Today’s Headlines
Columbus, Ohio, Wins $50 Million U.S. DOT “Smart City” Grant (TechCrunch) Sprawling Waukesha, WI, Gets Approval to Pipe Water Out of Lake Michigan (Chicago Tribune) Seattle Times Says City Must Improve Transit, Then Argues for More Studies Philly to Paint Mile-Long Mural on Street Median to “Spruce Up” for DNC (Inquirer) Minneapolis Trying to Beat Portland … Continued
8:59 AM EDT on June 22, 2016
- Columbus, Ohio, Wins $50 Million U.S. DOT “Smart City” Grant (TechCrunch)
- Sprawling Waukesha, WI, Gets Approval to Pipe Water Out of Lake Michigan (Chicago Tribune)
- Seattle Times Says City Must Improve Transit, Then Argues for More Studies
- Philly to Paint Mile-Long Mural on Street Median to “Spruce Up” for DNC (Inquirer)
- Minneapolis Trying to Beat Portland in Bike Infrastructure (Guardian)
- MA Lawmaker Intros Bill to Allow Boston to Lower Speed Limit (Statehouse News — Paywall)
- No Major Meltdowns on Day Two of Metro’s Safety Closures (WaPo)
- Denver’s Bike Lane Plan: Underfunded and Behind Schedule (9News)
- San Diego Okays Nine Miles of Bike Lanes Downtown (KPBS)
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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