Today’s Headlines
Driving in America Is Most Dangerous for People With Less Education (WaPo) Gallup: People Living in Cities Most Optimistic About Economy States Taking on More Debt to Build Highways (FHWA) Dallas Staff Blame Peds for Skyrocketing Deaths; Council Member Blames Design (Morning News) Anti-Light Rail Measure Will Stand in North Carolina Until at Least Year End (WRAL.com) CityLab: … Continued
8:58 AM EDT on October 1, 2015
- Driving in America Is Most Dangerous for People With Less Education (WaPo)
- Gallup: People Living in Cities Most Optimistic About Economy
- States Taking on More Debt to Build Highways (FHWA)
- Dallas Staff Blame Peds for Skyrocketing Deaths; Council Member Blames Design (Morning News)
- Anti-Light Rail Measure Will Stand in North Carolina Until at Least Year End (WRAL.com)
- CityLab: North Carolina State Lawmakers “Preempting” Local Governance
- Las Vegas Needs Light Rail on the Same Corridor It Built a Monorail (LV Review-Journal)
- California to Offer Poor Drivers With Unpaid Traffic Fines Amnesty (ABC News)
- Scientists: Biking or Walking to Work Is the Best (Gizmodo)
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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