TN MOVING STORIES: New Car Fuel Efficiency Hits All-Time High, NYC Bike Share Software "Just Doesn't Work Yet," Miami Metrorail Reaches Airport

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Delhi bus (photo by carlosfpardo via flickr)

The average fuel efficiency of new cars hit an all-time in the first half of this year. (USA Today)

What's behind the delay of NYC's bike share program? Beyond the nebulous "software" problem, no one really knows. (New York Times)

And the NYC mayor is not providing any new details: tweet from Dana Rubinstein of Capital New York: @MikeBloomberg offers no new details on delays in Citi Bike: saying, as he did last week, the software "just doesn't work yet."

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed bills aimed at increasing transparency at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and requiring participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. (Star Ledger)

Meanwhile, one of Christie's rejected state Supreme Court nominees got a high-ranking job at the Port Authority. (The Record)

DOT head Ray LaHood: new federal oversight of urban transit systems will make them safer. (Fast Lane)

In New Delhi, the average wait time on one of the city’s 517 bus routes is 70 minutes. Yes, you read that right. (Atlantic Cities)

After a 28-year wait, Metrorail will finally reach Miami International Airport starting tomorrow. (Miami Herald)

Thelma McWilliams Glass, a civil rights activist who played a role in starting the Montgomery bus boycotts, died July 24. “When I looked at that bus as it passed my house and nobody was on it, it was a feeling of joy that will be with me forever,” Mrs. Glass told the Montgomery Advertiser in 2004, reflecting on the first day of the boycott. “I had the idea that maybe we were finally going to be successful in getting everybody to cooperate." (Washington Post)

Ford is recalling 485,000 Escape SUVs from the 2001-04 model years because their throttles could stick during heavy acceleration. (Detroit Free Press)

And the winner of America's best transit agency is....SEPTA! Wait, what?  (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Residents of Scottsdale are turning the cold shoulder to a proposal that would allow ice cream trucks to ply city streets for the first time since the 1970s. (NPR)

Amtrak's $7 billion renovation of DC's Union Station is "amazingly costly" and places "emphasis on doing stuff that has no really clear operational benefits." (Slate)

A new technology, installed on buses in Seoul, spritzes the aroma of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee inside the buses every time the company’s ads play on loudspeakers. "According to the campaign, when the devices were installed, the aromatizers were spritzing the fumes of coffee into the faces of more than 350,000 commuters while on their daily ride to work." (BostInno via Transit Wire).  And it may work: sales increased 29%.

The king of Thailand updated rules on motorcades and public appearances by the Thai royal family in an effort to ease Bangkok's infamous traffic jams. (AP via Washington Post)