Today’s Headlines
States Watch as Oregon Pioneers Road-Usage Fee (Transport Topics, Roll Call) Why Are Developers Still Building Sprawl? (Atlantic) 86 Cities Have Accepted DOT’s “Mayors’ Challenge” for Safer Streets (Fast Lane) Shouldn’t Phoenix Focus on Transit Instead of Freeways? (Phoenix Biz Journal) Bus Start-up Bridj to Launch in DC This Spring (WaPo) Boston Globe Rides the Rails … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:00 AM EST on February 25, 2015
- States Watch as Oregon Pioneers Road-Usage Fee (Transport Topics, Roll Call)
- Why Are Developers Still Building Sprawl? (Atlantic)
- 86 Cities Have Accepted DOT’s “Mayors’ Challenge” for Safer Streets (Fast Lane)
- Shouldn’t Phoenix Focus on Transit Instead of Freeways? (Phoenix Biz Journal)
- Bus Start-up Bridj to Launch in DC This Spring (WaPo)
- Boston Globe Rides the Rails With MBTA’s New Point Man
- Better Bikeways Coming to Maryland (GGW)
- Center for American Progress Tackles Heritage Foundation’s “Tortured Logic” on Transit
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