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
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 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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