What We're Reading: Dirty Management, Drunk Reporting, and Streetcar Renaissance

Bike and car biz: Lyft is now the biggest bikeshare company in America. Better things to do: Why aren’t the Millennials joining country clubs? Speeding up LRT: San Jose plans to speed up its at-grade light rail system in a trial program while improving overall safety for all. Dirty management: Scott Pruitt has resigned from the United States Environmental Protection Agency ending a tenure of terror against the environment. Microtransit: While newfangled microtransit failing rapidly, community shuttle services are successful. Environmental hazard: Air pollution from the 4th of July is very noticeable in data. Security theater: In Washington, D.C., the National Zoo is proposing to close of nearly all public entrances to the zoo, despite the zoo being in the middle of a large park and entirely free to visitors. Drunk reporting: PBS really botch it in sharing false talking points that pedestrian deaths increases are due to drunk walking. E-scooter bonanza: Portland is allowing and setting a cap on e-scooters. Blok: In Edmonds, a new kind of low-income housing is getting built at a local church ($). Pro-we the people: Despite the federal regime’s racist and inhumane policies against immigrants, Americans are increasingly supporting immigration. Equitable development: Africatown in the Central Area is getting more than $1 million in equitable development initiative funding. Streetcar renaissance KCMO: The New York Times hails the Kansas City Streetcar as the best way to see the city ($). Discouraging predatory practices: Los Angeles could end up requiring banks to disclose unethical lending practices. Blocked again: The federal regime lost a case to block a sanctuary city in California.