Today’s Headlines
Obama’s Six-Year Transportation Plan Would Allow Tolling of Existing Highways (The Hill) Bloomberg Reports on Seattle’s Ongoing Tunnel-Boring Troubles Pedestrian Injuries Falling in New Jersey (NJ.com) Seattle Times: Mayor Ed Murray Is “The Real Bike Mayor” How to Respond to a “Pedestrian Safety” Campaign That Blames Victims (Vox) Do High Construction Costs Explain Resistance to Funding U.S. … Continued
8:56 AM EDT on April 1, 2015
- Obama’s Six-Year Transportation Plan Would Allow Tolling of Existing Highways (The Hill)
- Bloomberg Reports on Seattle’s Ongoing Tunnel-Boring Troubles
- Pedestrian Injuries Falling in New Jersey (NJ.com)
- Seattle Times: Mayor Ed Murray Is “The Real Bike Mayor”
- How to Respond to a “Pedestrian Safety” Campaign That Blames Victims (Vox)
- Do High Construction Costs Explain Resistance to Funding U.S. Transportation? (Urban Institute)
- How Houston Metro Has Been Evolving to Meet the Growing City’s Needs (Houstonia)
- Speed Limits for Pedestrians Proposed on Wet Pavement in the U.K. (ETA)
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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