Today’s Headlines
D.C. Mayor Lays Out Action Plan for Transportation (WaPo, GGW) Feds, MARTA Move Forward With Study of New 8.8-Mile Light Rail (Atlanta Biz Journal) Texans Get Their First Glimpse of Potential High-Speed Rail Routes (Dallas News) LA Times Thinks More Parking Is the Answer for City’s Rail Stations In the Southwest, Long-Term Plan Emerges for … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EDT on October 22, 2014
- D.C. Mayor Lays Out Action Plan for Transportation (WaPo, GGW)
- Feds, MARTA Move Forward With Study of New 8.8-Mile Light Rail (Atlanta Biz Journal)
- Texans Get Their First Glimpse of Potential High-Speed Rail Routes (Dallas News)
- LA Times Thinks More Parking Is the Answer for City’s Rail Stations
- In the Southwest, Long-Term Plan Emerges for Passenger Rail Network (RT&S)
- Some Conservatives Embrace Urbanism, But Then It Falls on Deaf Ears (Grist)
- D.C. to Baltimore at 311 MPH? (Bloomberg)
- Small Towns Fail to Capture Millennials (NPR)
- Will Norfolk’s Light Rail Connect to Neighborhoods, or Run Along Highways? (GGW)
- Americans More Concerned About ISIS and Ebola Than a Much Bigger Threat: Traffic Violence (Vox)
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