While electrification is not enough to curb the effects of car-centric transportation, it should be available to everyone—especially Black and Latino communities disproportionately affected by air pollution.

The “urban renewal” days of highway building divided communities, so President Biden and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg must ensure that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is more than a down payment on highway removal.

The Equiticity-organized “Reimagining Mobility in North Lawndale” walking tour looks at various parts of the Chicago neighborhood and its relationship to local mobility options like cycling, walking, bikeshare, and transit. Learn about last week’s event and Equiticity’s related project, The Go Hub, on Streetsblog.

Violent crime and dangerous situations make it difficult for ridehail drivers to jump back on the platform, even with company incentives. Looks like Uber and Lyft will need to zero in on better safety features if they want drivers to get behind the wheel.

A new study out of the Alabama Transportation Institute looks at how on-demand ridehail trips affect children in terms of safety standards and car seat laws. (It cites Georgia and Indiana as having the clearest laws.)

Backed by a cool $30 million in new funding, Hive Technologies, an electric vehicle leasing startup, is set on getting more EVs in the hands of ridehail drivers.

Our CEO Benjie de la Peña sat down with The Washington Post to discuss how the proliferation of micromobility use in the U.S. is shifting how we get around cities and communities, how the pandemic factors in, and the importance of building the right infrastructure.

It’s the halfway point for the Better Bikeshare Partnerships’ five Living Labs programs that develop innovative, equitable solutions for bikeshare. See how all the projects—including Chicago’s Northwest Center, featured during our 2021 Summit Mobility Justice Spotlight—are faring.

One New York coalition, the Equitable Commute Project, is working to overcome e-bike barriers of entry by partnering with cycle makers, frontline employers, and local organizations to give workers a two-wheeled, emissions-free introduction to the e-bike revolution.

With violent attacks against public transit workers in Chicago increasing, CTA drivers are demanding safety protections like a dedicated police force and are willing to take “drastic measures” to get the city to listen.

College is hard enough without a four-hour commute. Good thing institutions like American University and Chattanooga State Community College offer free or affordable transportation passes to students that research shows help keep students enrolled.

PODCAST: It all comes down to funding, and Keyframe Capital partner Ben Birnbaum makes investment choices that shape the future of mobility, electrification, and automation. Transloc’s Movement podcast finds out what he’s thinking.

While the realization of Mobility as a Service (MaaS)—with integrated points of entry to more transportation options—has faced unwieldy obstacles with pandemic and technical issues, cities like Pittsburgh and Tokyo are implementing MaaS programs that get people out of their cars.

In electrification news, Volkswagen is partnering with Umicore, 24M Technologies, and Vulcan Energy Resources for electric vehicle battery production to boost battery cell innovation and move the company’s fleet towards all EVs.

Autonomous tech is the focus of automaker Daimler and driverless innovation maven Waymo. The companies are prototyping a chassis system for self-driving, long-haul trucking that includes extra steering, braking, power, and communication safety measures to mitigate operational risk.

Why does the U.S. spend so much on infrastructure? Comparing the U.S. to European and Asian cities, over-design, inefficient project management, and misaligned politics keep expenses astronomically high.

REPORT: The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy details why compact cities built with pedestrian, cycling, public transit-centered infrastructure, and a rapid, strategic transition to EVs are crucial to reducing transportation’s carbon footprint.

A study commissioned by NYC’s MTA validates the case for congestion pricing. Preliminary analysis of three scenarios shows the toll would create a significant cut in vehicle miles traveled inside Manhattan and a sizable drop for the entire city.