Today’s Headlines
Fare Hikes, Service Cuts, and Layoffs in DC Metro’s Proposed Budget (WaPo) American Prospect: For Next President, Greatest Challenge Will Be Infrastructure Will the Private Sector Take Over Public Transit? (Atlantic) Slate: How Zillow Ruined Urban Planning’s “Trick or Treat Test” Car-Centric Atlanta Considers New Transit Future (CS Monitor) Virginia Beach Faces Major Light Rail Vote … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:00 AM EDT on October 31, 2016
- Fare Hikes, Service Cuts, and Layoffs in DC Metro’s Proposed Budget (WaPo)
- American Prospect: For Next President, Greatest Challenge Will Be Infrastructure
- Will the Private Sector Take Over Public Transit? (Atlantic)
- Slate: How Zillow Ruined Urban Planning’s “Trick or Treat Test”
- Car-Centric Atlanta Considers New Transit Future (CS Monitor)
- Virginia Beach Faces Major Light Rail Vote (Pilot)
- LA May Actually Have Something to Teach Bay Area About Transit (LA Times)
- Baltimore Is Building Up Its Bike Infrastructure (Baltimore Sun)
- Miami Streetcar Scaled Back Due to High Costs, Pushback (Miami Herald)
- Designing the Perfect Urban Intersection (Wired)
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