Today’s Headlines
Five Pedestrian Deaths in South Jersey Over the Past Week, Only One Set of Charges (South Jerseyist) Pittsburgh to Launch 50-Station Bike-share System This Spring (Post-Gazette) Gas Is Dirt Cheap Because Americans Don’t Pay the Real Costs of Driving (CityLab) Cities Growing Faster Than Suburbs (Just Barely), Planetizen Reports Urban Office Rents Up Almost 20%, … Continued
9:12 AM EST on January 6, 2015
- Five Pedestrian Deaths in South Jersey Over the Past Week, Only One Set of Charges (South Jerseyist)
- Pittsburgh to Launch 50-Station Bike-share System This Spring (Post-Gazette)
- Gas Is Dirt Cheap Because Americans Don’t Pay the Real Costs of Driving (CityLab)
- Cities Growing Faster Than Suburbs (Just Barely), Planetizen Reports
- Urban Office Rents Up Almost 20%, Compared to Just 3 Percent in the Suburbs (MarketWatch)
- No Charges for Episcopal Bishop Who Killed Baltimore Cyclist (Baltimore Brew)
- A Republican Senator Tells Better Roads He Won’t Rule Out a Gas Tax Hike
- Low Gas Prices Could Mean Less Highway Money for Texas (KVIA 7)
- A French Traffic Engineer Lays Out How to Apply “Level of Service” to Pedestrians (Urban kchoze)
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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