News Roundup: Don’t Just Rebuild

• Who decides if robots can drive? It shouldn't be the companies racing to build them.
• The real driver of regional inequality in America.
• Here's the real nightmare scenario for self-driving cars.
• Not a done deal: Convention center expansion could face fight in city hall.
• Tampa Bay's new transit goal: Dedicated BRT lanes from St. Pete to USF Tampa.
• Feds to dig in on high costs of NYC transit construction.
• New interview of Jarrett Walker: On transit, home, NIMBYism, pipe cleaners. Everyone should listen to the Overhead Wire, but this episode even more so.
• Only a few American cities are growing transit ridership - here's what they're doing right.
• Legislature puts lid on tolls ($) as part of Tacoma Narrows Bridge loan.
• Kitsap Transit executive director talks route changes, fast ferries during community meeting.
• Debate continues in Kent over light rail station details.
• Pierce Transit weighs bus lane options for Pacific Avenue BRT.
• America begins capping the scars of freeways past.
• Albany punts ($) on clearing Manhattan's clogged streets.
• Downtown Vancouver to Seattle flights imminent.
• Plight of Spring: Insane crowding on the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Washington's loneliest road - from Dusty to Dodge - was one of the state's first highways.
• New arboretum trail daylights creek, gives greater access to wetlands. The west side is a great bike thoroughfare, too, although the arboretum folks seem to be at pains not to point that out.
• Rainier Avenue's second phase of improvements lacks vision.
• De Blasio administration may ditch planned streetcar along Brooklyn-Queens waterfront.
• With L Train shutdown a year off, Lower Manhattan braces for upheaval ($).
• As shared scooters invade, cities must decide whose vehicles belong.
• Don't just rebuild the collapsed pedestrian bridge in Miami. This proposal doesn't stand a chance in hell, but the authors are absolutely right: pedestrian bridges are usually a capstone of failed street design.

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