内容摘要：“It’s better here for me and my family,” the 47-year-old woman said. “It took us a while to adjust, but I’m glad we moved here.”

“It’s better here for me and my family,” the 47-year-old woman said. “It took us a while to adjust, but I’m glad we moved here.”

Cars drive on Grand Boulevard in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Cars drive on Grand Boulevard in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Trump’s transportation department cited delivery and emergency vehicles among its concerns.When University of Iowa researchers surveyed first-responders in Cedar Rapids, their study published last year found no noticeable difference in response time when a road diet was in place. There was, however, a perceived need to educate drivers about what to do when an ambulance uses a center turn lane to pass.Cara Hamann, an associate professor of epidemiology who co-authored the study, said she recalled no major examples of EMS or fire trucks being unable to get through.

“The road diet didn’t cause a level of congestion that slowed them down,” she said.A man crosses 31st Street in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A man crosses 31st Street in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Even before Trump, skepticism was growing in some red states.She said the nonbinary singer was “very courageous.”

“If Russia couldn’t participate, why should Israel?” she said.The European Broadcasting Union, which runs Eurovision, pointed out that Israel is represented by broadcaster KAN, not the government. It has called on participants to respect Eurovision’s values of “universality, diversity, equality and inclusivity” and its political neutrality.

Associated Press journalists Hilary Fox and Kwiyeon Ha in Basel and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State