Today’s Headlines
The New Yorker on “the Failed Dream of the Easy Commute” Discussions Begin About a Tax to Pay for Light Rail Expansion in Phoenix (Arizona Republic) Informal Survey of Downtown Dallas Finds Widespread Opposition to Trinity Toll Road (Morning News) The Fight to Save Aiken, South Carolina’s Bike Lane (WRDW) Ohio Budget Would Increase Transit Funding by … Continued
9:00 AM EST on February 10, 2015
- The New Yorker on “the Failed Dream of the Easy Commute”
- Discussions Begin About a Tax to Pay for Light Rail Expansion in Phoenix (Arizona Republic)
- Informal Survey of Downtown Dallas Finds Widespread Opposition to Trinity Toll Road (Morning News)
- The Fight to Save Aiken, South Carolina’s Bike Lane (WRDW)
- Ohio Budget Would Increase Transit Funding by a Pittance (Tim Kovach via Streetsblog Ohio)
- New York Times Takes a Critical Look at Child Risk Claims Posed by Nationwide Super Bowl Ad
- London Mayor Boris Johnson Plans to Bury Urban Roads (City Metric)
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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