Today’s Headlines
Feds Announce Major Funding for Amtrak’s NJ-NY Gateway Project (CBS Local, Railway Age) NHTSA Issues Recommendations for Driverless Cars (The Hill) Can a Makeover Turn Around America’s Busiest Transit Center? (Good, Atlantic Cities) In California, High-Stakes Trial for High-Speed Rail (Mercury News) Study: Commuters Want Better Transit Tech (Wired) Montgomery County, MD, Gets New Planning … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:07 AM EDT on May 31, 2013
- Feds Announce Major Funding for Amtrak’s NJ-NY Gateway Project (CBS Local, Railway Age)
- NHTSA Issues Recommendations for Driverless Cars (The Hill)
- Can a Makeover Turn Around America’s Busiest Transit Center? (Good, Atlantic Cities)
- In California, High-Stakes Trial for High-Speed Rail (Mercury News)
- Study: Commuters Want Better Transit Tech (Wired)
- Montgomery County, MD, Gets New Planning Director (GGW), Makes Way for New Bike Lanes (Patch)
- Bike Portland From Copenhagen: Kids are the Real Test of “Bike-Friendly” Cities
- Light Rail Prospect Stirs Debate in Tampa (Tampa Bay)
- A Call for “No Child Left Inside” at CNU 21 in Salt Lake (Next City)
- Check Out Condensed Maps of the World’s Largest Bike-Sharing Systems (Quartz)
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