Today’s Headlines
U.S. DOT Issues Memo Highlighting Accomplishments During the Obama Era Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Releases Plan to Pedestrianize Parts of the Center City (Guardian) NY/NJ Port Authority Fined $400 Million for Chris Christie’s 2010 Canceling of ARC Tunnel (NY Post) San Diego, Struggling to Shift Away From Driving, Falling Short of Climate Goals (KPBS) Study: America’s … Continued
8:59 AM EST on January 11, 2017
- U.S. DOT Issues Memo Highlighting Accomplishments During the Obama Era
- Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Releases Plan to Pedestrianize Parts of the Center City (Guardian)
- NY/NJ Port Authority Fined $400 Million for Chris Christie’s 2010 Canceling of ARC Tunnel (NY Post)
- San Diego, Struggling to Shift Away From Driving, Falling Short of Climate Goals (KPBS)
- Study: America’s “Net Tax” on Gas Has Fallen by Half Since 2003 (Carbon Brief)
- Legislation Allowing Vote on $5.5 Billion MARTA Expansion Introduced in Georgia (Curbed)
- Trying to Make Nice With Cities, Uber Releases Traffic Data (WaPo)
- Vox: Why Uber Lost $2.2 Billion in Nine Months
- AP: Call Uber and Lyft “Ride Hailing” Apps, Not “Ride Sharing”
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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