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Participant in the PGH Lab 7.0 cohort, Armin Samii, and his startup called Dashcam for your Bike has released its first report last week that offers a street-by-street look at the parts of the city where bicyclists are running into obstructions and challenges while using Pittsburgh's dedicated bicycle lane network. According to a quote from DOMI's Rylan Seifert on the mobile app's website, "This data will be used to inform DOMI's efforts to create a safe and connected bike network that increases access for people of all ages and abilities." The app intends to do so by enabling bicyclists an easy path to submitting 311 reports through the app which, in turn, help the city prioritize improvements. To participate, cyclists can download the app for Android or iPhone and begin recording their ride. When encountering a hazard in Pittsburgh, you can tap the screen to add a marker, and then when finishing your ride, return to the marker, hit Share, and then choose to Report to 311. Note: The map shown above (a screenshot taken from the app's website) does not represent the most dangerous areas of the city for cycling, rather it represents the areas where the most hazards have been reported by users.

Remaining in place from The northern sidewalk along O'Hara Street in front of the O'Hara Garage and former LRDC remains closed with construction fencing in place throughout construction. 

Transportation officials joined Pittsburgh regional leaders on Thursday, August 25, to 

One service in Jersey City, NJ, for example, has serviced more than 1 million rides since February 2020 through their on-demand microtransit system – a service model developed to fill gaps in tradi

In a RABA Research poll that comes just a few months after lawmakers in PA House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow autonomous vehicle companies to test their cars on public roads without a human in the car to take over in case of emergency, more than half of survey respondents say they are still either "somewhat uncomfortable" or "very uncomfortable" sharing the road with "highly automated, driverless vehicles." Sixty percent said they would be more likely to support a politician who supported requiring a human safety operator for driverless cars and trucks, although 64% were also unaware that PA was considering new self-driving testing regulations at all. The bill is up for consideration in PA Senate this fall. Fully autonomous testing is legal in several other states already, and some PA Senate leadership say they're eager to keep up in order to maintain Pittsburgh's status as a hub for the autonomous industry. The research notes that Pennsylvanians' comfort level with self-driving vehicles decreases as vehicles get larger – with 38% comfortable sharing the road with driverless small cars, but only 17% comfortable sharing the road with autonomous trucks – which are actually arguably the furthest along among autonomous vehicle testing in our state to date thanks to Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking companies like Aurora and Locomation (which hopes to deploy its autonomous trucks as soon as 2023). On the flip side, 31% of Pittsburghers polled by PennDOT actually hold a "very positive" opinion of autonomous vehicles – compared to only 11% of Pennsylvanians not in Pittsburgh feeling the same way. PennDOT researchers this year also found that many people are confused about what automation really means, as well, so the regulator is expected to publish the full results of its survey along with some definitions of what automation looks like for Pennsylvania's roads sometime this fall.

Last week, an editor from The National Observer reviewed the latest 2021 American Community Survey data from the U.S.