TN MOVING STORIES: Copenhagen's Bike Superhighway Open, Boston Doubles Transit Security Cameras, Prostitutes Destroy Traffic Signs in Auckland

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DC’s Silver Line Reaches Construction Milestone (link)
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Westchester: You’re Throwing Us a Three-Mile Transit Bone on the Tappan Zee Bridge; Give Us Nine More, Please (link)

Copenhagen bike riders signal for a turn. (Photo CC by Flickr user Mikael Colville-Andersen)

Denmark's biking superhighway -- an 11-mile-long path between Copenhagen and Albertslund-- is now open for business. And: city employees armed with chocolates are handing them out to cyclists who adhere to the rules of cycling. (New York Times)

Construction is underway on San Francisco's Central Subway -- even though the city's MTA doesn't know if the federal government will award it almost $1 billion in funding. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Chicago's transit authority wants to spend $205 million to upgrade its bus and rail repair facilities. (Chicago Tribune)

Boston is doubling the number of security cameras it has on its transit system. (AP via WBUR)

San Francisco's Muni paid thousands of dollars in bonuses to top executives for meeting or exceeding on-time performance goals, even as the agency inflated its on-time rates by as much as 18 percent. (Bay Citizen)

The Ohio governor's plan to privatize the Ohio Turnpike was overwhelmingly panned in its first public hearing. (Plain Dealer)

Following a heat-related derailment, Metro officials have revised their criteria for determining when to slow train speeds during periods of extreme heat. (Washington Post)

Dozens of traffic signs have been destroyed in one Auckland neighborhood because "prostitutes use these street sign poles as dancing poles...The poles are part of their soliciting equipment and they often snap them." (Telegraph)

The U.S. is sending TSA agents to Britain to provide additional security for U.K. airports during the Olympics. (New York Daily News)

DC's cabbies, riding a wave of new taxi regulations, "now waver between outrage and despair." (Washington Post)

A parking-garage employee drove a sport-utility vehicle into an open elevator shaft, injuring two workers and wedging an automobile inside the Upper East Side facility. (Wall Street Journal)

Over 200 London cabbies blocked traffic in Parliament Square for two hours Tuesday to protest the controversial Olympic Route Network along the city's roadways. (Atlantic Cities)