Today’s Headlines
House Approves Short-Term Transportation Funding Extension (NYT) Texas Needs One More Senator’s Vote to Debate a Texting While Driving Ban (KXAN) Cities Where It’s Faster to Walk and Bike Than Drive (Scientific American) Amazon Now Using NYC Subway System for Prime Deliveries (Consumerist) Walk Score Ranks 154 Cities on Bike-Friendliness (Redfin) NFL Applying Pressure to … Continued
8:56 AM EDT on May 21, 2015
- House Approves Short-Term Transportation Funding Extension (NYT)
- Texas Needs One More Senator’s Vote to Debate a Texting While Driving Ban (KXAN)
- Cities Where It’s Faster to Walk and Bike Than Drive (Scientific American)
- Amazon Now Using NYC Subway System for Prime Deliveries (Consumerist)
- Walk Score Ranks 154 Cities on Bike-Friendliness (Redfin)
- NFL Applying Pressure to St. Louis for Stadium Money (AP)
- How Suburban Are America’s Big Cities? (FiveThirtyEight)
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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