Today’s Headlines
- Transit Ridership on the Rise as Transit Funding Declines (NYT)
- New Year Brings New Wave of Texting While Driving Bans (LATimes)
- Reabsorbing the Exurbs, the Real Estate Equivalent of Composting (Grist)
- The Transport Politic Highlights New Transit Projects Opening in 2012
- Six Urbanist Trends for 2012 (MyUrbanist)
- Harvard’s Ed Glaeser: Living in Cities Is Simply Better (The European)
- It’s the City Life: Why New Yorkers Have Highest Life Expectancy in the U.S. (Good)
- New Law in California Gives Cities More Freedom to Reduce Speed Limits (Landline)
- Alcohol Ignition Locks Successful in Hawaii, Now Standard in Oregon (Republic, Statesman Journal)
- Albuquerque, NM Gave in to Politics, Stopped Using Red Light Cameras (KRQE)
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