Today’s Headlines
Atlanta Mayor: No Highway Funding Without More Support for MARTA (AJC) Fort Lauderdale Streetcar to Cost $53 Million More Than Planned (Sun Sentinel) Some States Changing Tax Forms to Conform With New Federal Transit Benefit, Some Aren’t (Bloomberg) Seattle City Council Weighs Buying Out Non-Profit Pronto Bike-Share (City Living Seattle) Following Pushback, Hoboken Scraps Plan for … Continued
8:57 AM EST on February 17, 2016
- Atlanta Mayor: No Highway Funding Without More Support for MARTA (AJC)
- Fort Lauderdale Streetcar to Cost $53 Million More Than Planned (Sun Sentinel)
- Some States Changing Tax Forms to Conform With New Federal Transit Benefit, Some Aren’t (Bloomberg)
- Seattle City Council Weighs Buying Out Non-Profit Pronto Bike-Share (City Living Seattle)
- Following Pushback, Hoboken Scraps Plan for Protected Bike Lane (Hudson Reporter)
- City Metric: The Case Against Shared Space
- Cleveland Transit Chief Appeals to State for More Funding (WKYC)
- Wired: SF’s Tech Bus Controversy Really About Housing
- Sprawl Made Recent Round of Flooding in St. Louis Worse (Ars Technica)
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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