Today’s Headlines
- Seattle Leaders Seem Determined to Continue Highly Troubled Highway Tunnel Megaproject (NextCity)
- CBO: Highway Trust Fund Will Be Short $168 Billion by 2025 (AASHTO Journal)
- Next City: Urbanists Everywhere Should be Fighting for D.C. Statehood
- Columbus, Ohio, to Get Protected Bike Lane (Columbus Underground via Streetsblog Ohio)
- Broward County, Florida, Commits to Doubling Bike Lanes to 280 Miles (Sun-Sentinel)
- More People Fly or Bike to Work in Anchorage, Alaska, Than Take Transit (Alaska Dispatch News)
- Denver "Being Transformed" By Metro-Wide Transit (Denver Post)
- Bikes Account for One-Sixth of Traffic in Central London (Road.cc)
- The Secret to Portland's Economic Success (City Observatory)
- What!? Spanish Officials Propose Holding Pedestrians to Sobriety Standards (Wine Spectator)
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