Today’s Headlines

9:05 AM EST on February 6, 2015

Despite Metro-North Crash, Train Travel Still Much, Much Safer Than Driving (The Week)
Governing: How Social Media is Being Used to Improve Transit Service and Reliability
Metro Times: A History Lesson in How Detroit Transit Got to be So Troubled
Did the Koch Brothers Just Doom America's Infrastructure to Decay? (American Prospect)
Rents in Austin Finally Stabilizing After Boom in Apartment Construction (American Statesman)
London Bans Dangerous Trucks to Protect Cyclists (BBC)
Global Economic Report Finds a Link Between City Safety and Prosperity (CitiScope)
Columbus, Ohio, to Host National Safe Routes to School Conference in April (SRTS)

Angie Schmitt is the author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and the former editor of Streetsblog USA.

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