Our weekly “New Starts” roundup of new and newsworthy transportation projects worldwide. Despite the protests that have cropped up in several state capitals, it’s likely that the U.S. economy will be pulled out of its coma slowly and gradually over a period of months, and it’s also possible that restrictions will be reimposed when, as most medical experts expect, new infections rise after the economy restarts. Nonetheless, we are now at the point where we can see the outlines of a post-COVID...

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Chris Yarzab / CC BY 2.0) Our weekly “New Starts” roundup of new and newsworthy transportation developments worldwide. Transit Is the Bedrock of Urban Civilization, Says Influential Thinker When you consider who is still riding mass transit now that the only ones riding are making “essential” trips, a leading thinker about mass transit service says we should stop talking about the “transit-dependent,” for that term actually describes all of us. In a CityLab essay that has gained wide notice,...