Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Despite Critics’ Assertions, MBTA Spending in Line With Other Agencies, Finds Boston Globe MBTA Set Ridership Records Last Year Even With Weather-Related Problems (WBUR) Congestion Charges Have Helped Reduce Crash Rates 40 Percent in London (Guardian) Kaid Benfield Attempts to Untangle Competing Trends in Driving and Sprawl (HuffPo) Evidence Real-Time Transit Data Increases Ridership (CityLab) Supreme Court … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

9:00 AM EDT on March 10, 2015

Despite Critics’ Assertions, MBTA Spending in Line With Other Agencies, Finds Boston Globe
MBTA Set Ridership Records Last Year Even With Weather-Related Problems (WBUR)
Congestion Charges Have Helped Reduce Crash Rates 40 Percent in London (Guardian)
Kaid Benfield Attempts to Untangle Competing Trends in Driving and Sprawl (HuffPo)
Evidence Real-Time Transit Data Increases Ridership (CityLab)
Supreme Court Rules in Amtrak Case (WaPo)
CityLab: New Rail Safety Reforms a Step in the Right Direction
Globe and Mail: Governments Pushing Large Projects Have Incentives to Low-Ball the Cost
Florida Governor Denies He Banned the Term “Climate Change” (Governing)

Angie Schmitt

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.

Today's Headlines

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