Thursday’s High-Tech Headlines

• V2X technology allowing vehicles to communicate with each other is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s “moonshot” toward Vision Zero. (Bloomberg)
• Cities are using new technology to change the way they use curbs; for example, installing sensors to restrict loading zones to emissions-free vehicles. (Government Technology)
• Technology can also help make streets safer by helping to identify dangerous corridors and enforce traffic laws. (American City and County)
• New Rochelle, New York — split in half by a six-lane highway in 1958 — is one of 130 communities using federal funding to stitch themselves back together. (Smart Cities Dive)
• Doom Loop roundup:
  • The CEO of Pittsburgh Regional Transit warned skeptical state legislators that without state funding, Pittsburgh will became a place where people need a car to live. (Post Gazette)
  • San Francisco’s transit agencies could face a budget deficit of up to $700 million by 2027. (Examiner, ABC 7)
  • Virginia officials are looking for a long-term solution to the D.C. Metro’s funding woes. (Mercury)
  • Dallas Area Rapid Transit passed a new budget without service cuts, but still smaller than what staff recommended. (KERA)
  • The Memphis Area Transit Authority cut five bus routes in the midst of a dispute with the city over releasing funds in a timely fashion. (MLK50)
• A $17 billion transit referendum in Gwinnett, Georgia’s second-largest county, is on the ballot in November. Previous efforts to join Atlanta transit agency MARTA failed, but this time the county is proposing its own system. (Urbanize Atlanta)
• The D.C. Metro is returning to automated trains 15 years after it stopped using them in the wake of a deadly crash. (Washington Post)
• New batteries will allow Seattle trolley buses to travel three times farther off-wire. (The Urbanist)
• An Amtrak route between Chicago and Miami will temporarily pass through North Carolina to avoid tunnel repairs in New York. (Blue Ridge Public Radio)
• Angie Schmitt writes about life in her (almost) 15-minute neighborhood in Cleveland. (Unpopular Opinions)

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