Today’s Headlines

9:00 AM EST on February 13, 2015

Office Workers Prefer Walkable Environments to Sprawl by a Wide Margin (Better Cities & Towns!)
CityLab: America's "Infrastructure Crisis" is Really More of a Maintenance Crisis
Lincoln, Nebraska, Finalizes Plans for Two-Way Downtown Protected Bike Lane (Downtown Lincoln)
Fallen Pedestrian Forced to Travel Dangerous Route to Work (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Jacksonville Transit Ridership Up Dramatically After System Revamp (Daily Record)
Leading Twin Cities Planners Trying to Settle Local Streetcar Debate (Star Tribune)
Dallas Magazine Calls the Planning Process Around the Trinity Toll Road a "Charade"
Governing Reports That Houston Is Becoming Increasingly Urban

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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