Today’s Headlines
Train Defects Shrink Philly Regional Rail Fleet By a Third, Problem May Last Months (Inquirer, USA Today) A Parade Float That Threatens to Kill Cyclists — It Happened Last Weekend in Columbus (Dispatch) Detroit to Host Series of Open Streets Events Beginning This Fall (Downtown Detroit) Who Likes the Gas Tax? Young People, People Who Don’t Drive, Low-Income People (Frontier Group) CA Gas Stations … Continued
8:57 AM EDT on July 6, 2016
- Train Defects Shrink Philly Regional Rail Fleet By a Third, Problem May Last Months (Inquirer, USA Today)
- A Parade Float That Threatens to Kill Cyclists — It Happened Last Weekend in Columbus (Dispatch)
- Detroit to Host Series of Open Streets Events Beginning This Fall (Downtown Detroit)
- Who Likes the Gas Tax? Young People, People Who Don’t Drive, Low-Income People (Frontier Group)
- CA Gas Stations Want Warning Label About Cap-and-Trade But Not Global Warming (E&E News)
- Suburban Des Moines Residents Pack Meeting to Oppose Sidewalks (Register)
- Op-Ed: NC Lawmakers Have Blocked Light Rail, So Durham-Orange Should Do BRT (News Observer)
- The Radical Feminist Cycling Gang Fighting Gentrification in L.A. (L.A. Weekly)
- The Troubling Decline of Street Hockey in Canada (Guardian)
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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