Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- Where’s My School Bus? goes school system-wide in Boston, giving caregivers and kids a way to track, via student I.D., where their bus is along their route. The site began life as a Code for America project, and a weekend one at that, meant to, per 2011 Boston CfA fellow Joel Mahoney, prove that student data could be handled well and “to demonstrate to the city what could happen if they loosen up a little.”
- The Washington Post‘s editorial board calls for the abolition of the D.C. Taxicab Commission over its handling of Uber. The head of the commission says his reaction is “one of sadness that editorial writers don’t know what they’re talking about.”
- The New Republic’s Marc Tracy gets advice from New York City Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson on what he should have said when, while out riding a Citi Bike, someone yelled, “You’re on a clunker, it’s just a billboard for the bank!”
- Looking to London’s survival of the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 as a reminder that current conditions are not always immutable.
- Cyclists in South Florida want protected bike lanes, and they’re not alone.
- Bike lanes come in all sorts of colors. Denver’s new one is lime green.
- Residents in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood are self-organizing to start rebuilding their environment — and talking about it amongst themselves.
- Bangladesh fights over who has rights to pavements.
- Texas expands its cottage food law so that home bakers can sell not just at home, but at farm stands, fairs, farmers markets, and beyond — though they’re finding some of those venues still wary.
- Does peer-to-peer house cleaning make sense?
- “A Tale of Two Bike Shares.”
- And Huntsville, Ala. is considering letting food trucks operate downtown on more than just Thursday and Friday nights.
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.