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Sustainable Transport Is About Much More Than Electrification
James Morris • Forbes
Arguments around sustainable transport get more complicated the closer you look…
Detroit highway to become boulevard to address wrongs to Black communities
David Shepardson • Reuters
A Detroit interstate highway whose construction devastated two historically Black neighborhoods will be turned into an urban boulevard – one of 26 major infrastructure projects that will be newly funded by the Biden administration…
Elections & autonomous cars are likely on the Pa. legislature’s fall agenda
Sam Dunklau • 90.5 WESA
State lawmakers have only a few weeks worth of business days planned between now and the end of session on November 30th. But that’s not stopping either chamber from considering a few bills before then…
Why urban streets around the world are going car-free
Liam Mays • CNBC
Cities around the world are proposing to replace the space taken up by parked cars with usable areas for people…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit begins long process of a zero-emission bus fleet by 2045
Ed Blazina • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
If CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman could change Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s 715 diesel buses to run on electricity or hydrogen with the flip of a switch or by writing a check, she would do it immediately…
Against federal guidance, states plan to expand highways
Joseph Winters • Grist
A new report says money from the infrastructure package could be funneled to “highway boondoggles”…
Here’s what’s next following Pittsburgh region’s ‘Build Back Better’ win of $62.7 million
Nate Doughty • Pittsburgh Business Journal
A robotics manufacturing hub. A “startup factory” for budding robotics companies. Expanded job opportunities and resources for those seeking new economy careers or for those looking to become entrepreneurs…
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…