With schools closed, restaurants shut down and an economic collapse looming in the early weeks of the pandemic, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced plans to stop ticketing, booting and impounding cars throughout the city to ease financial pressures on Chicagoans. © Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS A city parking […]
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT)- Many small businesses have taken a hit financially due to the pandemic. One people might not think about as often is a travel service, like Cortez Transportation Company in Topeka. The company relies heavily on weddings and parties for its business, but the drivers haven’t seen many […]
NANTUCKET — For close to 90 years, Young’s Bicycle Shop on Broad Street has been renting bicycles to island visitors and residents. Young’s was founded in 1931 by current owner Harvey Young’s grandfather, who shares the same name, and has been run by the family ever since. “My father bought it […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a good news, bad news situation for a growing number of people who want to get into bicycling. Demand for bicycles is through the roof in some places, including the Joplin area, but supply has tanked because the virus forced manufacturers around the world to […]
Coronavirus has affected everyone in the world, but it may come as a surprise of how it has impacted the cycling industry. Bike shops are currently seeing a boom in sales, as people are rushing to get on two wheels. The biggest sellers are entry-level bikes that are mainly used […]
CHICO, Calif. – Local bicycle shops are facing a shortage due to gyms being closed and people finding alternative ways to exercise. “It has gotten progressively more frustrating because the demand has not dropped,” said Manager at Amain Cycling, Evan Billman.” There are still people looking for bikes.” Billman said […]
Even before the pandemic struck, public transit agencies in major U.S. cities suffered from declining ridership. In many cases, COVID-19 has exacerbated those losses. How to stem them in the short term and calibrate public transit’s role as technology advances are two questions at the forefront for transportation planners as […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — After years of being part of a future that never quite arrived, the coronavirus pandemic has put U.S. online car sellers on the map. Now comes a race to spend vast sums on digital commerce platforms specifically designed to handle auto sales. Without deep pockets, many […]
(This August 3 story corrects name of Vroom CEO in paragraph 12 to Hennessy) FILE PHOTO: Brandon Parrum, general manager of CarMax’s Des Moines store, shows off one of the many vehicles that customers can arrange to buy online and collect at the store using “contactless” curbside pickup, a service […]
Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) — Changing habits because of the coronavirus has been forcing more people outside, some of those folks have turned to biking to spend their free time. That in turn made bicycles a hot commodity during this pandemic and Cadence 120 […]
State education officials on Wednesday released a set of bus transportation guidance for local officials to use as they put together fall school plans. The “core health and safety practices” in the document sent by Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley to superintendents and local school officials […]
Using public transportation like the subway, a train, or bus can make it difficult to social distance or avoid touching shared surfaces. A person wearing gloves on a public subway train in New York City. Braulio Jatar/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media/Getty Images Due to subway line closures and fewer people on the […]
LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) – Dan Block has been getting quite the workout lately. Block owns the D & S Bicycle shop on Walsingham Road in Largo and the coronavirus has him working overtime. “It’s been crazy. Everybody that got their bikes that they’ve had them,” said Block, who fixes those […]
Photo: Manheim Manheim is providing discounts and waiving fees for its online services to support customers and clients whose businesses are impacted by closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a release from Manheim. The company said it was waiving the sell fee on its Manheim Express […]