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Lyft is recycling its e-bike and scooter batteries with Redwood Materials - The Verge
By ANDREW J. HAWKINS The companies will work together to collect, process, and recycle the batteries from Lyft’s shared micromobility operations, which includes popular systems like Citi Bike in New York City. Lyft is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded by a former Tesla executive, to ensure its fleet of shared e-bikes and scooters have a second life. It’s a noteworthy deal considering Lyft’s status as the largest electric bike-share operato
What Comes Next After Abolishing Parking Mandates? - StrongTowns
By Tony Jordan It should not surprise anyone that parking reform is sweeping the nation. It’s not often that policymakers have an opportunity to make a simple change that simultaneously makes it easier to build abundant affordable housing, helps small businesses, encourages transit use, is rock-solid climate action, and actually saves the city money. In the last 30 days alone, four U.S. cities have seized this opportunity and repealed costly parking mandates entirely (Lexingt
Zero-Emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
The City Fix By Hamilton Steimer and Vishant Kothari Urban freight and delivery services boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers switched to online shopping when businesses were forced to close. The surge in online market activity that began in 2020 builds on a decade of steady growth related to the development of new delivery services, changing demographics and globalizing supply chains. Rising urban freight and delivery activity produces serious environmental and h
Bikes Win Big at the Polls - People for Bikes
By: Kyler Blodgett, state and local policy analyst On November 8, voters across the country approved nearly $3.6 billion dollars in local funding for new bicycle infrastructure, all of which were opportunities that PeopleForBikes tracked and raised awareness for through our VoteForBikes campaign. This money will go towards better on-street biking and walking infrastructure, new trail systems, park construction, and other active transportation improvements. The November electi
Without New Regulations, Self-Driving Cars Could Make Our Transportation System Even Worse
Nextcity By YONAH FREEMARK OP-ED Op-ed: In the decade or so before driverless cars roll out en masse, lawmakers must take the time to develop regulations that maximize their benefits and minimize their harms. Autonomous vehicles (AVs), or self-driving cars, have enormous potential and could transform the surface transportation system. By allowing drivers to become passengers, AVs could give hundreds of millions of people around the world hours of time back. If they’re safer
SeattleDOT launches program encouraging people to bike, scoot to transit - MyNorthwest
BY MICKI GAMEZ KIRO Newsradio Traffic Reporter Seattle’s Department of Transportation just launched a new pilot program to motivate people to bike or scoot their way to transit. SDOT’s Deputy Press Secretary Mariam Ali said those who use transit can take any bike or scooter share to select transit hubs and save up to $8 on trips, plus discounted trips, free mobile transit tickets, and transit-go reward points to use on future trips. Ali says the program will last until March
The Pandemic Bike Boom Survives—in Cities That Stepped Up - Wired
Covid lockdowns prompted a surge of new cyclists. But the trend has faltered in places that didn't build bike-friendly infrastructure. In 18 YEARS working in bicycles, Eric Bjorling had never seen anything like April 2020. With no end to the pandemic in sight, people were desperate for things to do. “They had time on their hands, they had kids, they needed to physically go outside and do something,” says Bjorling, head of brand marketing at Trek Bicycles, one of the largest b
Pete Buttigieg on Redesigning Cities for Bike & Ped - Fast Company
Hundreds of millions of dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are starting to flow to new bike and pedestrian infrastructure around the country, from a new bike and pedestrian bridge that connects neighborhoods to jobs in downtown Phoenix, to a new greenway in St. Louis, Missouri. It’s one way that the law is helping shrink transportation emissions, along with new funding to electrify ports, more money for trains and public transit, and $7.5 billion for a new EV char
