TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

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Rookie Officer Killed, Eight Injured in Crash of NYPD Van (link)

MONDAY LINKS:

New York's City Council has plans for "taking cars off the road and shrinking the carbon footprint of city operations." (WNYC)

A pedestrian died Saturday along stretch of Florida road where the sidewalks are often closed or under repair, "forcing walkers, bikers and even people in electric wheelchairs from a safe path and onto the busy three lane highway." (WSTP)

Turns out you can't put up signs along London streets that say "Women should please walk along this side of the road only." (Independent)

The safest cabbie in New York is driving his taxi to New Orleans, to accept the award for "international driver of the year." (NY Daily News)

Families of three people who died on the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed over Ukraine are suing the Ukraine government for negligence. (AP)

California is providing rebates to low-income drivers who buy or lease electric cars. (LA Times) 

General Motors is recalling more than 200,000 cars because the parking brake can pose a fire hazard. That's on top of the almost 15 million cars the company has recalled this year, due to faulty ignition switches. (Reuters)

A tour through the awkward and genius world of celebrity car commercials, with Tina Turner and Jean Claude Van Damme. (BBC)

Meet the first 3D-printed car. (Washington Post)

The navigation system built into the Uber app for drivers "seems to take less-than-ideal routes." (NPR)

To reduce fatigue in truckers, a pilot program in Minnesota scans rest stops and tells drivers which parking lots along their routes have safe places to pull over. (Star Tribune) 

A stretch of I96 re-opens Michigan today, and thousands of people walked the roadway Sunday before cars took it over.  

Must be 10,000 people @96Fix. More still coming. Opens tomorrow morning for rush hour pic.twitter.com/yIuh0zhEG2

— Kirk Steudle (@transpoman) September 21, 2014