Today’s Headlines
Why Cities Are Increasingly Skeptical of Streetcars (Minneapolis Post) The Rising Prevalence of Single People in American Cities (WaPo) The Eight Most Important Rail Projects That Amtrak Can’t Afford (CityLab) City Observatory: To Reduce Income Gap, Reduce Housing Segregation Colorado Wants to Borrow $3.5 Billion to Pay for Roads (Denver Business Journal) Poll Finds Strong Opposition … Continued
8:56 AM EDT on April 22, 2015
- Why Cities Are Increasingly Skeptical of Streetcars (Minneapolis Post)
- The Rising Prevalence of Single People in American Cities (WaPo)
- The Eight Most Important Rail Projects That Amtrak Can’t Afford (CityLab)
- City Observatory: To Reduce Income Gap, Reduce Housing Segregation
- Colorado Wants to Borrow $3.5 Billion to Pay for Roads (Denver Business Journal)
- Poll Finds Strong Opposition in Dallas to Trinity Toll Road (Morning News)
- Cyclists Share Their “Near Miss” Stories with The Guardian
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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