Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Lawsuit Filed to Stop Albuquerque Bus Rapid Transit, Construction Slated to Start August 1 (NextCity) Downtown LA Streetcar to Average Just 6 MPH (LAist) City Observatory: Share Price of Urban Living on the Rise Insurance Industry Alarmingly Clueless About Pedestrian Safety (Claims Journal) Will the People Who Need Transit Most Be Pushed Away in Seattle? (The … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

8:59 AM EDT on June 30, 2016

Lawsuit Filed to Stop Albuquerque Bus Rapid Transit, Construction Slated to Start August 1 (NextCity)
Downtown LA Streetcar to Average Just 6 MPH (LAist)
City Observatory: Share Price of Urban Living on the Rise
Insurance Industry Alarmingly Clueless About Pedestrian Safety (Claims Journal)
Will the People Who Need Transit Most Be Pushed Away in Seattle? (The Stranger)
Boulder, Colorado: Another City That Has Created an Affordable Housing Crisis (Forbes)
At 60, Interstate Highway System Facing Big Challenges (Wired)
CityLab: Don’t Worry, Google Isn’t Going to Take Over Public Transport in Columbus
A Mixed-Use Meijer Store in Grand Rapids (Mlive.com)

Angie Schmitt

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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