Monday’s Headlines 6/1/20

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)