Today’s Headlines
Houston Chronicle: Floods Are “a Disaster by Design” Inexpensive Cities Have One Thing in Common — Sprawl (WSJ) 10 Things to Know about U.S. DOT’s Congestion Metrics (Transportation for America) Louisville Mayor Lays Out Tax Options to Support $1.4 Billion Transportation Plan (Courier-Journal) Great Lakes Leaders Hash Out Water Policy With Big Implications for Sprawl (Journal Sentinel) Las … Continued
8:59 AM EDT on April 21, 2016
- Houston Chronicle: Floods Are “a Disaster by Design”
- Inexpensive Cities Have One Thing in Common — Sprawl (WSJ)
- 10 Things to Know about U.S. DOT’s Congestion Metrics (Transportation for America)
- Louisville Mayor Lays Out Tax Options to Support $1.4 Billion Transportation Plan (Courier-Journal)
- Great Lakes Leaders Hash Out Water Policy With Big Implications for Sprawl (Journal Sentinel)
- Las Vegas Delves Into Discussion About Building Light Rail (LV Sun)
- Transit-Oriented Development in Pittsburgh “a Mixed Success” (Post Gazette)
- Drivers and Pedestrians Both Confused by Missouri “HAWK” Signal Crosswalks (ABC17)
- Tampa Bay Region Okays $900 Million Transportation Project List (Tampa Bay Times)
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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