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- A rogue bike lane appears on Cleveland’s Detroit Avenue, and the city calls it “reckless.”
- The poorly painted lane prompts local news site Cleveland.com to ask if people should take municipal projects into their own hands, whether it’s laying down bike lanes, cutting grass on public lands or filling potholes.
- WayCount is looking for pre-orders on a $199 device that will allow you to count traffic and share the resulting data.
- The front page Los Angeles Times co-placement of a story on problems with the county foster system and a profile of Code for America leads one reader to write that “it didn’t take much to connect the dots.” That is, “the county should apply to Code for America to create an app that enables licensed foster homes to update their capacities and vacancies.”
- And that latter story also leads to a delightfully geeky correction: “ [A]n article about a nonprofit group called Code for America referred to Moncef Belyamani as an Android coder. Although Belyamani has done work testing Android apps, he codes in the Rails platform.”
- In a new policy paper on reforming the criminal justice system, senate candidate Cory Booker points to the “problem-solving approach” of Newark’s Youth Court, which “trains teenagers to serve as jurors, judges and advocates, handling real-life cases involving their peers.”
- The Dallas Morning News editorializes that attempting to pass Uber-restricting legislation without real vetting “was the worst possible way forward.”
- USA Today asks whether car sharing will replace car ownership.
- The Verge’s Ben Popper suggests that perhaps Americans are growing more comfortable with sharing because there are fewer serial killers around. And for that, suggests one psychology professor, we might have networked technologies to thank: “A Google search makes it more difficult to simply leave your history behind.”
- A commenter here wonders if Philly’s sponsor-a-station plan will route around “NIMBY conflicts” like one taking place over Chicago’s new Divvy bike share system.
- And it’s not that New York City is a rude place. It’s that some move through its spaces with “a sense of entitlement that the pace of this city cannot abide.” (via Natasha Chart)
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.