A CaBi user rides past 1 Logan Circle in Washington, DC by Rex Block licensed under Creative Commons.

How bike share systems nationwide will feel the effect of Lyft’s decline. ADUs can help seniors age in place. Ithaca could be a model of decarbonization.

What Lyft’s decline means for bike share systems: Since 2018, the ride-hailing company Lyft has invested heavily in bike share systems and operations. Lyft runs the eight largest bike share networks in the country (including Capital Bikeshare in the Washington region) and also owns a national bike share equipment provider. But Lyft hasn’t recovered from the pandemic at the same pace as competitor Uber, and Alissa Walker wonders what the future of bike shares around the country might look like. (Alissa Walker | Curbed)

Helping seniors age in place: A majority of older Americans would prefer to make aging in place possible. Many aging adults are now considering accessory dwelling units (ADUs) that can be used in many ways: they can have their family move into the main house as they move to the ADU, they can have caretakers live in the ADU, or use the unit as supplemental income. (Meera Pal | Realtor.com)

The first all-electric city: In the winter of 2018, Ithaca, New York passed its own version of the Green New Deal and started moving to decarbonize 6,000 residential and commercial buildings, which make up 40% of the city’s emissions. To do this, Ithaca entered into a public-private partnership with BlocPower, a clean-tech startup, to retrofit the buildings. The city hopes to meet its goal of net-zero emissions by 2030. (Brian Kahn | Rolling Stone)

The city of the future: fewer cars, more money: Savings blogger Mr. Money Mustache calculates that if we got rid of car use, the United States could save $770 trillion over the next five decades. Not only that, we would have more space for housing and amenities that people enjoy. (Peter Adeney | Mr. Money Mustache)

Remote work could increase the costs of government: Remote work is taking off as many employees and some employers prefer the arrangement and the reduced costs. But for the public sector, remote work is a benefit that only some enjoy. Daniel DiSalvo and Michael Hartney argue because of employees’ value of a hybrid workplace, it could cost governments more to require full in-person work when union contracts are negotiated. (Daniel DiSalvo and Michael Hartney | Governing)

Quote of the Week

“I’m trying to tell people there’s a bigger issue here about civil rights. For people crossing the road, [change] only seems to happen when enough people pay for it in blood. … We built this environment, and often, people like me end up with disabilities because of how we built this environment. But we have the power to change it.”

Steven Hardy-Braz in Streetsblog USA discussing his fight for ADA access.

This week on the podcast we chat with David Hensher of the University of Sydney about the failures of the “Mobility as a Service” concept, which proposed to reduce emissions by uniting disparate transportation modes under a single service.