Most Uber and Lyft trips aren’t bolstering transportation options in transit deserts, but are being taken in majority white and more affluent neighborhoods.

Myth Busted: Uber and Lyft Aren’t Addressing Transit Deserts

Highways

‘Big Dig’ Producer Takes His Show On the Road With ‘Highway Teardown Tour’

Legislation

This Bill Would Give Your Community More Money To Build Its Own Transportation Future

StreetsblogUSA

NYC Bus Stops Are Clearer Than Ever, Thanks to Bus-Mounted Camera Enforcement

Jesse Coburn is a reporter at ProPublica after a stint as Streetsblog’s investigative reporter, where his reporting received a Polk Award, a Sigma Award, and awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+.

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Crashes

Trump’s U.S. DOT Is Rolling Back Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public

Elections and Politics

Space Case: Advocates Beg DOT Sec. Duffy to Fix Transit On Earth

Trump’s Transportation ‘Funding Freeze’ Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg, GAO Says

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A crowd of pedestrians in winter coats waits to cross a wide intersection with a tall art deco-style warehouse building in the distance on the far side of the crosswalk.

Street Design

Another Federal Funding Fumble: Boston Loses $8.15 Million for Safety Project At Deadly Fenway Intersection

Daily headlines

Thursday’s Headlines Take the Long View

A row of white electric bikes are parked next to each other on a brick plaza in front of a steel truss bridge visible in the distance. The bikes have the words "ValleyBike" on their downtubes.

Bicycling

Fair Share Funds Will Keep ValleyBike Growing In Western Mass.

Group of people walking toward the train doors on the North Station platform,

Uncategorized

Healey Admin. Announces Summer Fare Discounts, Including Free Fridays, on Commuter Rail System

Two people with Bluebikes wait to cross a wide street towards a park on the other side. On the horizon to the left are four glass towers in downtown Boston.

Monday’s Headlines Pedal Backwards

Jaime Moore-Carrillo is a journalist based in Boston. A Massachusetts native, Jaime has reported on transportation issues for The Boston Globe and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas.

A young man with light-colored skin and short brown hair.

Jaime Moore-Carrillo

A photo of UMass Transit employee Ash Larner driving a city bus don a downtown street. The photo is taken from behind the driver's seat of a city bus, with Larner's face visible in profile the rear-view mirror at upper right.