Today’s Headlines
10,000 Low-Income Workers Travel Daily to Detroit Suburbs With No Transit (Free Press) Slate: Why It’s So Hard to Punish Drivers Who Kill Pedestrians Pennsylvania “Flush With Cash” for Transportation After 2013 Tax Hike (Associated Press) The Man Who Single-Handedly Started Dallas’s Highway Teardown Momentum (D Magazine) Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed Says Streetcar Numbers Actually … Continued
9:04 AM EST on February 24, 2015
- 10,000 Low-Income Workers Travel Daily to Detroit Suburbs With No Transit (Free Press)
- Slate: Why It’s So Hard to Punish Drivers Who Kill Pedestrians
- Pennsylvania “Flush With Cash” for Transportation After 2013 Tax Hike (Associated Press)
- The Man Who Single-Handedly Started Dallas’s Highway Teardown Momentum (D Magazine)
- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed Says Streetcar Numbers Actually Above Projections (MyFoxAtlanta)
- The Unpopular Eastern Corridor Highway Project in Cincinnati Might Be Officially Dead (Enquirer)
- States Scrambling to Make Up for Declining Federal Highway Funding (Baltimore Sun)
- Houston Public Media: More Money Can’t Fix Texas’s Road Problem
- Governing: Boston’s Transit Troubles Can Be Traced to Weak State Support
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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