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The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.

Today’s newsletter features a dispatch from NYC, where City Hall wants the power to seize uncertified e-bike batteries, after the city has largely failed to thwart the number of structural fires caused by them — throwing into confusion the fates of delivery workers who are still using the banned batteries in the absence of broad measures to provide them with new equipment.

And the latest in the saga that began with USDOT’s un-painting of a rainbow crosswalk outside of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were massacred in 2016. Experts are split on whether vibrant road markings help reduce crashes with vulnerable road users or don’t do much at all, but Sec. Duffy wants these “political banners” gone.

Read that and more below:

  • Motorist Careens onto North Beach Sidewalk, Killing Pedestrian
    by The Editorial Team
    March 6, 2026

    Driver kills pedestrian at another location where a safety project festered

    The post Motorist Careens onto North Beach Sidewalk, Killing Pedestrian appeared first on Streetsblog San Francisco.

  • Streetsblog senior editor Kea Wilson sits down with Tiffanie Stanfield of Fighting H.A.R.D. to discuss hit-and-run crashes
    Friday Video: The H.A.R.D. Fight Against Hit-and-Runs
    by J.K. Trotter
    December 12, 2025
    Streetsblog USA senior editor Kea Wilson sits down with Tiffanie Stanfield of Fighting H.A.R.D.
  • Wednesday’ Headlines Are on Autopilot
    by Blake Aued
    December 10, 2025
    Don’t be afraid of regulating driverless cars out of existence, writes Angie Schmitt. The industry needs guardrails.
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