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The debate over transportation equity has heated up, given the sharp change in transit-rider demographics once the COVID-19 pandemic took most whiter and wealthier riders off of buses and (especially) trains. Not everyone sees eye-to-eye on just what transportation equity means. But a growing number of social-justice activists, urbanists and even transit-industry professionals now argue that making transit free for all should be one of the tools used to make transportation more equitable. Kansas City, Missouri, got the conversation started at the end of 2019 when its city council voted to make the city’s bus system fare-free. Now some of the nation’s biggest transit agencies are wondering whether to make mass transit free for everyone, or at least a lot cheaper to ride than it is now.
Two pedestrians were killed Friday when they were struck by vehicles in separate accidents, bringing Volusia County s total fatal accidents involving a pedestrian this year to 10.
Nova Road was shut down for a few hours in the Daytona Beach area near LPGA Boulevard about 3:45 p.m., and a man was pronounced dead at the scene, Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Kim Montes said.
Troopers said the victim, a 40-year-old Daytona Beach resident, was underneath a trailer loaded with a car, possibly working on it in the 1200 block of Linda Lane, according to the FHP report. A 78-year-old Daytona Beach Shores man got into the RV the trailer was hooked up to and began driving.