Today’s Headlines
Obama: Self-Driving Cars Must Work for Everybody (Wired) DC Officials Consider 1-Cent Sales Tax to Fund Metro (WaPo) Anthony Foxx: Next President Will Formalize Self-Driving Car Rules (Detroit News) NJ Transit a “Cautionary Tale of Neglect” (NYT) Milwaukee Receives Federal Grant to Study Streetcar Extension (Urban Milwaukee) Study: Suburbs Will Get Denser, More Diverse (Curbed) San … Continued
8:56 AM EDT on October 13, 2016
- Obama: Self-Driving Cars Must Work for Everybody (Wired)
- DC Officials Consider 1-Cent Sales Tax to Fund Metro (WaPo)
- Anthony Foxx: Next President Will Formalize Self-Driving Car Rules (Detroit News)
- NJ Transit a “Cautionary Tale of Neglect” (NYT)
- Milwaukee Receives Federal Grant to Study Streetcar Extension (Urban Milwaukee)
- Study: Suburbs Will Get Denser, More Diverse (Curbed)
- San Francisco Lets Guerrilla Bike Lane Stay Put (CityLab)
- The People Who Need Transit Most Have the Least Access to It (Treehugger)
- Congestion in Vancouver Area Shopping Mall Parking Lot Traps Drivers for 4 Hours (Daily Hive)
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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