Today’s Headlines
NHTSA Steps Up Efforts to Block Drunk Drivers from Starting Cars (Legal Examiner) FTA Launches Civil Rights Probe Into Cleveland’s Public Square Closure; Mayor Obstinate (Plain Dealer) Curbed: By 2020, Car Ownership Could Decline in the U.S. Due to Automated Shared Fleets San Diego’s SANDAG Lied to Voters About How Much Money Tax Would Generate (Voice of San … Continued
8:59 AM EST on February 8, 2017
- NHTSA Steps Up Efforts to Block Drunk Drivers from Starting Cars (Legal Examiner)
- FTA Launches Civil Rights Probe Into Cleveland’s Public Square Closure; Mayor Obstinate (Plain Dealer)
- Curbed: By 2020, Car Ownership Could Decline in the U.S. Due to Automated Shared Fleets
- San Diego’s SANDAG Lied to Voters About How Much Money Tax Would Generate (Voice of San Diego)
- NIMBYs in New Haven Worry Traffic Calming Project Will Bring Gentrification (Independent)
- Bloomberg: Trump’s Infrastructure Plan, Focus on Splashy Projects, Misses the Problem
- Study: Stockholm’s Congestion Pricing Has Helped Children with Asthma (Inside Science)
- Large Cities Are Starting to Put EMTs on Bikes to Reach Victims Faster (WaPo)
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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