Today’s Headlines
Amtrak Exec: Delays Could Become the Norm for NJ Commuters (NYT) Despite Recent Crashes, Train Derailments Are Declining (Brookings) Apparently There’s No Plan B for the Red Line in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun, AP) Vox Breaks Down Where America Went Wrong on Transit A Decade After Katrina, the Gulf Coast Waits on Passenger Rail (AL.com) Bike-Share’s Everywhere Now, … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:54 AM EDT on August 11, 2015
- Amtrak Exec: Delays Could Become the Norm for NJ Commuters (NYT)
- Despite Recent Crashes, Train Derailments Are Declining (Brookings)
- Apparently There’s No Plan B for the Red Line in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun, AP)
- Vox Breaks Down Where America Went Wrong on Transit
- A Decade After Katrina, the Gulf Coast Waits on Passenger Rail (AL.com)
- Bike-Share’s Everywhere Now, But Does It Make Any Money? (Fortune)
- Does D.C. Have the Crash Data It Needs to Pursue Vision Zero? (WAMU)
- Indianapolis Plans for BRT in 2018 (WTHR)
- Miami Developers Face Catch 22: Build TOD in a Car-Centric Town (Daily Biz Review)
- A Day in the Life Aboard Detroit’s People Mover (Model D)
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