Today’s Headlines
Joe Biden to Visit Detroit to Cheer Upgrades to the City’s Bus Service (Free Press) Financials at Washington’s WMATA Increasingly Unsustainable (GGW) NY and NJ Governors Ask Feds to Pay for Half of Rail Tunnel to Manhattan (The Hill) For Riders, Transit Proximity to Work More Critical Than to Home (CityLab) Nashville Neighborhood Ditching Cars for … Continued
9:00 AM EDT on September 17, 2015
- Joe Biden to Visit Detroit to Cheer Upgrades to the City’s Bus Service (Free Press)
- Financials at Washington’s WMATA Increasingly Unsustainable (GGW)
- NY and NJ Governors Ask Feds to Pay for Half of Rail Tunnel to Manhattan (The Hill)
- For Riders, Transit Proximity to Work More Critical Than to Home (CityLab)
- Nashville Neighborhood Ditching Cars for a Week (Nashville Business Journal)
- Congress About to Fail on Budget but “May Pass Highway Bill” (Inforum)
- Interbike Under Fire for Allegedly Sexist Materials (Gear Junkie)
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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