The buses of New York City

In the weeks leading up to #ValentinesDay, around 500 (!) truckloads of roses leave Miami every day, turning #Miami from a "freight desert" into a #trucking hot-spot. "When those flowers start moving, man, it gets crazy." — Robert Rouse, DAT Freight & Analytics. 🌹

Per Jaan of the EVwire.com ⚡'s very cool spreadsheet #Italy is the only country out of 36 where 2022 #EVsales have gone down compared to 2021. Italy had -26.7% EVs sold at 49,536 units. 🤔 evuniverse.io/newsletter/ev-…

Tesla will open up part of its charging network to other EVs to help chip away at the Biden administration's ambitious US charging goal. But while highway charging is important, chargers still need to meet people where they're at ⤵️ businessinsider.com/ev-charging-hi… via Business Insider

Some time ago an investor told me putting money in coastal #highways is a bad idea because of rising sea levels. I've been thinking about how #climatechange will affect infrastructure ever since. This week, I got to write about it for Insider 👇 businessinsider.com/climate-change…

Truckers over a billion hours sitting in traffic every year, making shipping even more expensive. See the 10 worst bottlenecks. businessinsider.com/worst-highway-…

The train Biden took out of war-torn Ukraine traveled approximately 365 miles over roughly 8 hours. Or 45 mph. That’s the same, very slow average speed trains run along many of Amtrak’s long distance routes. It is worth noting here that the U.S. is not under siege.

The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

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I spent one full day sending over 30 emails to departments of transportation across the country for this one. It was fun! My favorite is MDOT "Baby Yoda uses the Force but still needs a carseat." businessinsider.com/funny-highway-…

Hopeless. Terrible. Why can't they just build a calculator into it

Delta pilots are getting a massive raise as airlines battle a persistent labor shortage trib.al/i3JsH1I

One of the things I enjoy most about journalism is just getting to chat with people and ask them all about their interesting lives.

I fly back home from New York to Milan at least twice a year. That's 4 flights, over 16,000 miles, and 5.29 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and more than what a standard gas-based car emits in a year. businessinsider.com/sustainable-ai…

Hard to know where to start to say how much Sylvia Poggioli will be missed @npr. Thank you for 41 years bringing us the news from Italy & the world beyond! npr.org/sections/npr-e…

So proud of Tomas Navia for the work, energy, commitment, and faith he put in this project.

my AWARD WINNING bestie!!!!!

Great article Latitude Media Bianca Giacobone - we appreciate the deep dive into the Southern Company WeaveGrid partnership latitudemedia.com/news/how-south…