The industry is seeing uneven support despite high ridership numbers.

“Is U.S. micromobility industry on the brink of a breakthrough? Or is the bottom about to drop out?” asks Kea Wilson in Streetsblog USA.
The signs are, in some ways, all over the place: while docked bike share systems are clocking record rides, “roaring back from pandemic-era lows and eclipsing last year’s record-setting trip numbers with reported 71.5 million journeys across U.S. and Canada in 2022,” operators like Lyft are pulling back on their systems and publicly subsidized systems are running out of funding, while dockless operators feel maligned and over-regulated.
The debate over whether shared micromobility systems should be part of public transit systems or receive public funding at all continues. “If holding the bike- and scooter-share universe captive to the whims of private shareholders feels inherently unstable, some micromobility leaders argue that holding it captive to the whims of transit-hostile U.S. governments is unstable, too — and while they say those governments shouldn't charge micromobility companies to operate on their roads, lest they be forced to pass those costs along to riders, governments also shouldn't necessarily be counted on to keep fleets running.”
FULL STORY: Micromobility Is Having a Weird Year

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San Francisco Suspends Traffic Calming Amidst Record Deaths
Citing “a challenging fiscal landscape,” the city will cease the program on the heels of 42 traffic deaths, including 24 pedestrians.

Defunct Pittsburgh Power Plant to Become Residential Tower
A decommissioned steam heat plant will be redeveloped into almost 100 affordable housing units.

Trump Prompts Restructuring of Transportation Research Board in “Unprecedented Overreach”
The TRB has eliminated more than half of its committees including those focused on climate, equity, and cities.

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