Monday’s Headlines 6/1/20
Person killed while walking in West Denver. We're still doing this (really?): resident fights bike lanes in his neighborhood. Fed seeks to increase driving post-pandemic. More headlines.
8:16 AM GMT-0700 on June 1, 2020
Traffic Violence
- Driver hits, kills person walking on Irving Shared Street in Westwood neighborhood of Denver (Denver Police)
From Streetsblog
- Feds seek incentives to encourage driving (which will accelerate the other pandemic — traffic violence) (Streetsblog USA)
- Meanwhile: Gridlock returns to SoMa (Streetsblog SF)
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
George Floyd Protests
- Your reminder that cars can be used as weapons:
- Denver driver runs car into protestors (twice) (Denver Post, 9News, CBS Denver)
- NYPD out of control: Videos depict cops ramming squad cars into protesters (Streetsblog USA)
- MTA bus driver refuses to help cops haul off anti-brutality protesters (Streetsblog NY)
- Silence is no longer acceptable (Toole Design)
Metro News
- Parking “controversy” strikes again: Will Cap Hill bike lanes remove hundreds of parking spaces? (Westword)
- RTD continues service suspension downtown through Monday (Westword)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 7 a.m.: 37 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 47 (Good).
Centennial State & Beyond
- To exit the crisis, rethink our [transit] goals (Canadian Urban Transit Association)
- Poor and black ‘invisible cyclists’ need to be part of post-pandemic transport planning too (The Conversation)
- Oh great, now we’re running out of bikes (Vox)
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