Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- A Vancouver group is attempting to make those city’s alleyways, “often marked by garbage, filth and the acrid stench of urine,” into something more livable.
- The Dallas Morning News editorializes that the apparent machinations around whether Uber should operate in the city raises troubling questions about “the kind of government we want and need in Dallas.”
- Local officials in Toronto are pushing to revive an environmental assessment of one day having a separated bike lane on Bloor Street.
- The New York Times’ Seth Kugel learns it’s a challenge to find someone to share the ride from New York to Baton Rouge.
- An event notice for you New Yorkers: A panel discussion on the role of technology in the New York City mayoral race called “Campaigning in the Digital City” will be taking place tonight at Baruch College.
- What Airbnb users could make for renting out rooms in the vicinity of New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium over Super Bowl weekend.
- Airbnb has hired Chip Conley, a hotel industry veteran, as its head of “global hospitality.”
- Here’s a brief history of the brand identity of London’s transportation system.
- California’s Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote tonight on whether to formally create a “transportation network company” category that would validate ride-share programs like Lyft, Sidecar, and UberX.
- And the government hacking group Code for America launches local “brigades” in 15 new cities, including Houston, Durham and Salt Lake City.
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.