funding is at risk.
Ethan Dodd • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A state House committee chaired by Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, rejected a much-delayed emissions regulation this month, possibly jeopardizing over half a billion dollars in federal highway funds Pennsylvania could use to maintain its deficient roads and bridges…
Pittsburgh tests program to provide free transportation for lower-income residents
Kiley Koscinski • 90.5 WESA
Pittsburgh is launching a pilot program that will provide 50 city residents with free access to public transportation and other alternate means of transportation for one year…
The Long Road to Mass EV Adoption
Jarod Facundo • The American Prospect
A new tax credit of $4,000 for used electric vehicles could give people a boost toward buying a zero-emissions car. But there are still a lot of hurdles…
How the New Climate Bill Would Reduce Emissions
Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer • The New York Times
A major climate and energy package passed by Congress on Friday would put the United States much closer to its goal of cutting global warming pollution in half by 2030, several independent analyses have concluded…
The Climate Bill Isn’t Perfect, but It’s Still a Major Victory
Jody Freeman • The New York Times
In an ideal world, the climate provisions approved by Congress this week as part of the Inflation Reduction Act would directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and discourage the use of fossil fuels…
Transit Is Seeing More Cyber Threats, Many Agencies Aren’t Ready
Skip Descant Government • Technology
With technology advancements in public transit comes more concerns around cybersecurity. And agencies need to place security and technical expertise at the height of the management food chain, often in the form of a chief information security officer…
